On Monday, 11th October 2010, National Coming Out Day will be celebrated at various events throughout the United States. Does Ireland need to do the same?

Gay people have been dying from unnatural causes for a very long time. Notably the AIDS epidemic killed thousands of gay men before the straight world starting even talking about it. Nobody cared until straight people started dying. Violent crimes directed at non gender conforming people have been killing trans people, lesbian, bisexual and gay [...]

Calling all non-recluse lesbians! Your social group needs you – head along to the Running Amach fundraiser this Saturday! Running Amach is the online women’s group organising scene and non-scene events around Ireland. Find your nearest lesbian jazz fans, tennis group, film aficionados and much more!

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!

Katie Taylor fights China’s Cheng Dong in the final of The Women’s World Boxing Championships tonight. She should win. Having said that, Dong is a tall south-paw with a long reach so it won’t be easy. Dong will also be aware of how close Underwood came in the semi-final and what tactics she used. All in all, tonight’s should be a fascinating final. And you can see it live!

Thankfully, The Runaways delivers. From start to finish, the movie brings to life the story of the girls that soon became the stuff of legend. It’ll have you whirling your head around screaming along to your favourite anthem and leave the cinema with the full intention of forming the best band in the world.

What is it about a badge and a gun? Why does the combo turn the most intellegent, articulate of women into a drooling mass of hormones? Tough female cops are hot, there’s no way round it. They are, and hopefully will ever be, a stable of TV. But who is your favourite? Vote and let us know who your favourite TV cops are.

Tracy is on the phone to her mammy who says that she can’t come to the big 30th birthday. Tracy is broken-hearted. While on the phone, there’s a knock on her door and guess what? It’s mammy!!! YAY!!! Actually it’s a tester-sized mammy, you have to send away for the full-size.

I’m getting used to it, but there is a fine line between acknowledging that single parenthood is bloody hard work and acting like raising my son, the greatest joy in my life, is some sort of tragedy.

There Will Be Rain is the brainchild of writer and actor Marc McCabe, who was one of the quartet in the play Working Late, one of the biggest successes of this year’s Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. When they finished the week-long run of Working Late, Marc approached the play’s writer, director and producer, Rebecca Walsh, to see what she thought of his script.

The Emmy’s last night were all about Archie and Glee for this Gaelick writer. Was I disappointed? Or did our bisexual character (Kalinda in The Good Wife) and lesbian actress (Jane Lynch) do the do? Plus, what about the gay guys, Neil Patrick Harris and everything else in Glee? Read on if you want to know, or wait until this evening and it’ll be on RTE 2 at 9.30pm.

This year, Glee has been nominated in most Primetime Emmy award categories, but insiders agree that they probably won’t win any of the big ones. Glee is an Emmy anomaly in that it’s youth-led; based in high-school with unknown actors. Most of the acting nominees have been around for years.

I don’t know about you but when I heard that there was going to be a Scottish L word, I squealed. Hands up if you’re into the ladies and you didn’t get wee kneeed every time Simone Labib aka Helen Steward opened her mouth to speak in Bad Girls. There’s something about that accent. Well the wait is almost over.

I am on a rant. Feel free to click away, but my ardour is up and my goat has well and truly been gotten. I’m so angry that I just allowed a very badly-constructed sentence to pass my editor radar. Why? Where the HELL are the Irish women in sport? Not on the effing telly anyway!

So now that we’re well acquainted with the Ireland Rugby World Cup team – and the first two rounds of matches are complete – let’s see how things stand.

To comply with the judgement on the Lydia Foy case, a gender recognition advisory group has been set-up, inviting comments and input from the general public on issues such as legal recognition and the right to marry. There is an open call until Friday, September 17th, to have your say on the upcoming legislation.

An estimated 4000 to 5000 LGBT people and their loved ones (not including cute puppies) marched for marriage equality in Dublin’s city centre this afternoon.