Day: October 6, 2014

It feels like only yesterday we were bidding adieu to openly gay former US Ambassador David Huebner, but like a gift from the Vatican itself, spunky Italian Carmelo Barbarello has arrived for his three-year stint as Italian Ambassador to NZ. Barbarello who is married (sorry boys!) arrived in Wellington with his husband Javier Barca, and […]

Taste of Auckland will be at its new home at Western Springs for the first time from 13-16 November this year. It’s always a great event and, as usual, some of our favourite restaurants will be in attendance – Depot, Oyster Inn and Farina just to name a few. It’s a bit of a different […]

Reverend Dr Helen Jacobi, the new vicar of inclusive Auckland church, St Matthew-in-the-City, ponders if the new musical about to take over our super city will make us ask bigger questions about life. For those of us who were teenagers in the 70s, songs like “I don’t know how to love him” and “Could we […]

Beautiful exhibitions with naughty names are putting gay artist Imogen Taylor on the map. Her latest, Glory Hole is about to become the talk of K road! Glory Hole sounds provocative . The words suggest debauchery, anonymity, arousal. If you didn’t know what a glory hole was, you might think it was something holy, something […]