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Stephen Quinn

"I wanted to build a space that was about cultivating a sustainable, weird place for people to try out mad things".

Stephen MoloneyAugust 29, 2017Leo Varadkar, Spicebag, Queer, Glitterhole, Stephen Quinn, Performance, Oisin McKenna, UnderCURRENT, PussysComment

Alex Lawson

“What makes a man a man is that he is a man and nothing else”.

Stephen MoloneyAugust 22, 2017Alex Lawson, Trans, Trans Activism, Transness, TENIComment

Come Out Fighting

"Come Out Fighting takes a true-to-life look at how we view sex; hooking up, getting off – the before, during and after".

Stephen MoloneyAugust 19, 2017HIV, Sexual Health, Sexual Wellbeing, Sexual Empowerment, Come Out Fighting, Will St Leger, Act-Up, Activism, PrEPComment

Will St Leger

“[We will] go out there and sticker and stencil and keep hammering home that message until people realise there is a problem in Ireland that is not being addressed".

Stephen MoloneyJune 1, 2017Act-Up, Activism, HIV, Stigma, Street Art, Will St Leger Comment

Mark Keane

"If we're all being a little honest with ourselves, we all, in minor ways or not, are awful gays".

Stephen MoloneyMay 5, 2017Satire, Comedy, Art, Culture, Mark KeaneComment

Philip Baldwin

"I think a lot of gay men are missing out on a potentially really important aspect of their lives by not considering faith".

Adam Houlihan

"It’s reassurance, it’s peace of mind, it’s duty of care. See it as insurance – nobody wants it until they need it".

Stephen MoloneyMarch 20, 2017Sexual Health, Sexual Wellbeing, HIV, PrEP, PEP, Act-Up Comments

Philip O'Sullivan

"These words cast me as this unwanted outsider. It's important to reclaim these terms and redefine their meaning".

Stephen MoloneyMarch 13, 2017Fashion, Pride, Faggot, Homo, Apparel, Design, Culture, QueerComment

Andrew Goyvaerts

"We have a discrepancy in the support that people have available to them in an urban area compared to somewhere rural. There is a prime opportunity in technology to address this".

Stephen MoloneyFebruary 23, 2017Sexual Health, Social Media, Andrew Goyvaerts, Positive Hugs, HIVComment

Brian Teeling

"A door left open, the poppers in soft focus, the smaller details. They're reminders of intimacy, artefacts; the only constant – rather than the boy".

Stephen MoloneyFebruary 9, 2017Hookups, Brian Teeling, Grindr, Art, Poppers, Photography, IntimacyComment

Traolach Ó Buachalla

"It was an opportunity to hold up a mirror, to make a polemic. I didn’t want to have a debate as to whether or not rape culture exists – it does”.

Daniel Tóth

"If you hide away, you kind of contribute to the idea that some things are just not said. It takes a lot of conscious effort to break that".

Stephen MoloneyJanuary 18, 2017HIV, Sexual Health, Daniel Tóth, Sex education, Sexual Wellbeing, Activism, Long interview, AdvocacyComment

Frank Strachan

"The message and its medium make for a satisfyingly jarring pairing, an unabashed queering of what, too often, seems to be an impenetrable bastion of homointolerance".

Stephen MoloneyDecember 19, 2016Comment

Adam Shanley

“Being able to find out your HIV status in a bar normalises the process and normalises the opportunity for you to talk to your friends about it”.

Stephen MoloneyNovember 20, 2016Sexual Health, HIV, Adam Shanley, OutHouse, The George, KnowNow, Sexual Wellbeing, Pantibar Comment

Conor Kavanagh

"Somebody said, ‘when we get equality, the debate will move to how we treat one and other – we have a really big problem there’. He was so right".

Stephen MoloneyNovember 9, 2016Long Interview, Tech, Inclusion, Diversity, InterTech, GrindrComment

JRDN

"Is there a safe space? As a gay man, there is. As a black gay man? There isn’t. Will it happen? Eventually. We're at the beginning".

Stephen MoloneyNovember 4, 2016Long interview, Race, Ethnicity, Queer Comment

David Stuart

"We see gay men who want to feel sexy and horny, who want to feel affirmed as sexual beings – as they deserve, as is their right".

Stephen MoloneyOctober 28, 2016Sexual Wellbeing, Long Interview, HIV, Sex, Chems, Chemsex, David Stuart, Crystal, Public Health, DrugsComment

Harry Colley

"I sometimes stress when I’m cooking for mates, so I almost never do. I imagine they’re expecting something mind blowing when it’s probably going to be really simple".

Stephen MoloneyOctober 13, 2016Comment

Mark Grehan

"In my floristry work and in my bouquet work, I am probably more masculine rather than pretty. I see how things are growing and try and reinterpret that".

Stephen MoloneySeptember 30, 2016Gardening, Plants, The Garden, Mark Grehan, Connemara, Galway, DublinComment

Paddy Scahill

"The drugs prevalent on the gay scene have started to differ from those on the straight scene. And clubs as well as after parties have become more overtly sexualised".

Stephen MoloneySeptember 24, 2016Interview, Paddy Scahill, DJ, ClubbingComment