Day: August 14, 2019

NZ Police say they are changing the way they provide support to their LGBTI+ staff and won’t be refilling the Diversity Liaison Officer Coordinator position. Inspector Tracy Phillips [pictured, right] has left the New Zealand police to take up a new role with the SPCA. Phillips had served as the very first Diversity Liaison Officer […]

Project Runway star Lenon Wakuwa will exhibit their designs at New Zealand Fashion Week. They tell Belinda Nash about their passion for colour, androgyny and embracing individuality.   Lenon Wakuwa burst onto New Zealand television screen in 2018 in TVNZ’s inaugural Project Runway NZ. As much as the fashion-on-’roids TV show format challenged Wakura, Wakura challenged it back – smashing gender-normative conventions and dismissing our Kiwi obsession for wearing head–to–toe […]

NZ Falcons player Karl Wilshier says it’s time we start pushing ourselves forward in the scrum.  I’ve had a complicated relationship with rugby as both a queer man and a player. These days I am as quick to be passionate about opportunities for inclusion in this sport as I am angry when the news highlights a […]

One of the benefits of flying to mainland USA with Hawaiian Airlines is that you get to stop off in O’ahu on the way back. After a week of partying at New York Pride, it’s exactly what Oliver Hall needed. For my O’ahu stay I checked into The Queen Kapiolani (www.queenkapiolani.com) a hotel which embraced […]