BOYZONE LAUNCHES ‘GAY’ VIDEO
Boyzone are apparently the first ‘boy band’ (aren’t they all grown men now?) to feature a gay couple in their music video as singer Stephen Gately gets sensual with a male actor in their latest single ‘Better’. In the video the other members of the band can be seen getting close with [...]
LITTLE BRITAIN GOES STATESIDE
Don’t you just hate it when folk get all PC? It was not music to our ears to hear that Little Britain USA has sparked outrage in America, with a gay rights group calling the programme ‘offensive’ and ‘obnoxious’. The new show, which of course stars David Walliams and Matt Lucas, is [...]
BYE BYE G-A-Y
It’s all over for G-A-Y. The famous London nightclub that has played host to Kylie and Madonna has closed its doors for good. When Solo heard of this tragic development it asked its gay panel of experts for their thoughts and opinions, however none of them responded so we can only assume that [...]
PLAYING THE GAY CARD
Remember when being gay in Hollywood meant no work? It was like the kiss of death. Ellen DeGeneres made this discovery in 1998. But that was the ’90s and these days the situation appears to be a whole lot different with some celebrities quite happy to play the gay card when it [...]
In these nouveau times of the worldwide web, it’s hard to believe that Gaydar is almost ten years old. So how relevant is it to the modern Irish gay man and woman?
With its clever name and extensive target market, the Gaydar website was never going to fail. Launched in November 1999 by South Africans Gary [...]
When the Light House Cinema opened its doors in Smithfield last month, it marked the end of a 12 year absence from Dublin’s cultural landscape. Now it’s back and it’s brighter than ever.
It’s hard to believe that it’s over a decade now since the Light House Cinema lit up the north side of city centre [...]
Since its inception in 2003, lesbian arts festival aLAF has been making its mark as it pursues its mission to foster artistic and creative expression that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer women’s visibility and identity.
While ‘having a laugh’ is the inspiration behind it, aLAF actually stands for ‘a Lesbian Arts Festival’ which is [...]