Category: Arts & Culture
Take a step back in time with Auckland’s new self-guided LGBTIQ+ walking tour which traces the formation of the 1972 Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The GLF was a radical activist group that was made up of mainly young people and was responsible for bringing LGBTIQ+ people out of the closet and proudly onto the city’s […]
A vocal supporter of the Black Live Matter movement Miss Geena celebrates her favourite new artists of colour. Paige South Auckland star Paige delivers her more of her impeccable 90s-nostalgia R&B new single on new single Bloom. This queer artist feels like she is following in the footsteps of Benee and Lorde on the path […]
Another one of those, ‘we already knew that’ moments has occurred and sent the internet into a spin with the official announcement that lead character in the Scooby-Doo franchise Velma is a lesbian. The confirmation, if you needed it to be confirmed, has come from the producer of the 2010-13 cartoon series Tony Cervone who […]
Jordan Quinn tells us what inspired the new must-see exhibition Sex Workers of Aotearoa – a day in the life of. Sex Work; an industry most often illuminated by media clickbait and sensationalist headlines. We’re represented by questionable TV characters and victims in Hollywood movies. Our existence has shaped history and we’ve been the muses […]
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is excited to announce that it is performing physical concerts again at the Auckland Town Hall from Thursday 9 July, as it resumes its 2020 season. During the lockdown and through Level 2, the orchestra shared a wide range of digital content. This included their Thursday night Encore Livestreams, at-home performances, […]
The full programme for Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival has been revealed with 79 feature films and seven collections of short films from 41 countries screening online and in selected cinemas and venues from 24 July to 2 August. Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival will make history by being the first hybrid film festival in the world presenting its programme […]
‘Welcome to Chechnya’ shines a light on the brutal oppression of homosexuality which includes gay “honour killings” in the Russian republic. A new film shining a light on the purge of homosexuals currently taking place in the Russian republic of Chechnya is set to be released. ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ is aiming to draw the world’s […]
In a major about-face by Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants has come out as gay for Pride Month. In the early 2000s the show heads and the series creator the late Stephen Hillenburg, explicitly said SpongeBob SquarePants was not gay, but asexual. Fast forward almost 20 years and Nickelodeon officially made the reveal Saturday in a tweet […]