Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: A League of Their Own was always queer

Na Gaeil Aeracha makes history as first LGBTQ+ team to win GAA league title

Na Gaeil Aeracha’s Men’s+ Football team has made sporting history by becoming the first LGBTQ+ team to win a GAA league title in Ireland. After an extraordinary unbeaten run, they’ve been crowned AFL Division 11A league champions, a milestone not just for the club but for the GAA as a whole.

Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: A League of Their Own was always queer

Sports comedy drama film, A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall, was released in 1992. In the same year, professor and film critic B Ruby Rich coined the term “new queer cinema” to describe a wave of independent films which represented LGBTQ+ people in new and unapologetic ways. Meanwhile on television, the decade saw some groundbreaking representations of LGBTQ+ characters. In 1997, US actor and TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres famously…