Day: November 6, 2019

Social media giant Instagram has blocked a U.S based health centres advertisement for PrEP, on the basis that it was “too political.” The health care provider Apicha Community Health Centre, said they attempted to run a series of promotion via Instagram, to raise awareness about PrEP. However, upon launching the new campaign, they were blocked and […]

Delta Airlines has been accused of straight-washing the Elton John musical biopic, Rocketman by cutting out certain scenes in its inflight edited version.  The controversy began after Entertainment Weekly’s digital director Shana Naomi Krochma, took to social media criticising the Airline for its edited version of the film in which most of the films gay content was […]

Gareth Watkins looks back at the events that shaped our Rainbow Community. November 1957 Activist and politician Georgina Beyer was born in Wellington.  Beyer’s rich life has been the subject of books and films documenting her journey from, as she puts it, “cracking it as a prostitute” to becoming the world’s first openly transgender Mayor […]

When he’s not tuning into RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Keegan Elliot is keeping abreast of all the glitz, glam and glitter on the NZ drag scene. Here is what’s hot this November. Auckland: There’s always a multitude of drag happening on Friday and Saturday nights in Auckland. Make your way to Staircase for Fierce Friday’s […]

The perfect specimen for figure skating, yet with the guts to be himself. ‘The Ice King’ explores the journey of John Curry’s life, the 1976 Olympic Figure Skating Champion, famously known for being the first Olympian to be ‘openly’ gay. Based on the book, “Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry,” this film explores […]