Category: New Zealand
The Media Council and Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) have dismissed all complaints against media reporting of the visit and protests surrounding anti-trans activist Posie Parker to Aotearoa. Parker, whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, abandoned a rally in Auckland’s Albert Park due to counter-protests against her anti-trans views. She was covered in tomato juice, surrounded […]
Global cases of Mpox (formerly Monkeypox) have continued to drop since the 2022 outbreak, and now Te Whatu Ora have changed the way you can access the vaccine. MPox has had nearly 90,000 cases in 114 countries leading to 157 deaths worldwide, but despite initial fears the disease could spike during the WorldPride and the […]
Winter Pride owners and organisers Martin King and Mike Hughes (aka South Pacific Pride) have hung up their ski boots, announcing that this year’s festival was their last. The duo have run Winter Pride for six years; the festival which was previously known as Gay Ski Week QT, had previously run for 14 years before […]
Launching tonight, GiveOUT Day is four days of national fundraising giving to LGBTQ+ community groups and not-for-profit organisations. Last year was the inaugural GiveOUT Day held in New Zealand, and the hugely successful event raised nearly $60,000 for the 13 rainbow organisations that participated. Organisers The Rainbow NZ Charitable Trust will launch GiveOUT Day 2023 […]
Co-leader of Te Pāti Māori, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, talks about putting herself in uncomfortable spaces, rebelling against conservative capitalism, and uplifting takatāpui. It was not easy to get an interview with the Co-leader of Te Pāti Māori Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, but boy, was she worth the effort. One of the most down-to-earth politicians we spoke with. In […]
In our exclusive interview, the ACT leader talks free speech, judging people on race, and why he’s “more of a Mahatma Gandhi guy!” A friend who works out of the same Newmarket building as David Seymour told me that he often sees him arriving by 7am and not leaving till nearly 10pm, so it should […]
The Green Party Co-Leader discusses what led her into politics, why we need more wāhine Māori in leadership, and whether she could ever form a government with National. “Growing up in a family of activists, I was always encouraged to stand up for collective justice that would help communities with lesser power,” Marama Davidson tells […]
The Leader of the Opposition talks gay bars, pink flights, and his hopes for his children if they ever came out. National Party leader Christopher Luxon has never been to a gay bar, he tells us over Zoom on Wednesday 28 June. “But I’m not averse to doing so,” he assures us with a smile. […]