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Coming of age tale Big Boys screens at this year's GAZE LGBTQIA Film Festival

10 must-see movies at this year's GAZE LGBTQIA Film Festival

GAZE returns this August bank holiday and will screen 110 films from across the world...

'Pride is a time to wonder at the distance we've travelled'

To kick off this year's Pride celebrations, we present the text of a moving speech delivered by LGBTQ+ activist and archivist Tonie Walsh at the …

Opinion and Analysis • 01 Jul

Andrew Scott is Tom Ripley in the new Netflix mini-series (Pic: Netflix)

Is Andrew Scott's Ripley mesmerising or charmless?

Fresh from All of Us Strangers (2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix's new series Ripley, a miniseries based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 …

opinion • 17 hrs

Pregnant with a Drag Queen - Veda talks to RTÉ Arena

Ireland's most formidable drag artist and HIV activist, Veda, on their new film Pregnant with a Drag Queen.

RTÉ Arena • 29 Feb

Seán Hewitt on exploring the "emotional territory" of queer love

The Rooney Prize winner speaks about the importance of language in translation, revelling in the ordinariness of queer love and restoring queer identity and sexuality …

Books • 06 Dec 23

The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth - read an extract

Be gay. Solve crimes. Take naps.

Books • 05 Nov 23

The incomparable Xnthony returns to Irish stages this October and November (Pic: LUXXXER)

Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry: Xnthony on his hit musical

Performance artist Xnthony introduces his acclaimed pop musical, Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry, a wickedly funny exploration of English colonialism in Ireland, which takes …

Theatre • 10 Oct 23

'Egg is an invitation to let loose, have a laugh and tap into something wonderful, queer and a little bit feral.'

Only yoking: meet Dublin's spiciest DIY queer cabaret collective

Pea Dinneen and Aoife O'Connor give a cracking account of their latest all-inclusive live show, Egg: The Proclamation of The Irish Republegg, coming to the …

Cabaret • 06 Sep 23

Something For The Weekend: GoblinsGoblinsGoblins' cultural picks

Acclaimed performer GoblinsGoblinsGoblins is part of Dublin's spiciest queer collective Egg, who present Egg: The Proclamation Of The Irish Republegg at this year's Dublin Fringe …

Something For The Weekend • 16 Aug 23

'Party Scene is not about teaching any moral lessons' (Pic: Luca Truffarelli)

'Chemsex is a complex subject matter' - POPBABY on Party Scene

Celebrated theatremakers Phillip McMahon and Philip Connaughton of THISISPOPBABY introduce their acclaimed high-octane dance theatre work Party Scene.

Dance • 24 Jul 23

Zainab Boladale's new short film Worthy will play at GAZE 2023

10 films to see at GAZE - Dublin's LGBTQIA film festival

Greg Thorpe, Festival Director of the GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival gives RTE Culture his Top 10 picks from this year's programme.

Film • 20 Jul 23

In The Cards: Shauna Higgins (L) and writer, director and star Leah Moore (R)

In The Cards: filmmaker Leah Moore's 'celebration of queer joy'

In The Cards is a new short romantic comedy celebrating queerness, disability and working class lives, written and directed by Dubliner Leah Moore.

Film • 11 Jul 23

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