Day: March 9, 2016

According to Rocky Horror Picture Show creator and former Hamilton resident Richard O’Brien, transpeople “can’t become women.” “I think I agree with that. I agree with Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries,” he said to Metro Magazine. “You can’t be a woman. You can be an idea of a woman. You’re in the middle and there’s […]

Award-winning choreographer and dancer Douglas Wright has announced his retirement.  A living testament to the magnitude of GLBT talent in New Zealand, Wright danced his way around prolific dance companies in New York and London before returning home to form his own company in 1989, the Douglas Wright Dance Company. With over 30 works in his […]

Long awaited American born singer-songwriter John Grant is coming to the Auckland Arts Festival this Friday 18 March! He is also performing Friday 18 March through to 20 March at WOMAD, TSB Bowl Of Brooklands & Brooklands Park Taranaki. Currently residing in Iceland, this bearded balladeer is an openly gay man who announced in 2012 that he was HIV-positive. In […]