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

[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.

[9] By 1998, the publication had 2 full-time members of staff and 21 part-time positions funded by FÁS[6] producing a 38-page freesheet.

[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.