Through dirty looks or sly comments, which were thrown my way and uttered either in the halls of my secondary school or by teammates of an all girl’s football team (half of whom I have spotted inside The George), I was made to feel ashamed.

This Sunday, May 6th, BBC is back and playing host to Lady Kier and NYC-based art party crew ‘Pussy Faggot’.

Next Monday 7th May marks the start of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2012. Taking place in various locations across the City, plays can be enjoyed in venues such as the Teacher’s Club and Cobalt Café until May 20th.

Fancy seeing Uh Huh Her, Wallis Bird, B*tch and more? Fancy dancing 72 hours away with the sexiest women in Europe? Welcome to GO.GO.

Great LGBTQ films. Lesser known LGBTQ films. Monthly screenings. Followed by open discussion. In a beautiful, cosy, fully wheelchair-accessible, 66 seater cinema in Temple Bar (one of Dublin’s best kept secrets!). And there’s free tea and coffee.

Morning good people of Gaelick! I hope with the title of this post I have done to you what
click_here did to me during the week and resurrected the Whigfield tune from the 1990s. It became an earworm for the day, thanks click! In case you don’t remember or were too young let me refresh your memory

Come dance with me in Ireland! Namely, the capital, because the 2012 Programme of the Dublin Dance Festival has just been launched, and we are dusting off the old tap shoes and picking the best of a packed two weeks of all sorts of cool moves.

Kasey Collective is an exhibition of work in aid of The Kasey Kelly Trust Fund. Kasey Kelly is a one year old girl who has been diagnosed with AT/RT Cancer (Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor). She is currently in Crumlin Hospital, but the life saving treatment she needs to survive is not available to her here in Ireland.

Congratulations to Ursula and Laura, our Bitches Be Crazy competition winners! They each win for themselves free entry-plus-one to this month’s Bitches Be Crazy, taking place on Friday, 24th February. Which, let’s face it, is an amazing prize, yesno?

We do love our monthly trips to Bitches Be Crazy. For reasons which are.. best described by the name of the club.. And now, with thanks to those lovely Bitches, we have two free passes to give away to one lucky winner! For free! Gratis! Sweet F.A.! Nada! Read on for details

Vickey Curtis and Una Mullally host an evening of spoken word performance in Outhouse next Thursday, 23rd February at 8pm. All are welcome! This is an open invitation to anyone who does it, listens to it or just has a general interest in it.

Best. Lesbian. Valentine’s. Day. Ever.

Well, reader, if you are anything like this author then the increasing proximity to Valentine’s Day is probably inciting an incendiary cynicism within you. But even the hardest of hearts will fail to resist the warmth and intimacy of I ♥ Alice ♥ I, a piece of documentary theatre that is deeply personal, funny and refreshing

Rock Hudson was the first public “face” of AIDS. Diagnosed in 1984, he disclosed his diagnosis in 1985 and made the general public reconsider the notions they had about who could get AIDS. A new play by Aidan Harney, Hollywood Valhalla, explores the time between Hudson’s diagnosis and his disclosure: how the first public figure with AIDS decided to tell the world.

This week DIT’s LGBT Society will be holding DIT Rainbow Week 2012. With workshops galore, there’ll be speakers on trans issues, a homophobia discussion and a coming out workshop – not to mention bake sales and quizzes.

The Bliss Festival, which will be Ireland’s first sex festival, invites us all to ‘Come join Ireland’s first Sexual Health, Freedom and Pleasure event’. Oh ok then…

Following the heads-up about our appearance on yesterday’s installment of Near FM’s Pride Time, now you can listen back to the programme in all its glory! (Scarlet for me, scarlet for me ma for havin’ me, etc.)