Category: New Zealand
Throughout August, Auckland Pride invites LGBTIQ+ individuals and Tāmaki Makaurau’s rainbow communities to join in the dialogue at their annual series of Auckland Pride Community Hui. Auckland Pride says the feedback from these meetings will directly influence the mahi of the Auckland Pride Board, as well as the Festival Director and Parade Director. Open to everyone, the dates and venues for the […]
The conservative lobby group have slammed the proposed birth certificate changes, saying it proposes “ideology” over biology. Family First have come out against the government’s proposed changes to birth certificates, labelling them “disturbing.” The government is proposing that changes to birth certificates be made with a simple statuary declaration from an individual rather than a […]
Karen O’Leary talks to Oliver Hall about drunkenly stumbling into acting and scoring roles in What We Do in the Shadows, The Breaker Uppers and TV’s top new kiwi comedy Wellington Paranormal. Karen O’Leary accidentally fell into acting! “My official day job is running a community-based early childhood centre,” she explains to express. “One of […]
Northland man Chris Swannell has made history. Chris Swannell has become New Zealand’s first openly gay Anglican Priest. Swanell, who owns a boutique lodge at Russel’s Orongo Bay with his partner of 25 years, Michael Hooper, has served the Russel Community for the past 13 years as a church deacon. The Anglican church previously expected […]
The Kiwi soap opera has won praise for the introduction of its first intersex character. Shortland Street viewers are praising the show after the soap opera introduced its first intersex character. Harper and Drew welcomed their first child Billy during the last week with the baby later revealed to be intersex. Shortly after the new […]
The court was told the Kiwi-born cricketer hurled homophobic abuse at two gay men before knocking two other men unconscious. The alleged assault, which happened in September while Stokes had been partying with England teammates at the Mbargo nightclub after a one-day international against the West Indies. The 27-year-old all-rounder is accused of punching Ryan […]
The announcement comes just days after Pride’s tumultuous AGM. Auckland Chair Cassie Roma has quit the Auckland Pride board just days after the organisation’s annual general meeting. In an email to Auckland Pride members, Roma announced her departure saying “it is with a heavy heart that I have decided that my time with Auckland Pride […]
Playwright Sam Brooks’ new production Burn Her open tonight! Burn Her is set on election night, where a crisis forces an idealistic party leader to decide between her morals and her ambitions to govern. express asks Brooks if protagonist Aria was inspired by Jacinda. “I actually wrote the play two years ago—well before a Labour government […]