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"Gay Community News is published every month in Dublin. Material published in GCN does not necessarily represent the views of the National Gay Federation. Material published in GCN is copyright. Reprint by permission only. Issue 1 Address: P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4, Ireland. Telephone: (01)732693 Typesetting: Laserworks and Co-op Typesetting Printed by: Meath Chronicle, Market Square, Navan, Co. Meath. Editorial: Bill Collins, Frank Fitzgerald, Tonie Walsh. Contributors: Bill Collins, Dorothy, Frank Fitzgerald, Tony Murphy, Judith Storm, Jimmy and Sheila Thompson, Jim Treanor, Tonie Walsh. Photography: Brendan O'Bryne, Denis O'Neill, Tony O'Shea, Sean Gilmartin Design and Layout: Niall Sweeney We welcome your opinions and contributions of any variety. Please enclose a SAE for reply. This issue is dedicated to Catherine Glendon, a founder of GCN. She will be missed by many. Photography: Viola Wills by Denis O'Neill Odyssey by Tony O'Shea GPW, Shorts Party, Condom Protest by Brendan O'Byrne, Catherine Glendon by Brendan O'Byrne. Vincent Hanley courtesy Hot Press/Halloween Ball by Sean GilmartinlHirschfeld Centre and Fr. Cleary courtesy Evening Herald. James Baldwin by Jenny Matthews/Format. Spreekt U nederlands? Parlez-vous francais? Sprechen sie deutsch? Every day we receive foreign language newspapers and magazines from mainland Europe and South America - all bursting with information about the lives of our gay sisters and brothers around the world. Unfortunately our talents do not extend to translation so the global picture remains somewhat dimmed. If you have a language talent, of any description, please contact us quickly by post or telephone and help us to lighten that global picture. Make a splash this year and subscribe to Ireland's newest and brightest gay newspaper. Tread where no-one has dared before. Dive in at the deep end with our journalists and fish out the essential information to complete your understanding of Irish gay politics, culture and the 'scene'. Subscribe today to Gay Community News. Just fill out the subscription form below. Yes! I'm going to take the plunge. Here is my subscription to Gay Community News. I enclose a cheque/postal order/draft for £5 made payable to GCN. Name: Address: Post to: Gay Community News, P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4. GCN is mailed in a stylish plain brown wrapper." "Yes, dear reader, although the memory of childhood is probably hidden in the deepest recess of your brain it is an inescapable fact that we were all babies once. Long ago, fadó, fadó. To celebrate the fact that, even as you read this wonderful ditty, faggot and dyke babies are being bom all over the world, we proudly announce the Gay Com­munity Babies Gallery starting from issue 2."

"We are the parents of Seamus Jimmy and Sheila Thompson. We hope this will be of some help to other parents of young gay people. When we were told by Seamus that he was gay we thought it was the end of the world. Here we were, good Catholic parents with a gay son. ""What could we poss­ibly have done wrong?"", we thought, ""and what were we to do?"" We told a nun about this who put our minds at rest and she told us it was not our fault but a comm­on occurrence. We also spoke to other parents and also the boys and girls (from the Hirschfeld Centre) and found them to be no different to anyone else. It strengthened our love for him hundredfold. Young people find it hard to come to terms with their sexual­ity no matter what it is due to (social pressures, etc) but it is even harder when they are gay. Not that that should matter. Therefore they need all the love and support you can give. Anyway, does it really matter who or what they are? They are the only ones who can live their lives and if we love our children truly it should not matter to us. We are everything to them and they are everything to us. It takes all kinds to make the world. Jimmy and Sheila Thompson"

