Category: New Zealand
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 […]
“The feeling behind why a man is gay is because, in a lot of ways like other men that have had harder upbringings, they’ve fallen into a place where they haven’t been loved” the ‘man up’ organiser claims. Brain Tamaki drew a large crowd in Wanganui for his ‘man up’ Hui, but not all were […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”1639″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Furry Fridays Friday 20 July Furry Fridays is the Auckland Bear night that takes place on the third Friday of every month. Each month the bears and their admirers take over a different venue for a night of a night of frivolity including prize raffles […]