Category: New Zealand
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 […]
Wellington drag king Hugo Grrrl talks to Oliver Hall about coming out as a trans man and NZ’s booming subculture of Drag Kings. For the last three years, Hugo Grrrl has been New Zealand’s only full-time professional drag king. The masculine equivalent of a drag queen, usually performed by queer women and people assigned […]
One gay Kiwi couple who have just become new parents to a baby boy are calling on the government to change the rules around adoption. Speaking on TVNZ1’s Breakfast program, with their six-week-old baby son Francis, Christian Newman and Mark Edwards said they have spent years battling to have the right to become parents which […]