Gay Community News (GCN) is Ireland's longest-running free LGBTQ+ publication and press; it is based in Dublin, and founded in 1988.

[6] During the early 1990s, prominent activists and writers, Suzy Byrne and Junior Larkin worked on the publication.

[8] For issue 100, in 1997, GCN sponsored the first Irish Queer Writers Award, which was won in its inaugural year by Micheál Ó Conghaile and Padraig Rooney.

[3] In July 2003, Brian Finnegan was appointed editor and GCN was relaunched as a full-colour magazine in an effort to make the publication more commercially viable,[5] with funding from Atlantic Philanthropies.

In June 2023, GCN launched its Digital Archive, making the first decade of the magazine freely available for online readers for the first time in its 35-year history.