"Gay Community News is published every month in Dublin. Material published in GCN does not necessarily represent the views of the National Gay Federation. Material published in GCN is copyright. Reprint by permission only. Issue 1 Address: P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4, Ireland. Telephone: (01)732693 Typesetting: Laserworks and Co-op Typesetting Printed by: Meath Chronicle, Market Square, Navan, Co. Meath. Editorial: Bill Collins, Frank Fitzgerald, Tonie Walsh. Contributors: Bill Collins, Dorothy, Frank Fitzgerald, Tony Murphy, Judith Storm, Jimmy and Sheila Thompson, Jim Treanor, Tonie Walsh. Photography: Brendan O'Bryne, Denis O'Neill, Tony O'Shea, Sean Gilmartin Design and Layout: Niall Sweeney We welcome your opinions and contributions of any variety. Please enclose a SAE for reply. This issue is dedicated to Catherine Glendon, a founder of GCN. She will be missed by many. Photography: Viola Wills by Denis O'Neill Odyssey by Tony O'Shea GPW, Shorts Party, Condom Protest by Brendan O'Byrne, Catherine Glendon by Brendan O'Byrne. Vincent Hanley courtesy Hot Press/Halloween Ball by Sean GilmartinlHirschfeld Centre and Fr. Cleary courtesy Evening Herald. James Baldwin by Jenny Matthews/Format. Spreekt U nederlands? Parlez-vous francais? Sprechen sie deutsch? Every day we receive foreign language newspapers and magazines from mainland Europe and South America - all bursting with information about the lives of our gay sisters and brothers around the world. Unfortunately our talents do not extend to translation so the global picture remains somewhat dimmed. If you have a language talent, of any description, please contact us quickly by post or telephone and help us to lighten that global picture. Make a splash this year and subscribe to Ireland's newest and brightest gay newspaper. Tread where no-one has dared before. Dive in at the deep end with our journalists and fish out the essential information to complete your understanding of Irish gay politics, culture and the 'scene'. Subscribe today to Gay Community News. Just fill out the subscription form below. Yes! I'm going to take the plunge. Here is my subscription to Gay Community News. I enclose a cheque/postal order/draft for £5 made payable to GCN. Name: Address: Post to: Gay Community News, P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4. GCN is mailed in a stylish plain brown wrapper."

"Gay Community News is published every month in Dublin. Material published in GCN does not necessarily represent the views of the National Gay Federation. Material published in GCN is copyright. Reprint by permission only. Issue 1 Address: P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4, Ireland. Telephone: (01)732693 Typesetting: Laserworks and Co-op Typesetting Printed by: Meath Chronicle, Market Square, Navan, Co. Meath. Editorial: Bill Collins, Frank Fitzgerald, Tonie Walsh. Contributors: Bill Collins, Dorothy, Frank Fitzgerald, Tony Murphy, Judith Storm, Jimmy and Sheila Thompson, Jim Treanor, Tonie Walsh. Photography: Brendan O'Bryne, Denis O'Neill, Tony O'Shea, Sean Gilmartin Design and Layout: Niall Sweeney We welcome your opinions and contributions of any variety. Please enclose a SAE for reply. This issue is dedicated to Catherine Glendon, a founder of GCN. She will be missed by many. Photography: Viola Wills by Denis O'Neill Odyssey by Tony O'Shea GPW, Shorts Party, Condom Protest by Brendan O'Byrne, Catherine Glendon by Brendan O'Byrne. Vincent Hanley courtesy Hot Press/Halloween Ball by Sean GilmartinlHirschfeld Centre and Fr. Cleary courtesy Evening Herald. James Baldwin by Jenny Matthews/Format. Spreekt U nederlands? Parlez-vous francais? Sprechen sie deutsch? Every day we receive foreign language newspapers and magazines from mainland Europe and South America - all bursting with information about the lives of our gay sisters and brothers around the world. Unfortunately our talents do not extend to translation so the global picture remains somewhat dimmed. If you have a language talent, of any description, please contact us quickly by post or telephone and help us to lighten that global picture. Make a splash this year and subscribe to Ireland's newest and brightest gay newspaper. Tread where no-one has dared before. Dive in at the deep end with our journalists and fish out the essential information to complete your understanding of Irish gay politics, culture and the 'scene'. Subscribe today to Gay Community News. Just fill out the subscription form below. Yes! I'm going to take the plunge. Here is my subscription to Gay Community News. I enclose a cheque/postal order/draft for £5 made payable to GCN. Name: Address: Post to: Gay Community News, P.O. Box 931, Dublin 4. GCN is mailed in a stylish plain brown wrapper."