Yesterday saw the launch of a wonderful new inititive, the ‘LGBT Diversity Programme’. A programme that strives to coordinate several LGBT groups around the country and to “facilitate LGBT organisations and activists to collectively mobilise”.

Due to be broadcast on Monday, Growing Up Gay is a two-part documentary series charting the lives of LGBT young people in Ireland. Tonight, two of its stars will appear on The Late Late Show. Tune in!

Next month, from 9th-18th April, sees Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week by BeLonG To, the organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people in Ireland. The Week aims to tackle homophobic bullying and encourage support from our straight friends and peers.

The new website for the BeLonG To Youth Group was launched in their offices on Parliament Street on Monday March 15th. I attended in my professional capacity along with many other representatives of various LGBT and other youth interest groups from around Ireland. The launch was very well attended, and the Director of BeLonG To, Michael Barron, opened proceedings and launched the site….

Hooray! The lovely people at BeLonG To have a brand spanking newly re-vamped website at www.belongto.org

You often hear people say that they won’t go to lesbian nights, and when pressed it can often be due to bad past experiences at other nights. However, fear not. CaKe is relaxed, fun, and you will always get chatting to some lovely randomers in the smoking area out the front. So give it a shot!

Friday night saw the inaugural Gay and Lesbian Awards (GALAS) take place in Dublin, hosted by journalist Una Mullalley and television presenter Derek Mooney. Twelve awards were presented to individuals, organisations, community groups, and businesses from across the island of Ireland. Read on to find out the nominees and the winners!

Now you can do a Helen Mirren (and who wouldn’t like to?), by posing in a charity calendar. Not just any old thing either but the first ever Irish Lesbian Charity Calendar. What? It warrants capitals. The ladies on the left have nothing to do with it, I just like the picture. Are you complaining?

Just writing the headline for this article makes my heart sink. It conjures up visions of kids and teens ignored, picked on and/or beaten up in that most tyrannical of places; school. What can be a more damning illustration of a society than young, terrified people getting no support from their elders?