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  • Activist Dr Shubhangi Karmakar, who advocated for yes no vote in the family and care referendums, sitting on a rock with the sea in the background.

    Activist Dr Shubhangi Karmakar advocates for YES NO vote in Irish referendums

    Ireland, News, Opinion, Top News 8 Mar 2024

  • This article is about the care referendum. In the photo, activist Rosaleen McDonagh smiling at the camera.

    Disability rights activist Rosaleen McDonagh shares the importance of considering intersectionality in upcoming care referendum

    Ireland, News, Opinion 6 Mar 2024

  • The image shows activist Ranae Von Meding with her wife and two of her children. In this article Ranae outlines why she will vote yes in the upcoming referendums. In the image, the family are posing behind a life-sized multicoloured picture frame. The frame has signs on it which read "love is love", "Still Not Equal" and "Family is Everything.

    LGBTQ+ family rights activist shares the importance of voting YES in upcoming referendums

    GCN Current Issue, Ireland, Opinion, Top News 29 Feb 2024

  • A still from queer film Saltburn. It shows Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan as their characters sitting side by side on a couch. They both wear white dress shirts and black dickie bows.

    Just how queer is Saltburn?

    Entertainment, Film, Opinion 28 Feb 2024

  • The image shows a split screen of three of the black queer tv characters featured in this article. On the left is a woman with long dreaded hair. She is wearing a tight orange and black jumpsuit and a silver eye mask. In the middle is a man leaning one arm on a desk. He is bald and is smiling. He is wearing a white shirt and black tie. On the right is a trans woman with a curly bob haircut. She is wearing a denim jacket and has her arms folded across her chest.

    9 queer Black TV characters we can't get enough of

    News, Opinion, Top News, TV 23 Feb 2024

  • Photograph of person's wrist wearing rainbow pride bracelet representing an LGBTQ+ ally

    6 easy ways to be a good LGBTQ+ ally

    Community, News, Opinion, Top News 30 Jan 2024

  • The image shows part of the cover of the first issue of Identity, an LGBTQ+ periodical. On the left of the image is a grey scale negative image of a man's face with his eyes closed. on the right, written sideways from bottom to top are the letters T I T Y. They are written in bright red in a bubble handwritten font.

    Remembering Identity, one of Ireland’s first LGBTQ+ periodicals

    Entertainment, News, Opinion, Top News 22 Jan 2024

  • A still from Unseen. It shows two people embracing underwater.

    Queer Cork dancer highlights hidden disabilities in new multimedia performance Unseen 

    Ireland, Opinion 22 Dec 2023

  • Young queer man shares how reality TV helped him come out and find community

    GCN Back Issues, Opinion, TV 20 Dec 2023

  • This article is about the power of language when coming out. The image shows hands holding a cardboard sign, reading "NON-BINARY IS BEAUTIFUL". In the background are other signs and flags.

    Irish non-binary butch lesbian shares the power of language when coming out

    Community, GCN Back Issues, GCN Magazine, Ireland, Opinion

  • The image is a screen shot from an RTÉ Prime Time Documentary. It shows a headshot of a man wearing a blue shirt and wine coloured tie. He is sitting in front of a window with blurred out trees behind.

    Doctor condemns misrepresentation on RTÉ Prime Time transgender healthcare episode

    Health & Science, News, Opinion, Top News, TV 19 Dec 2023

  • The image shows a split screen portrait of Pradeep Mahadeshwar who wrote a poem about racism in Ireland. The image shows two portraits of Pradeep. in both he is looking away to the left with his head slightly tilted upwards. The image on the left is saturated in Blue, the image on the right is saturated in red.

    Powerful poem highlights impact of racism on queer people of colour in Ireland

    Community, News, Opinion, Top News 8 Dec 2023

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