Gay teen issue heralds change at magaze – The Irish Tim

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. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).

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IRISH GAY DADS

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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.

GAY COMMUNY NEWS

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. 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.

GAY TEEN ISSUE HERALDS CHANGE AT MAGAZE

“The next few months will be cril for lbians and gay men this untry, ” the ont-page opn clared, as GLEN lnched the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform. Elsewhere there was a feature about the film Torch Song Trilogy and a round-up of ternatnal gay news. ‘Holy Homophobia!

’ shouted the ver headle of the new Gay Communy News, beneath which appeared a story about the ban on Irish lbians and gay men marchg the New York Cy St Patrick’s Day Para.

For the first time Gay Communy News moved the directn of a magaze, wh a specially missned full-lour ver photo (by Niall Sweeny and Eamonn Doyle), at the centre of which sat Panti, her first ever ver-shoot. Insi there was a feature about a kiss- at the Turk’s Head on Parliament Street (formerly the gay Parliament Inn), which had stigated a door policy banng gay people, and there was a special three-page sectn for women lled ‘Lbian Life’.