Category: Lifestyle
Transmasc nonbinary model Hayden Bryant talks to Belinda Nash about their experience working in a liberal industry that still has a lot to learn. If our health sector were scored for its support of gender diverse people it would barely get a merit. Tāmaki Makaurau resident Hayden Bryant’s experience as transmasc nonbinary person in the […]
At the end of last month Rotorua leaders, business owners, and tour operators were invited to attend a two-day training session to help make their city one of the most inclusive in Aotearoa for queer, trans, and takatāpui communities. Oliver Hall charts the city’s groundbreaking journey. Rotorua Economic Development Marketing Manager Haydn Marriner wanted to […]
Sex Workers of Aotearoa’s A Day In The Life Of exhibition is back for its third year, running until 18 July at The Christchurch Arts Centre. Each artist, a sex worker in the New Zealand industry, brings their experiences to life through art. stigma /ˈstɪɡmə/ a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, […]
With an IT skills crisis emerging across Aotearoa, Queer Kiwis looking to up-skill or move into a career in IT are being urged to take advantage of a new government funding scheme launched to help plug the country’s growing IT skills gap. Offering fees-free IT and computing diplomas to NZ citizens or residences the new […]
As the late and exceptionally great Whitney Houston once said, ‘How Will I Know?’ It’s a question many of us ask after a few dates. Is this person the one? Is this getting serious? Should I invest myself in this or have I subconsciously already invested? Dick Richards believes the answer for all of us, […]
We’ve managed to get hold of one of Graham’s exclusive cocktail recipes so, on Saturday 12 June, you can celebrate World Gin Day in style with Graham Norton’s Own Gin range, produced in collaboration with the team at Invivo! There are two gins in Graham Norton’s Own Gin range – one pink and one Irish - and both are distilled in […]
Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at the June dates that shaped Aotearoa’s queer community forever. 29 June 1944 Author and media personality David Hartnell was born in Auckland. In the 1960s he moved to Sydney, becoming Australia’s first male in-store makeup artist. He then moved to the United States where he interviewed the celebrities he […]
Arguably one of the most iconic and desired vehicles in the world, The Range Rover Sport is considered by many as the king of the road – express takes the right-royal four-wheel-drive out to see if it measures up to expectations. To me the Range Rover Sport has always been a head-turner, seeing them on […]