A retired teacher has settled a High Court action for damages over claims that he was allegedly bullied and subject to homophobic incidents while he was employed by a Vocational Education Committee.

A detective was asked in court if he smoked cannabis himself. The question was posed during the drugs charges trial of an Englishman living in West Cork for 35 years.

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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

Love in the digital age means you can whisper sweet nothings via text, tweet, Facebook, email, or any of the dozen digital methods of communication colonised by teenagers.

Kya deLongchamps overcomes her loathing of dolls to admit the collector value of even relatively modern models.

YOU’VE got to hand it to Kathleen Lynch. She tells it like it is. A few people in politics have tried that approach, to transient public and media acclaim and speedy career dissolution. But the minister of state at the Department of Health always gets a free pass.

Theatre: Twelfth Night

Recent examples of racism in Spain and the US give us nothing to be smug about here

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he was “proud” to march for his country in the St Patrick’s Day parade in New York, despite criticism by gay rights campaigners who protested at yesterday’s event.

William Burroughs’ centenary occurs this month. The West Cork-based photographer John Minihan recalls meeting the controversial author in London

The Queer Dictionary is the first of its kind in Ireland with over 100 words and terms translated.

I reached maximum ice-pop consumption during the heatwave, writes Lindsay Woods.

Trump may ethnically identify as “white”, but his skin is categorically and scathingly portrayed as orange.

In case you haven't been on Twitter today, it is National Avocado Day.

ROCK stars are now rocking on for decades, but not without making a few allowances for age.

If you’ve been watching Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’ lately then Jonathan Van Ness has definitely captured your heart and in a new video he's talking all things ‘L’art’.

ACTOR and playwright Karen Cogan is revisiting her roots in Drip Feed, her self-scripted one-woman show set in Cork’s gay scene in 1998.