Category: New Zealand

The winner and finalists of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 2 talk exclusively to express about sisterhood, Down Under Drag and Revealing a winner – baby! Congratulations to the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 2 Spankie ‘Mother Tucking’ Jackzon! Speaking to exclusively to express about their Drag Race journey Spankie said: […]

Two icons of Wellington’s Takatāpui Rainbow communities – Chrissy Witoko (1944-2002) and Carmen Rupe (1936-2011) – are to be honoured with memorial seats in the heart of Wellington’s Rainbow Precinct on Saturday 1 October at 176 Cuba Street. Located on the corner of Cuba and Vivian Streets, the seats are a collaboration between PrideNZ, the […]

Comedian and author Adam Kay claims he visited the sauna with the intention of cheating on his wife; says the rapist “thanked” him afterwards. A British comedian has revealed that he was raped in a sauna while on a trip to New Zealand. Adam Kay was in New Zealand for a medical conference, where the […]

Starring Oscar-nominee Tim Roth alongside emerging Aotearoa talent Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, PUNCH, the new Kiwi film from renowned writer/director Welby Ings, is a pure gay love story, set on our clean-green shores. Rural life is not all ‘rainbow flags and Pride parades’ for young takatāpui, Whetu (Hayes), as he navigates racism and homophobia […]

OutLine Co-Chair Moira Clunie has recently been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to rainbow communities. In a statement, OutLine said they were ‘very proud’ of Clunie who was made an MNZM by Governor-General of New Zealand Dame Cindy Kiro at an investiture ceremony at Government House Auckland […]

Historian Gareth Watkins reviews September dates connected with significant members of the rainbow communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 27 September 1953 Jonathan Dennis, founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive, was born on this day in Taumarunui.  His early years were spent in the Aoraki/Mount Cook region before he was sent to boarding school […]

They say there is a role that every actor was born to play. When Auckland Theatre Company cast the role of Arie in Emily Perkins’ The Made, they found that actor in Hannah Tasker-Poland, a queer progressive-feminist fresh from producing her own first full-length work, The Most Naked. Hannah chats to express about becoming Arie, […]

Scott Kennedy and Malcolm Vaughan, who have owned iconic Wellington venues including Pound nightclub and S&M’s Cocktail Bar, have received Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Awards. In a statement, Wellington’s Mayor Andrew Foster said: “Scott Kennedy and Malcolm Vaughan have been trailblazers in Wellington’s gay scene and history since the early 1990s. Having first met at Mr […]