Category: New Zealand
To celebrate a quarter of a century as Aotearoa’s preeminent rainbow funder, the Trust will take over St Matthew-in-the-City for a night of feasting, entertainment and fundraising on Friday 15 November! “We feel it’s really important to acknowledge the incredible mahi done by a number of amazing people over the past twenty-five years. Without their […]
Recent media coverage of a New Zealand Mpox outbreak reminds Michael Stevens of the stigma faced by HIV+ communities. This year’s Winter Pride saw an outbreak of Mpox (formerly known as Monkey Pox). There was a definite whiff of hysteria in how it was reported. And a number of gay men, especially older ones, feared […]
Labour List MP Glen Bennett describes his love of living in provincial New Zealand, despite the additional challenges it can create for rainbow Kiwis. Living in Taranaki, I get to experience the beauty and simplicity of provincial life every day. There’s something special about being surrounded by nature, with big open skies and the brightest […]
Historian Gareth Watkins highlights October dates as significant for our queer communities. 6 October 1874 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of poet and social worker Ursula Bethell. While she was born in England, Bethell’s parents had previously lived in New Zealand, and by the early 1880s, the family had returned here […]
Lateshift owner/operator Craig Oakley chats to YOUR ex about managing his business through changing times and 35 years of providing a successful community service. Tell us a bit about your background before you became involved in Lateshift. After graduating from Victoria University, I moved to Auckland in 1985. I ran the suit department with Harry […]
The 2024 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards celebrated a competitive array of the country’s top organisations committed to promoting rainbow diversity and inclusion. Held on 3 October in Auckland, the 6th annual awards ceremony saw Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Massey University, clinch the prestigious Partners Life Supreme Award and the Simpson Grierson Impact Award. Booking.com […]
Brian Tamaki, the self-proclaimed Apostle Bishop and head of Destiny Church, is back at it again, attributing a recent earthquake in Wellington to the city’s “Filthy” behaviour. In a recent post on X, Tamaki shared an image of a news report covering the quake, accompanied by the caption, “A Warning Wellington… CLEAN UP YOUR FILTHY […]
Commander Yvonne Gray’s swift decision-making has been credited with saving 75 lives when the navy ship she commanded, HMNZS Manawanui, was lost off the coast of Samoa on Saturday. Gray, originally from Harrogate in the UK, has been in charge of the Manawanui since 2022, and her call to abandon ship came roughly an hour […]