Day: March 3, 2016

  Words are boats which carry meaning and power.  For at least four decades, our Queer community has deliberately acted to re-define words heteros have used as demeaning epithets for us – dyke, faggot, poofter, pussy-eater – imbuing them with our pride. Same same but different, the 2016 Pride Literary Festival showed how magnificently we […]

Wellington based photographer Kathryn Armitage is bringing “Out Of The Box”, an exhibition confronting societies need to categorise the communities in which we live, to the Wellington Pride Festival this March. Armitage says that she has “a huge interest in community and love[s] connecting with people, places and gaining an understanding of different aspects of our […]

The advocacy for same-sex marriage and support of queer rights has become a major American election issue this year. Shots have been fired from all camps, including dredging up Clinton’s support of DOMA, and Bernie Sanders’ previous reluctance to talk openly about gay marriage. In spite of slanderous political campaigning, it would be folly to say […]