What is your root? The reason for your sexuality, the moment that changed you into a quare forever? Yes, that is my tongue in my cheek. However, anyone who has seen But I’m a Cheerleader will get the comic reference to your root. So what is yours? Was it the moment you saw kd lang on the cover of Vanity Fair? Was it when you picked up a hammer for the first time and thought, “I may be 2, but this fits”? Was it when you decided that poetry was how you believed all emotions should be expressed, but only when embroidered on homemade wicker baskets?

The queer community has accomplished so much when it comes to acceptance. But when it comes to the trans, cross dressers, gender queer and just plain butch, there’s so much more to accomplish. Society may well be ready for two pretty girls in white dresses to walk down the aisle, but the wider society is still remarkably hateful when it comes to people whose gender isn’t obvious to the casual observer.

…I’m not saying Melissa didn’t withdraw from family life. I’m not saying her cheating is a total impossibility. But what I’m saying is that Tammy is already making clear her lack of a deep, abiding relationship with reality. She’s lying. She’s trying to permanently separate her children from their mother.

P!nk turning up unannounced at Pantibar this week and then squeezing in with the punters on the stairs to watch the show just goes to prove how down to earth she is and how much we love her. Herself and hubby, Carey, were relaxed and chatty with everyone until word got out and a stampede of lesbians trampled across the Capel St bridge to have a gaze and a lick (possibly).

There was an fascinating section in yesterday’s Irish Times celebrating 40 years of ‘The Women’s Movement’. Although the title sounds like some uncomfortable euphemism to monthly contractions, the section itself is an excellent read. So, what has changed in the last 40 years?

They are a dying breed, getting rarer and rarer as the years go by. Approximately ten percent of Irish people are redheads, even though non-Irish people tend to think that we’ve all got flowing titian locks and cute freckled faces. Maybe that’s why, in Ireland, gingers get such a hard time, considered to be less than attractive by some. However, some of the world’s most beautiful women have flaming locks.

Ireland is famous for one gay Wilde, but is becoming more and more famous for a straight one. Olivia Wilde has just been voted Uibher a hAon in AfterEllen’s Hot 100.

GCN is in trouble. The latest edition tells us just how much financial difficulty the publication is in. I know that GCN has been criticised for various reasons, but I think that GCN is too important to fail. It’s part of Irish LGBT history. What are your memories and experiences of GCN?

Get geared up for a very special trip to the thee-ah-ter, because America’s First Lady of stage, little screen and big screen is coming to Dublin this June! Stockard Channing will play the redoubtable Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic’s new production of The Importance of Being Earnest in the Gaiety. Do we love her? Let’s count the ways!

If you’re Irish and/or gay and you don’t know who David Norris is, well then that must be one secluded rock you’re living under. And, in light of his being honoured in San Francisco last week – including comparisons with Harvey Milk – everyone should know him! He’s gone international!

I’ve been putting off writing this. How do you sum up someone like Noel Walsh in a few words? But, it’s Irish AIDS Day so I can feel him kicking me in the arse to get it done Noel may have passed away but he continually kicks me in the arse. Some friend eh? Yep, some friend.

It’s March which only means one thing to the gay calander – Aunty Panti is back with the Alternative Miss Ireland. However, busy as she is she still took time to answer a few questions for us Gaelickers!!!

We met up with those heroines of the gay world, Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, recently, for a candid chat about the inequality we still suffer. “Homosexuals are told, “That’s enough…No, no. No marriage for you, pal.” I mean, it’s unbelievable, outrageous. It’s utterly outrageous”.