Category: New Zealand
Wigarama wowed audience for another year, showcasing talent from all around New Zealand while raising money for the Cartier Trust, a charitable organisation created by community heroine Karen Ritchie. The Cartier Charitable Trust, formerly the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust, was established in the memory of Ritchie’s late friend Courtney Cartier, a drag artist who passed […]
Image: stuff.co.nz Taranaki man Nigel Allan Hauauru Nelson has been charged with 33 counts of sexual offences over a twenty year period. According to a report from Radio New Zealand, Nelson was on trail for charges of unlawful sexual connection, sexual exploitation of people under the age of eighteen, indecent assault, and rape. Overseen by […]
This will be one of very few posts that I will write personally as the digital editor. For those of you express devotees out there, you will have noticed that I have taken over as digital editor, and will be overseeing the content on this website. As such, I’m bringing about a few changes to make express more relevant […]
No Pride for Prisons, the organisation set up initially as an opposition to the inclusion of uniformed police and corrections officers in the Pride parade, has just released their manifesto for the dissolution of the prison system in New Zealand. Although the total abolishment of the current judicial system is rather extreme, and is made […]
Wild Times at Wigarama 2016 Saturday 10 September Encore Entertainment and Cabaret Images: Aatir Zaidi Wigarama 2016 delivered another spectacular year of performance jam-packed into one stellar evening. With talent from a plethora of different venues, the audience enjoyed an array of different entertainment. Raising money for the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust, patrons turned out […]
Hamilton Pride Launch Party Friday 9 September The Meteor, Hamilton Photos: Aatir Zaidi Hamilton Pride got off to a banger start with the fabulous Launch Party at Hamilton’s The Meteor. With Family Bar’s Miss Ribena emceeing the evening, proud guests were treated to an array of talent from the Tron as well as Auckland visitors; […]
Coinciding with World Suicide Prevention Day, Mika Haka has released his original hit single, ‘Loved Me a Man’ again. Originally premiering in 1991, this gay pop hit was initially banned from being streamed on public radio: that sort of controversy has abated with a more modern New Zealand. What has not changed since then is the […]
Unicode, the organisation which regulates new emojis, has rejected an application put forward by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation to include a condom emoji because it was not supported by leading technology companies. A lack of support from Google and Facebook has seen the NZAF’s hopes of having a condom emoji included in Unicode’s repertoire […]