Day: August 24, 2020

InsideOUT Kōaro have launched Schools Pride Week – the first-ever nationwide Pride Week campaign based in schools, running August 24-28, 2020. A celebratory week of events and activities to help foster a sense of belonging for rainbow young people within their schools and communities, the initiative welcomes schools, queer straight alliances, rainbow diversity groups, students, and staff across the […]

Why have poppers been banned in New Zealand? Why haven’t our Pride groups fought this? Has homophobia played a part? Long time community activist and social commentator Michael Stevens asks the important questions. Amyl. Poppers. Rush. Jungle Juice. Leather Cleaner. “Room Deodorizer” (That one always puzzled me in my teens when I’d see that description […]

Streaming giant Netflix has given fans a sneak-peak of its new adaptation of the 1968 gay stage play The Boys in the Band, starring Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory. The story written in 1968 by the late playwright Mart Crowley follows the lives and personal dramas of a group of gay men who meet […]

New research on William Shakespeare has concluded that the legendary playwright was “undeniably bisexual” putting to rest years of speculation and debate. Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr. Paul Edmonson who conducted the research analysed the 182 sonnets Shakespeare wrote from around 1578 onwards and found that, while ten were written for women, 27 were actually […]

Police are investigating a bizarre attack in a Tel Aviv public swimming pool where a gay couple subjected to a homophobic attack for having “too narrow swimming trunks and an earring in the ear.” According to victims that have spoken to the Israeli Our Cafe Newspaper, they were attacked by young people of Arab origin, […]