2009
Jan 2009, Issue 229
Space: the final frontier... A time when racism, sexism and ‘alienism’ are things of the past – so why have there never been any bona fide gay characters in Star Trek? And despite the lack of inclusion, why are there millions of gay fans hanging on to every last word in the Captain’s Log? As a new documentary about the queer love of Star Trek airs, Ciara McGrattan explores the phenomenon that is the Gay Trekkie.
Irish Sunday afternoons from 1984 to 1987 were dominated by one man and his vision for a television world filled with music videos, big hair and celebrity gossip. We salute Ireland’s first gay celebrity, Vincent Hanley and the TV cult hit, MTUSA.
RTE’s foray into digital radio broadcasting has yielded not one, not two, but three gay shows. We meet the DJ’s who are pushing the national broadcaster towards a bright new queer future.
Plus, Shirley Temple Bar meets Mrs Doyle, aka Pauline McLynn, we present our guide to the best pampering spa offers in Ireland, and we go all Brideshead Revisited on a budget in a fashion shoot with posh written all over it.
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