Day: July 14, 2023

Family Bar, K Road’s number-one superclub, is open throughout Matariki. Pay Family Bar a visit this long weekend for friendly bar staff, drag shows, Auckland’s hottest DJs, and a party atmosphere like no other! Photos | Peter Jennings. Family Bar & Nightclub, 270 Karangahape Road, Auckland. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”1919″ display=”slideshow”]

A shocking encounter in a K Road nightclub leaves Jessie Lewthwaite optimistically reflecting on the boldness of ‘Zoomers.’ Some friends and I went out dancing at one of K Road’s queer nightclubs. I was pretty quickly approached by a cute girl who started dancing with me. I couldn’t help but think how young she looked. From […]

Co-Chair of Intersex Aotearoa (IA), Dr Rogena Sterling, discusses the evolving goals of IA as the national organisation advocating for our Intersex community. For so many years, Intersex people have been invisible in society. Although they have existed since time immemorial, societies, especially Western ones based on binary, heteronormative structures, have had no room for […]

4 July 1975 The first major parliamentary attempt at homosexual law reform in New Zealand was defeated. National MP Venn Young had introduced the proposed legislation a year earlier.  It aimed to decriminalise homosexual acts between consenting adults aged 21 and over. Just before the vote, Young told the House, “My amendment to the Crimes […]