Category: New Zealand
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 […]
The openly gay kiwi athlete is heading to the world rowing championship once again. Robbie Manson has qualified for New Zealand’s spot in the single sculls at the world rowing championships with an impressive win over 2016 Olympic gold medallist Mahe Drysdale. Speaking to reporters after the event, Manson said he was pleased with the result […]
express magazine and LGBT+ History enthusiast Gareth Watkins take a look back at July throughout the years, noting the important dates for New Zealand’s rainbow community. 5 Jul 1936 Photographer Robert Gant dies. Born in England Gant moved to New Zealand at the age of 21, living in Wairarapa and Wellington. Gant’s visual interests include […]