The sun is back! After the best part of 72 hours worth of rain, enough to make me order that ark off Ikea, the sun makes a welcome return. Right, news and views. Let’s start with our favourites, The Catholic Church, never one to shy away from making headlines.

It’s been quite a while since our last round-up of what’s been happening here at Gaelick Towers. (Personally, I blame the hectic madness of Pride and the Civil Partnership Bill.) Let’s remedy that, shall we?

Morning! Today’s post is brought to you courtesty an epic CP Bill-passing sized hangover. Some of us Gaelickers had arranged a meeting on the same evening as the bill is passed and sure one would have to crack open a bottle of champagne or 3 to mark the historic occasion. Thank Tayto its Friday!

While its not my usual day to fill your minds with insignicant celebrity stories about Megan Fox and her interest in all things Sapphic, put the kettle on and sure we’ll have a look at the stories making headlines over the last week or so. Things are hectic in Gaelick HQ at the mo so I’ve been drafted from behind the mainframes to fill you on in all the goings-on gay wise!

If the modern world is youth-obsessed, the modern gay world takes that to the extreme. You could go around thinking that there isn’t a gay, lesbian, bi or trans person over the age of 50, such is the lack of visibility. These are the people who created the very idea of the gay community that we now we enjoy, yet they are nowhere to be seen, eclipsed by those youngsters reaping the benefits of their fight.

Sometimes I go shopping for clothes and I just really wish the mens t-shirts fit me. It doesn’t matter what you do it it, it just never seems to fit properly. Thankfully, there is a company out there that caters for women who want to dress outside how the high street believe we should.

Morning ladies and a Happy Pride! Hope ye are all set for the dkye night tonight. It always amazes me how many lesbians show up for this one night and then disappear off the scene for the rest of the year. Its like someone lifted a big rainbow rock and out come the girls. Not that I am complaining, ye are all fabulous!

Morning Gaelickers! For those of you resident in Dublin, are ye all set for Pride? A full list of events courtesy of Tabula Rasa can be found here The influx of lovely lesbians has begun already, was in the Front Lounge last night and there were women everywhere.

Recently in the news was the shocking story of Ambah Young, an 18 year-old mother from Australia, who intends to go under the knife to “feel young again”. There are so many things wrong with that statement, but I think the one question that surfaces at the discovery of this story is this: Does she know just how much this decision could completely, irreversibly change her life?

Ugh. Today’s post is brought to courtesy of a strong cup of coffee, followed by an equally strong cuppa tea. Your webmaster was out last night in Pantibar to mark Gooner’s bday. I thank the lovelybar in Pantibar for the state of me this morning. However, its not so bad as to stop me browsing the web and bringing you some stories from near and far.

Anyone who’s ever been to a gay bar could probably have told you the conclusion of this study.
Researchers analysed health surveys from 67,000 Massachusetts residents and found that gay men are slimmer than straight men and lesbians are heavier than straight women. Overall, they found that 14% of gay men in their sample were obese, [...]

Ladies, it’s time to launch a new feature on Gaelick. Each Friday we’ll be having a competition giving away something we found under our desks. Joking! the prize shall be something your heart has been desiring, yearning for with a passion. We hope.

At last the weekend is upon us! But what have you missed in Gaelick-land this week? Here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve been yakking about.

Whilst we have an idea of female beauty pushed up on us by the media which tells us we are only beautiful if we are stick insects with a perfect complexion, we grow to learn that women are gorgeous in all kind of ways. Ladies are, after all, like a fine wine, we get better with age.

I kick started a discussion on my own personal FB page yesterday about the word “frape”.
For those who aren’t aware, frape is the slang term generally used for the scenario when someone uses another person’s facebook account while pretending to be that person eg if I left my laptop unattended and a friend of mine [...]

Perhaps it’s because I’ve spent much of my life in the midst of those for whom their assigned sex has been problematic or worse, but it strikes me as obscene how often we are asked what exactly it is we have in our pants, and how we all consider it our absolute right to know [...]

After reading Brenda Power’s article in GCN, and seeing the opinion of many others on the Tallyman blog, and following on from Click Here’s piece from the weekend on “Uppity Gays”  I was struck by the following thoughts.