This is one busy weekend around the country, including the Gay Prom, festive highlights, the return of Bitches Be Crazy, regular youth group meetings, and the start of 16 Days. Clear the diaries, folks!

This Friday, 25th November, don your glad rags and join 300 members of Ireland’s LGBT community for the annual Gay Prom which takes place in the luxurious surroundings of the Mansion House Dublin at 8pm.

It’s that time of year again! The BeLonG To Gay Prom 2011 takes place on 25th November next in the Mansion House.

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 limos are booked, the fake tan applied and the gúnas are hanging on wardrobe doors all over the country. But while the traditional Debs may be an unforgettable rite of passage for this country’s heterosexual young people it can provide a serious social challenge for many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) school goers.

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!

Coming to terms with being gay is tough. Not the gay part, the coming to terms part. Hey, who am I talking to here? Y’all know of what I speak. But the times they are a changing. Check out the article from the Irish Times mag this week. No longer should anyone feel they are the only gay person in the world.