Day: April 29, 2015

Apr 29
Film Review – Cobain: Montage of Heck

Sam Te Kani takes a look at the new Kurt Cobain documentary everyone is talking about. I missed Nirvana. I was a nineties child, literally, void of hormone-induced angst which saw the band’s meteoric rise as a fairly content, if painfully naive kindergartener. My own self-defined period of rebellion would be piggybacked by other bands […]

Apr 29
Hillary Clinton Champions GLBT Rights as Supreme Court Decides on Marriage Equality

Hillary Clinton changed the colours of her presidential campaign logo  on social media to the rainbow colours symbolising the GLBT rights movement, shortly before the Supreme Court heard arguments on same sex marriage.  Clinton’s logo changed on her Facebook and Twitter pages Tuesday morning US time. Facebook pages for individual state branches of the Clinton campaign also […]

Apr 29
TV Hottie: Geordie Shore’s Nathan Henry

23 year old Nathan is the first non-hetro housemate to join the cast of MTV’s most outrageous reality romp Geordie Shore. Now entering it’s tenth season, 6’3 Nathan says the five weeks of filming went by ‘dead fast’. “It reminded me of being at Uni – we were just drunk all the time.” During this […]

Apr 29
Kiwi Player Isaac Luke Fined For Homophobic Slur

Kiwis and South Sydney Rabbitohs player Issac Luke has been fined $10,000 for using a homophobic slur on Instagram.  Luke has had $5000 of the fine suspended but will be required to undergo an education program after making a homophobic slur on social media. The slur was made on Good Friday after Luke made a post attempting […]

Apr 29
Northern Ireland Rejects Same Sex Marriage

The Sinn Fein proposal to allow same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland was narrowly defeated in the Northern Ireland Assembly by 49 votes to 47. The motion to introduce marriage equality to Northern Ireland was introduced by the left wing Irish Republican party Sinn Fein. Democratic Unionist Party Assembly member Peter Weir said his party opposed […]