The blurb for the BeLonG To Gay Prom promised anyone who attended a “chance to have the big, fat, gay debs you always wanted” and they really came good on those words! Gay Prom was held in the Radisson Blu hotel in Dublin on the October bank holiday weekend.

On this bank holiday weekend, there’s only one place to be on Sunday night: BeLonG To’s Gay Prom 2010 fundraiser. Online sales have now closed, but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door.

Fairy God Mother and Ireland’s number one Drag Queen, Veda, has teamed up with Irish Gay Youth Charity, BeLonG To, to bring you the second instalment of Ireland’s official Gay Prom for gay boys and girls.

The excitement about the second outing of the BeLonG To Gay Prom has been steadily growing for the past couple of weeks and promises to be one of the LGBT events of the year. Gay Prom will be taking place on Sunday 24th October in Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8 which is a bank holiday weekend, so you have no excuses not to be there!

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?