Day: February 2, 2017

The new ‘Ending HIV’ campaign couldn’t have come at a better time! We are at the point where the number of newly-diagnosed HIV infections per year is sitting at its highest level it’s been since the beginning of the then-fatal epidemic thirty years ago. Most HIV infections throughout New Zealand are contracted by gay and bisexual men – […]

Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is a thing of devastating beauty. Part coming of age story, part coming to terms with a jeered at sexual orientation and part a soliloquy into the deeper ravages of one man’s unbreakable spirit, the movie pins hope to heartbreak. Based on three defining chapters in the life of an African American […]

Jess Herbst, mayor of New Hope, Texas, has penned an open letter to her town’s residents coming out as a trans woman. Herbst, who previously served as alderman, road commissioner and mayor pro tem (the person who takes on the duties of mayor in case of a mayor’s sudden incapacitation), took on the role after the […]

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”1387″ display=”pro_sidescroll”] King of Kings Pageant Sunday 29 January Family Bar & Club Photos: Maria Bumanglag Gathering on K’ Road for what can only be described as one of the best ways to spend the long weekend, Family hosted King of Kings – a night filled with plenty of laughs and a lot […]

What is the secret of nature? Maybe only the wind and birds know. The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra accompanied conductor Tan Dun for a magical night that we here at express were lucky enough to witness firsthand.   Shuffling into Aotea Centre, you could feel the excitement rushing through the air as we were all ushered into […]

The festive season is finally behind us and normality has resumed. The gift you gave your lover was well-received (and rewarded), and your baubles are polished and packed away. If, like my husband-to-be (a few days until our wedding) and I, you spent the festive season vastly over-indulging (on a beach in Fiji) and are […]

After the kerfuffle over last year’s Pride Parade on whether Corrections would be allowed to march, the Pride board have decided that they will not be invited this year. Even though Corrections walked last year, and the year before, groups such as No Pride in Prisons have protested their involvement in Pride, especially due to […]