Day: June 28, 2016
Former NZ Idol runner-up Nikki Lee Carlson (formally Nik Carlson) has this week revealed to Women’s Weekly that she “had a good life as a guy” but always thought there was something missing. Sharing her gender reassignment journey with the New Zealand magazine, Nikki says that she has had four surgeries in the Thai city of Phuket […]
Winter has arrived in the land of the long white cloud. All the cute twinks, bearded bears and luscious lipstick lesbians are covering up – what a pity! Unfortunately for us, keeping warm in winter by finding a bed mate is not the solution for starving off ill’s and chill’s or keeping on top of […]
Amy Jane Bedwell talks to James (Jim) Peters, Homosexual Law Reform forerunner and author of the only dedicated personal history of the HLR Era, Fire and Brimstone. Gay Task Force member James Peters was one of the pioneering faces of queer rights in New Zealand. Alongside other forerunners like Bruce Kilmister, Bill Logan, and Fran […]
Amy Jane Bedwell considers the experiences of rural queer youth in New Zealand and asks: where do current support systems and initiatives leave this invisible community? “I grew up thinking queer people were perverts and paedophiles” says Toni Duder, Communications and Operations Manager at Rainbow Youth and creator of the I’m Local Project. She is […]
University of Auckland student and up-and-coming actor Iana Grace is the Next Big Thing in Kiwi theatre! Only twenty-one years old and already a veteran of the stage, Iana is currently involved in Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) annual youth festival, Next Big Thing (NBT) 2016. Iana identifies as feminine non-binary agender and says that the […]
Commit the crime, do the time – it’s a given! But what about transgender people in our prison systems who continue to pay the lifetime price of invalidation? It is enough to be incarcerated, but to be held within a premises intended for a gender you don’t fit is punishment additional and unfair. Elijah Michel […]