Day: May 24, 2016

In an interview with Fitzy and Wippa, Sam Neil revealed that one of his biggest regrets was turning down a role in iconic Australian drag film, Pricilla Queen of the Desert. “The only regret I do have is that I did turn down Priscilla. It’s probably indiscreet to say, but I’ll say it anyway – Terence […]

Only days away from opening night, Amy Jane Bedwell talks to playwright and actress Jess Sayer about playwriting, lesbianism, and her latest female-centric play, SHAM. I am looking forward to 31 May. I’ll have a drink at the bar before cramming in to the intimate Basement playhouse for an equally intimate performance. Opening night is […]

Justice has today been delivered to the family of murdered Auckland gay man Ihaia Gillman-Harris as life sentences were passed down on his two killers. Beauen Wallace-Loretz has been sentenced to a minimum of eleven years in prison by Justice Kit Toogood, while Leonard Nattrass-Bergquist is set to serve a minimum of ten years and nine months for […]

I have a friend who is mostly, but not quite straight. Tom,* until recently, had a long-term girlfriend, yet describes his sexuality as “fluid.” He goes so far as to articulate his romantic preferences as “70:30”: 70 percent straight and 30 percent gay. To the millennial generation, where deviations from heterosexuality are widely accepted, a […]

The CD4 threshold prevents some people with newly diagnosed HIV from getting treatment. The persistence of this threshold illuminates the lack of government priority given providing people diagnosed with this disease, most of which are men who have sex with men, adequate and fast treatment. And it all comes down to money. With the recent injection […]

Figures released by the University of Otago’s AIDS Epidemiology Group show that 2015 had the highest number of newly diagnosed HIV infections among gay and bisexual men ever recorded. Figures show that gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) remain most affected by HIV infection in New Zealand. 88 gay and bisexual men were […]