Category: Arts & Culture
Just when you thought 2016 couldn’t throw something else into the mix, Comme des Garçons and Vetements have collaborated for three holiday sweaters – each LGBT+-themed. The ‘Gay, Lesbian and Fetish’ sweaters each take a different part of Pride history, and the flags and symbols that have been used to portray them. We launch […]
Expression, InsideOUT’s art competition for teens, is over and the winners are out. All three categories – art, film and writing – yielded some excellent entries. The point of the competition was to encourage the production of LGBT+ content. As Tabby Besley, National Coordinator for InsideOUT, says, “we were aware that in some schools young […]
Looking at the broad phases in the history of Auckland’s gay nightclub scene, there are interesting parallels with three of the most well-known events of 20th-century gay history. From the 1940s to the 1990s in Aotearoa, there was a paradigm shift in attitudes to human sexuality. Also increasingly, change is argued in terms of objective/scientific […]
Canadian indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara have announced that they are returning to our shores, playing only one show at Auckland’s Bruce Mason Centre on Saturday 11 March 2017. Continuing their Love You To Death tour in support of their eighth studio album, the show marks the first true chance for Kiwi fans enjoy a […]
Benjamin Law, who created hit Australian TV sitcom The Family Law, is coming to Auckland to take part in LGBT+ writers’ festival Same Same But Different. The TV show is now producing its second series, and is based on Law’s book of the same name, which tells the story of a dysfunctional Chinese-Australian family on […]
Originally hailing from Auckland, openly gay artist WCB (aka Will Cooper Barling) is a singer-songwriter and producer, now based in Sydney. WCB unites sparse, ariose production with his melodic vocal style to bring old school R&B into the modern day. His music is an atmospheric soundscape, a storyline into which you can escape, and is […]
Image: Instagram LarzRanda, or Mainard Larkin, if you really wanted to use proper names (since when have we called rappers by the actual names?) is not your average rapper: he doesn’t rap about hos, nor does he go on and on about all the bling, or life in the ghetto; sure, he does sometimes draw […]
Things get steamy and heated and then all of a sudden, very, very dark in The Veronicas’ latest music video for their single, ‘On Your Side’. Written and directed by Ruby Rose, of Orange is the New Black fame, it montages two women’s relationship – from the initial meet-cute through courtship and the drug overdose at […]