Day: June 30, 2016
The New Zealand International Film Festival has returned for another year! Founded on the principle of sharing box office income with filmmakers, this film-buffs fever-dream boasts an eclectic mix of unique cinematic marvels you won’t see at your neighbourhood theatre. Queer stories are again a highlight this year, and the festival is offering up a […]
A crisis counselling helpline will shut down unless the Government steps in with funding. Lifeline Aotearoa says it only has enough money to run for one more year, as its appeals to the Government for help have been rejected. It was asking the public for donations. The service provides free 24-hour mental health assistance for issues such as bullying, […]
Jordan Bruno is one half of the sizzling mother-and-son duo currently cooking up a storm on New Zealand screens in My Kitchen Rules. Alongside his mother Anna, openly gay foodie Jordan has impressed the judges with his cool, calm, and collected attitude towards cooking and amazing skills in the kitchen. “It was very important that […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. I am concerned about my brother. We are both gay, but he is meeting up with many different guys and having unprotected sex with them. He is only 17 so he is just being impulsive and not thinking things through. How can […]
A video was released today by the Human Rights Campaign and produced by Ryan Murphy paying tribute to the lives of the GLBT people and allies who lost their lives at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016. 49 celebrities came together to honour the victims of the horrific attack, sharing the victim’s lives in brief stories […]
To mark the thirty-year anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand, express talks to some of the key players in this remarkable social and political change and considers what still needs to be done. David Hindley I was one of the co-ordinators of the Gay Task Force in the capital, with a […]
What better way to spend a wintery evening than by attending the opening show by the beautiful people from the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). Congratulations to Auckland Live for this extravaganza silhouetting the beauty of the human body through the magic of dance and physical expression. This Auckland season will be NDT’s debut season in New […]
Dakota Hemmingson has been awarded over $13,000 in compensation and lost wages after she was told to resign following coming out as transgender. Hemmingson was an employee at Barkers Groom Room for six months in 2015. She came out as transgender and was told by her superiors that she no longer fit the “commercial profile” […]