Fiction library
Original short fiction set in the GAA world — club-level stories, underage-grade debuts, sideline romances. All characters are fictional. No real-player content.
Read the libraryAn independent, fan-run community hub for LGBTQ+ people in GAA. Original fiction by and for queer Gaels, a directory of inclusive clubs, plain-talking resources, and the news that gets left out of the official channels.
Fan-curated · not affiliated with the GAA, Na Gaeil Aeracha, or Sporting Pride · Ireland-based
GGA.ie is a small, deliberately fan-shaped project. No governing body, no press office, no gatekeeping — just a handful of spaces where LGBTQ+ people in GAA can find each other.
Original short fiction set in the GAA world — club-level stories, underage-grade debuts, sideline romances. All characters are fictional. No real-player content.
Read the libraryA plain-English list of LGBTQ+-inclusive GAA clubs and queer sports organisations operating in Ireland, with contact details, training nights and how-to-join notes.
Find a clubShort reads on Pride matches, inclusion policy, Na Gaeil Aeracha milestones, and the stories the county pages don't run. Opinion welcome, slurs not.
Latest postsComing out in sport, mental-health supports, helplines and advocacy — pulled together in one place so you're not hunting through ten websites on a bad day.
Open the resourcesThe Official GAA inclusion pages are necessary. Na Gaeil Aeracha does the on-the-ground work. Sporting Pride coordinates the federation layer. We do the rest — the fan stuff.
Policy documents live elsewhere. Here it's player spotlights, supporters' diaries, club-night stories and the funny stuff you tell your friends after training.
Gaelic football, hurling, camogie, ladies football, handball, rounders. Gay, lesbian, bi, trans, non-binary, ace, questioning, allies. If GAA is your thing and you're queer-adjacent, you fit.
Original-character fiction only. Moderated comments. Strict rules on content about real, named players. We want this to feel like a good dressing-room, not a worst-of-Twitter replica.
Short, original pieces set in the GAA world. Each marked FICTION, each built around invented characters, each runnable in under twenty minutes on the train home.
Two members of a small-club senior side walk back to the car after losing a county semi-final. A conversation neither planned to have opens anyway.
Read itA new panel member on a U17 team makes a decision about being out at training — and another one about whether to take his coach's advice.
Read itTwo team-mates in a Galway ladies football dressing-room realise they've been dancing around each other all season. Neither of them wants to lose the dressing-room over it.
Read itTwo supporters meet properly for the first time in a pub in Thurles at the half-time of an All-Ireland semi-final. The match is not the point.
Read itA camogie goalkeeper coaches the under-12s with her girlfriend and tries to work out, one under-12 at a time, how out she wants the club to be.
Read itA fictional corner-back on a fictional Leinster county senior panel decides, in the week of a provincial final, to come out to his team manager.
Read itA growing list of GAA clubs and wider queer sports organisations that explicitly welcome LGBTQ+ members. If your club belongs here, drop us a line.
Men's and ladies football, with pathways into hurling and camogie. Welcomes all skill levels. Training at St Anne's Park, Raheny.
Club profileNot a club itself — but the fastest route to find LGBTQ+ rugby, hockey, running, swimming and more in your county.
Network profileInclusion policy, Rainbow Laces campaign notes, county-board contacts for welfare and equality queries.
Links & contextSport should be the good part of the week. If it isn't today, or if someone at your club is making it not be, these are the numbers and links we keep on hand.
Drop-in groups nationwide, helpline, and specific supports for LGBTQ+ young people in sport.
How to reach themConfidential listening service for anyone LGBTQ+, their families, and friends. Trained volunteers, evenings and weekends.
How to reach themFor when things have narrowed to the point where you need to hear another voice. Call or email anytime, about anything.
Call detailsShort, infrequent emails: new fiction, Pride-match fixtures, and when a new club joins the directory. One email a month at most. No ads, no selling your address to anyone, ever.