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Can Downton Abbey survive without The Dowager Countess of Grantham ?
Ten years ago (the late and great) Dame Maggie Smith was a guest on The Graham Norton Show and he asked her if she was glad that the hit TV series Downton Abbey was finally over. Yes, she said very quickly, and gave a hilarious reason for her opinion, which you can see here :…
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AER LINGUS ‘s unwavering support for DUBLIN GAY PRIDE is something wonderful to behold
As the overgrown playground bully whom we know as The Orange Man in The White House turns his wrath to our LGBTQA+ community, we stand by horrified as so many Companies who were our allies have hastily withdrawn their support. There have been so many in the US and so we want to stop…
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Its been 27 years since the first (and last) DUBLIN DYKE MARCH …. but they are BACK
\There’s a break of some 27 years between the first ever Dublin Dyke March and the second one that took place this past Saturday, Alice Linehan, one of the organisers and Editor of GCN, addressed the crowd to thank participants. “The community came out in force for the return of the Dublin Dyke March! To…
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Orbán and The Orange Man are both learning what a big set of balls the queer community now have
It’s been over 60 years since the first US state decriminalized homosexuality, but it took until Lawrence v. Texas, in 2003, for all remaining laws against same-sex sexual activity to be invalidated. Just one year later in 2004 Massachusetts began to offer same-sex marriage, and in 2015 after Obergefell v. Hodges, all states were required…
