For a reality TV show about a queer subculture, RuPaul’s Drag Race has achieved extraordinary success, writes Scott McKinnon.

Ladies and gentleman, Ireland’s Cute Cúig

Mary Robinson’s presidency was both defining and redefining; it showed what the office could be, and hadn’t been, writes Mary Morrissy

Ed Power rounds up the best non-World Cup activities to help keep you sane while everyone else dons their soccer pundit hat and becomes an offside rule expert.

If you would rather watch anything other than football for the month of June, here's everything new and return on Netflix.

Antony Cotton drew inspiration from a friend’s experiences with homelessness for his performance in the upcoming storyline, writes Georgia Humphreys.

Last Tuesday, we did it again. A State apology was offered to a previously marginalised group of Irish society who had suffered terribly, an, in some cases, fatally, at the hands of a brutally cruel system.

Dublin Oldschool reflects some of the filmmaker's own experiences in the Irish rave scene, writes Esther McCarthy.

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WALKING into the room where the gentlemen of Queer Eye are hanging out is an onslaught. If that doesn’t sound like fun, then let me assure you that it really is, writes Laura Harding.

In the words of the Jonathan Van Ness, can you believe?

The stars from the Netflix hit show, known collectively as the Fab Five, visited the small town of Yass down under and hit it off with locals.

I have a new man in my life. My husband is unfazed. He is used to such declarations, such as my effusive outpourings about the DPD man, the postman, and Thor, writes Lindsay Woods.

A group holding graphic anti-abortion banners held another protest outside the Rotunda Hospital last night.

An activist who asked a Christian bakery to make a cake bearing a pro-gay marriage slogan did nothing wrong, his lawyer told the UK's Supreme Court.

The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated in refusing to make a "gay cake" have said the law "extinguishes" their consciences.

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The perception that male ice skaters are gay — and the hostility behind it — is the sport’s dirty little secret, writes Abigail Jones

The debate about homophobia in Ireland took centre stage in the Dáil with Fine Gael TD Jerry Buttimer describing how he was “beaten, spat at, chased, harassed and mocked because of who I am”.

Drag artist Miss Panti’s impassioned speech about the vulnerability of gay people in society has exposed shallowness of the same-sex marriage debate