Hooray! It’s marching season in the north, where members of a loyalist old boys’ club drag up and sashay across the region, all to honour their Dutch homosexual overlord, William of Orange.

Last week, Hal geeked about words. Today, because I now feel free to express my geekiness, I will geek about acronyms. There’s even a chart.
The reason I’m thinking about acronyms right now is because of Law & Order SVU’s recent episode called “PC” featuring Kathy Griffin as a lesbian activist. You can read lots about [...]

Some people head to the pub and, after a few pints, have changed the world, cured poverty and remembered the theme music to Macgyver. Other people sit down and come up with a constructive kick-ass idea and then actually follow it through. This how Queer Spraoi came about.

LoveAction is a collective which is promoting equality for same-sex relationships, diverse families and young gay people. TONIGHT, make Love at War!

February 2010 sees LGBT History Month being celebrated for the first time in Ireland, at Tallaght County Library. There will be talks on LGBT literature and history, a screening of Gus Van Sant’s “Milk”, and an ongoing exhibition curated by Tonie Walsh of the Irish Queer Archive.

The Dáil is to resume its debate on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 this Wednesday, 27th January 2010. (It is scheduled to take place at some point between 11:29am and 1:30pm, although first to be debated in that time-slot will be two other bills.) A Live Blog has again been set up, and we hope to embed the stream to the live Oireachtas video to allow readers to follow the debate.

The Dáil is to resume its debate on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 this Thursday, 21st January 2010. (It is scheduled to take place at some point between 10:30am and 3:30pm, although first to be debated in that time-slot will be the Adoption Bill.) A Live Blog has again been set up, and we hope to embed the stream to the live Oireachtas video to allow readers to follow the debate.

You may or may not have yet heard about the BBC poll earlier this week, which asked the question, “Should homosexuals face execution?” No doubt as a result of worldwide outrage at the question, the Beeb has, of course, since quietly changed the title to “Should Uganda debate gay execution?” That’s significantly different, but [...]

The Portuguese government yesterday approved proposed legislation to remove references to gender in respect of marriage. Yes, Portugal looks set to soon remove any prohibitions on same-sex marriage. The proposals, however, exclude such couples from being considered for adoption, with some saying that this enshrines further discrimination.

Knowing and learning about LGBT history is hugely important: Stonewall was a milestone, but not the beginning. It was an important milestone on a long journey. But what was life like for 20th century gays before 1969? “Before Stonewall” is a wide-ranging documentary which sets out to explore the answer to this question, through first-hand accounts and original footage, from a US perspective.