Day: June 4, 2020

Actress Amelia Reynolds shares her experience of discovering her mother was gay and meeting her girlfriend Eva for the first time. “An Open Letter To The Second Mum I Never Knew I Needed” Dearest Eva, I remember when mum first introduced us. You were twenty-three, mum was 39 and I had just turned eight. We […]

Stylish couple Olyvyer Le Rü and Dylan Cawte lit up Instagram during lockdown sipping wine overlooking picturesque vineyards while the rest of us donned trackies in our lounge. Fashion Editor Belinda Nash gets to know them. The Remuera duo made the “good call” to ditch Auckland to live Bubble life with Cawte’s dog Marley and […]

Team Auckland Master Swimmers’ Christopher Preston tells express about the team’s success at this year’s International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships. The first Gay Games – held in Los Angeles in 1982 – proved to be so much fun the Americans decided to do it annually. It birthed the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships […]

Auckland Playwright ‘Dick Richards’ examines how growing up gay affects his dating life and being open to love.   Last year I met a guy on Tinder and I fell ass overhead. Or is it head over ass? Either way, my ass was up for him, and I was in love. He ticked all my […]

Historian Gareth Watkins examines significant June dates in the history of Aotearoa’s rainbow community.  17 June 1909  Anges Ottaway applied to get her marriage to Percival Redwood annulled. Redwood, a.k.a. Amy Bock (pictured) had moved to New Zealand from Australia in the mid-1880s. Described by author Fiona Farrell as “New Zealand’s most celebrated and energetic […]

After weeks of self-isolation, we’re all adjusting into our new routines. But physical distancing is still a priority for reducing transmissions of COVID-19 – so how does that affect our sex lives? Ending HIV examines. Ending HIV have put together their top tips for playing safe in this unprecedented time! We can’t pick and choose […]