2009
July 2009, Issue 235
40 years after the Stonewall Riots ushered in the gay rights movement and annual Pride celebrations across the planet, Brian Finnegan questions whether the fable that Judy Garland's death sparked the whole thing off is rooted in the truth.
Although Colm Tóibín's latest novel, Brooklyn, features little in the way of gay characters, it's deeply connected to the author's own sexual orientation, as Denis Kehoe finds out.
With her film Identities, Vittoria Colonna set out tell an individual story about gender diversity in Ireland. But soon it turned into an exploration of the state of the trans nation, as Ciara McGrattan discovered.
Lovers of bondage, S&M and other kinks are rarely portrayed as spiritually evolved, but Dossie Eaton, who is coming to Dublin for a special workshop, begs to differ. Conor O'Hara meets a woman with one foot in fetish, the other in tantra and a whole world of sexuality in between.
Plus: Shirley Temple Bar shoots the breeze with Brian Dowling, Bourgeois and Maurice set Dublin Pride alight and Team Ireland gear up for the Second World Outgames in Copenhagen.
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