Category: New Zealand
Levi Joule takes a look at Petty and Vindictive the fringe collective responsible for the pride protests and paint splattering of Auckland’s GayTMs and police stations. What do they stand for? To understand Petty and Vindictive one must understand their perception of Auckland’s GLBT community. According to them, the gay community is run by neoliberal […]
A new exhibition by Wellington artist Mark Beehre uses photographs and oral histories to tell the stories of queer men born since gay sex was legalised in New Zealand almost 30 years ago. Mark Beehre’s exhibition, A Queer Existence, runs at Photospace Gallery in Wellington’s Courtenay Place from 10 April to 4 May. Mark says […]
Tamati Coffey and his partner Tim Smith opened their new lounge bar ‘Ponsonby Rd’ in Rotorua last night. Mr Coffey and his partner, Tim Smith, told the Rotorua Daily Post they were committed to living and working in Rotorua after Mr Coffey missed out on winning the Rotorua electorate seat in September’s general election. “We […]
Auckland Council’s Community Development and Safety Committee has voted 7 – 2 to allow the creation of a rainbow advisory board to proceed. In an impassioned plea to colleagues before the vote, chairperson Cathy Casey talked of the challenges Auckland’s GLBT community still faced and expressed her view that the advisory board was long overdue saying […]
The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre has welcomed the 500,000th visitor through the doors of the beautiful Pah Homestead since opening to the public less than five years ago. The Wallace Arts Trust have been tracking visitor numbers since the Arts Centre opened in August 2010 and one lucky visitor marked this milestone on Saturday […]
David Walliams and Alan Cumming are both on the list of international guests at this year’s writers festival. Now in its 15th year, the Auckland Writers Festival plays host to more than 150 writers over five days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free family events. The Festival saw a […]
2013 Auckland mayoral candidate Stephen Berry has slammed the current proposal for a Auckland council ‘rainbow advisory panel.’ Speaking to Levi Joule, he explains why he is opposed to the advisory panel as well as other GLBT related expenditure. Auckland council will tomorrow decide on whether the proposed Rainbow Advisory panel will proceed. If created, the panel would […]
Auckland’s Basement Adult Shop & Cruise Club has been burgled. Located on Canada street, Newton, The Basement is a adult shop and popular cruise lounge. Basement co owner Neil Bartlett told express that the burglary occurred at around 5.45am Monday morning, when over $1500 of stock was stolen from the premises. The main stock stolen was […]