The OUT for the Weekend crew are looking forward to the weekend which promises to be the biggest yet. Taking place in a variety of venues around the city, this years festival line up is more diverse this year and offers something for everyone of all ages, genders and persuasions.

Kelis will be taking to the stage of the George on the 23rd of June as part of the pride celebrations being held by The George, which is the Official Pride Club of 2011.

Run entirely by volunteers, OpenFM hopes to return for a second year (14th June to 13th July). This won’t be possible, however, unless they can raise funds over the next 24 hours. Please donate if you can!

This theme of this years Pride Dyke Night is The Speakeasy, so expect all things 1920s! Hosted by the ever amazing Phil T. Gorgeous, this is set to be an unmissable night!

It’s Pride season! The month’s festivities kick off with Cork’s parade on the June bank holiday Sunday. And June concludes with Dublin’s parade on Saturday, the 25th. And there’s plenty happening in between, before and after – these highlights are very Kerry, Cork and Dublin-centred, so let us know in the comments if we’ve left anything out!

If you’re thinking what to do with yourself this summer, you could do a hellova lot worse than head to the Big Apple for Pride. Around 300,000 people are expected to attend. Imagine! Heritage of Pride, which organises LGBT events in New York City to commemorate and celebrate the 1969 Stonewall Riots, will present a week-long roster of activities that will showcase NYC as one of the most popular LGBT destination in the world.

I caught up with Pamela and Peter from The Trouble Is to interview them about the band, and we at Gaelick towers are able to exclusively reveal that they will be playing at the Pride Night Party (Delerium) in the Purty Kitchen on the 25th of June.

Glee continues to hurray the gay week in, week out. I particularly liked this week’s episode and how it managed to show all the stages of coming out, with every one of the queer characters at a different point along their journey. And Kurt continues to be the most fabulous person on the gogglebox.

Dublin Pride are looking for suggestions for this year’s Grand Marshall of the parade. Whoever gets the honour will be included in list of revered previous Grand Marshalls; Lydia Foy, Senator David Norris, Toni Walsh and Alibhe Smyth. Personally, I think Panti should be our Grand Marshall as she’s is every other day of the year, but then again, maybe it should be someone new.

To quote a great movie, I said BRrrr, its cold in here Whilst the snow looked lovely from the apartment window at the weekend, the reality of skating to work this morning avec every winter woolie sunk in and I didn’t like the snow quite so much. Hence I keep quoting Bring it On.

Just when you are ready to give up on the summer and get your winter head on, up pops Limerick Pride to get you back into those shorts one last time – rain be damned!

Limerick Pride 2010 runs from Sept 5th to Sept 12th, so why not get out there and get involved?

Well, can you Adam-and-Steve it, folks, it’s been thirteen whole days since the last Gaelick news round-up? So, what has been happening in that intervening period? Lesbian LOLs? Sapphic surprises? Dishing the dykey dirt? Read on!

Pride parades are all about getting out there and expressing yourself. In some parts of the world that takes more courage than usual. As a result it was wonderful to see so many take part in EuroPride 2010 which was hosted by Warsaw.

If you’re not attending today’s Dublin Pride celebrations, why not tune in to the final of the UEFA Championship, where Ireland’s under-17 women’s squad takes on Spain? Kick-Off: 12:30pm Irish time.

Here at Gaelick towers, we care about our readers, and we also want to make sure that You. Are. Well. With a rake of Pride festivals, we feel it is important that you go forth entirely prepared. So we’ve come up with a list of essential items that you will need. If we’ve left anything out, let us know in the comments!

Yes, Panti and pals are pulling out all the stops for Pride: street party, food including barbecue, extra bars, extra staff, extra urinals for the lads. But what about the ladies? No extra cubicles for the leslies are being provided, but you can get some funnels to do the job.

What does family mean to you? Help Dublin Pride’s WRF2 project by giving your answer – and be in with the chance to win a fantastic prize!