When the next issue of Ireland's leadg gay magaze hs newsstands on the 25th of this month, will be eded for the first…
Contents:
- "NO IRISH NO GAY" GRAFFI LURGAN TREATED AS HOMOPHOBIC HATE CRIME
- IRISH GAY DADS
- GAY COMMUNY NEWS
- GAY TEEN ISSUE HERALDS CHANGE AT MAGAZE
"NO IRISH NO GAY" GRAFFI LURGAN TREATED AS HOMOPHOBIC HATE CRIME
GCN: Gay Ireland News & Entertament. The stori the men this issue share wh rears some of the most breezy they have ever featured, cludg tal of boozy nights out on the gay scene, timate nights , and even tal that highlight some of the good moments to e om this panmic era.
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IRISH GAY DADS
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GAY COMMUNY NEWS
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Schwulissimo Gay-Magaz. In 1988 Ireland got a send TV channel, the Molly Malone statue was unveiled on Grafton Street, David Norris won his se agast the Irish ernment at the European Court of Human Rights (which led the existence of laws Ireland crimalisg nsensual gay sex to be illegal) and Ireland hosted the Eurovisn Song Contt for the third time. And om a ltle office at the top of the Hirschfield Centre Dubl’s Temple Bar, GCN was published for the very first time, wh the missn of beg central to the evolutn of Ireland’s gay muny.
Wh a radil look created Niall Sweeney, (who would go on to bee the signer behd inic queer Irish brands, Alternative Miss Ireland, Powrbubble and Pantibar) the very first issue of Gay Communy News was marked by s attentn to whe space, wh s masthead and headl nng down the si of the pag, rather than on top. Eded by Tonie Walsh and Cathere Glendon, featured articl about cross-drsg, Ireland’s ongog crimalisatn of sexual nduct between men, and a quiz about what rights rears enjoyed, or mostly didn’t, as gay and lbian cizens of Ireland.
GAY TEEN ISSUE HERALDS CHANGE AT MAGAZE
Seven issu , and Gay Communy News got a new look, also signed by Niall Sweeney. Wh the word ‘gay’ clearly picked out a black box the ver’s top left-hand rner, we were out and proud.
The ver story was about the sger Sylvter, who was crilly ill wh Aids-related plitns (he died December 1988), while the centre pag held a report on a lbian and gay Kiss-In at Dáil Eireann. Jt over a year later, signer Annabel Konig reimaged the brand, wh the word ‘gay’ expandg to bee a logo self.