Day: November 22, 2023
Jessie Lewthwaite has dating app recommendations for those lucky enough to be ‘new in town.’ I’m lying on my couch, phone in hand, gin in the other, scrolling lazily through a dating app. I have my video game paused in the background as I actually take time to read girls’ profiles, being only one gin-deep. […]
Craig Young questions our legal system’s response to drug and alcohol-fuelled crime and asks whether enough detox and rehab programmes are being funded. My friend Stan Waipouri (1968-2006) didn’t make it to forty. He was murdered by two polydrug users, Ashley Arnopp and Andre Gilling, who were sentenced to imprisonment for his homicide. The […]
PrideNZ.com, a long-running website dedicated to recording and making accessible Aotearoa New Zealand’s Rainbow heritage, has embarked on a project to make its almost 900 audio recordings more AI accessible. “Access to Generative Artificial Intelligence, for example ChatGPT, over the last year has blossomed” says Gareth Watkins, founder of Pride NZ. “Web users can now […]
Pandora Nox is the first AFAB (assigned female at birth) winner in Drag Race’s nearly 15-year ‘herstory’. Pandora Nox has emerged as the first cisgender woman to clinch the title in the Drag Race series, marking a milestone with her victory in the debut season of Drag Race Germany. This triumph is not only a […]
“Expect more lights, floats, glitter, love and colour!” Auckland Rainbow Parade’s Co-Chair gets us hyped for the Ponsonby Road parade’s Summer return! The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will be positioned in Ponsonby as the Auckland Rainbow Parade returns bringing diversity, unity, respect, celebration, inclusion and loads of colour in 2024. Co-Chair Matt […]
Aussie ‘Boylesque’ troupe Briefs made their successful return to New Zealand on Thursday 16 November at Auckland’s Q Theatre with their spectacular new show ‘Dirty Laundry’. The opening night of Briefs’ Dirty Laundry combined the ‘boys’ top talents of drag, cabaret, comedy, and circus-like acrobatics for their wild new show, a perfect night for an […]