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On Saturday 9 November, URGE took over Phoenix Cabaret to celebrate the 27th Anniversary of K Road’s late great Urge Bar opening. The occasion was marked with a spectacular performance from Ardon England and DJ sets from Mitch Medcalf, James Leuii and Everett Wayne. Photos | Jasmin Sheikh.
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The UK YouTube stars sit down with YOUR ex to discuss instant chemistry, their relationship status and surviving a homophobic online gaming world.
Their last tour was the biggest world tour a duo of YouTubers had ever embarked on. After a content-creating hiatus, Dan and Phil returned to YouTube for...
Historian Gareth Watkins highlights October dates as significant for our queer communities.
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of poet and social worker Ursula Bethell. While she was born in England, Bethell’s parents had previously lived in New Zealand, and by the early 1880s,...
Lateshift owner/operator Craig Oakley chats to YOUR ex about managing his business through changing times and 35 years of providing a successful community service.
Tell us a bit about your background before you became involved in Lateshift.
After graduating from Victoria University, I moved to Auckland in 1985. I ran the...
The Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura report card is giving the government at 'F' when it comes to preventing violence for Takataapui and Rainbow communities.
“Flunking the government didn't sit easily with us, but we didn’t really have a choice,” says project lead Sandra Dickson. “The reality is, there’s just one social...
Former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, brother of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, has come out as gay.
Schumacher, who recently turned 49, shared the news on Instagram. He posted a photo of himself with his partner Etienne gazing at a sunset, with the caption: “The most beautiful thing in...
In an exciting and significant moment for NZ theatre, The Court Theatre in Christchurch is staging Fun Home, the groundbreaking musical based on the graphic novel by lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel about her complex relationship with her father and growing up in a funeral home.
Lead actors Michael Lee Porter...
Is there a sexier venue than Lyttelton's Wunderbar?! With its mood lighting, retro-Berlin-inspired decor and sweeping views of Lyttelton's stunning harbour URGE's Papa Bear Paul Heard fell in love with the venue! He tells us what we can expect from this month's one-of-a-kind URGE party taking over Wunderbar on...
