Category: New Zealand
In an unprecedented move, it has been announced Culture Club’s Auckland show on 4 December has been cancelled, in addition to their Christchurch show. Full refunds can be obtained by contacting Ticketmaster. Australian dates are still going ahead. If you can’t make it to those shows, have a read of our cover story on Boy George. […]
Image: Facebook We here at express want to apologise to ‘Bishop’ Brian Tamaki and his followers at Destiny Church, on behalf of LGBT+ people, for all the sin that we have caused with our homosexual and transgender ways. We are sorry that our immoral ways and secret agenda of bringing in a “radical gay” to try […]
Elly Crispin has been appointed as the part-time regional coordinator for RainbowYOUTH’s Bay of Plenty region. Her role encompasses establishing peer-support groups in addition to Tauranga’s own TaurangaPryde, as well as arranging training huis for peer-support group facilitators, and helping distribute LGBT+ resources to schools and other community organisations. Crispin already holds certificates in Health […]
New Zealand’s Transgender Day of Remembrance service will be held at 7 pm on Monday 21 November at St Matthew’s in the City in Auckland. The service will include the traditional reading of names of transpeople who have died in the past year. Transgender Day of Remembrance was started back in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann […]
In a major surprise for Body Positive, the passing of Philip Gipson has left them a decent amount of funds. Gipson was heavily involved with Body Positive in a social capacity, and made many friendships. Mark Fisher, CEO of Body Positive, says that they are “really appreciative of it”. Bequests are unusual for Body Positive, […]
It’s called the Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Plan (SRHAP). At first, it looks like a dyslexic spelling of ‘sharp’, but hidden in the mysteries of governmental policy blurb, there’s plenty of important themes for LGBT+ people, not to mention at least one example of a major flaw in approaching human rights issues. What is […]
In these dark times, it’s nice to know that some hunks are stripping off their kits for our viewing pleasure. ‘Unleash the Untamed’ male revue will include performances by former Mr Gay World, Chris Olwage, as well as Carmen Kilss and MJ. Taking place at 8 pm at Privé club (25 Cross Street), the night […]
Brent Thomson has been part of the LGBT+ community for yonks, still able to recollect when the gay club was still on Anzac Ave, and the campaign for the Homosexual Law Reform when he was the leader of UniQ’s predecessor. It’s because of this personal involvement with New Zealand’s history of queer rights that has […]