Day: April 11, 2017

Jay Bennie announced on 10 April that the GayNZ.com website will switch off at the end of May, after 16 years, citing “the operation we have built and sustained, with a few changes on the way, may not be the best one for the future.” The Gay Guide has also ceased publication. Jay and Neil, […]

Sir Ian McKellen has opened up about growing up gay in Britain before the partial-decriminalisation of homosexuality. The short film, part of a series called Random Acts, sees the legendary actor explaining that life as a gay person in the 40s and 50s was “a terrible oppression.” The four-minute film was directed by filmmaker Joe Stephenson […]

BOYS, adapted from Greg McGee’s Foreskin’s Lament, is our state of the nation play about masculinity. Using contemporary material ranging from the Chiefs ‘stripper scandal’ to Wellington College’s recent online incident, award-winning theatre-makers Eleanor Bishop and Julia Croft and a group of sixteen young people from Auckland take New Zealand’s iconic locker room play and ask “what […]