Day: October 25, 2024

Shawn Mendes recently shared a first listen to his unreleased song “The Mountain” at a performance in Woodstock, New York. Known for his pop hits, Mendes made waves this time by directly addressing longstanding rumours about his sexuality within the song, which will feature on his upcoming self-titled album, ‘Shawn’. Fan recordings from the performance […]

Eli Luke Michel ‘thinks of the children’ and discusses the medication subscribed to trans kids entering puberty.  “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” It’s a popular line in the animated sitcom The Simpsons whenever the town is thrown into chaos, but it’s also pertinent to the issue of transgender children having access to hormone blockers.   It’s […]

Jessie Lewthwaite says ‘love languages’ are a straight man’s concept, so she has created some of her own!  While out with friends, the topic of love languages came up. At my age, basically all my friends are couples, and hanging out together looks like three or four sets of couples crowded around a table at […]

We hear the word ally bandied about more frequently these days, but what is an ally? And what does it mean to be a friend to a whole community? Steven Oates goes in search of New Zealand’s queer communities’ greatest allies.  Online, there is much discourse regarding the history of allyship and debate about its […]

Taiaroa Royal may have moved back home to Rotorua, but as one of our most prolific dancers and choreographers, the move has not slowed his quest to take Aotearoa’s dance to the stages of the world.  Tai of  Te Arawa, Kai Tahu and Ngāti Raukawa grew up on the family farm located on the idyllic […]