Category: New Zealand

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 […]

In a statement, the charity says their staff nationwide are being given a three-week break from work after suffering “significant loss and tragedy that has left us in a state of deep sadness and grief,” following the loss of a support worker and the Tauranga arson attack on their drop-in centre. The charity will return […]

This is our opportunity to get our monkeypox (MPX) response right – but we all need to be on the same waka. At the time of writing this, Aotearoa New Zealand has recorded 4 official cases of MPX. All had recently travelled from overseas and none are connected, which means no confirmed community spread. So […]

…away! Saturday 10 September will see the biggest drag spectacular to ever grace Palmerston North, Palmy Drag Fest, take over the Regent on Broadway! Drag Race Down Under Season One’s Miss Congeniality Anita Wigl’it tells us about the “strangely arousing spectacle” she will be performing! What can we expect from your performance at Palmy Drag […]

Former TVNZ reporter Arrun Soma is the co-founder of Indian Origin Pride NZ, an organisation helping support communities dealing with the intersectionality of their rainbow and ethnic identities. He speaks to express about his inspiration, marriage and surrogacy journey. Tell us how you personally become involved in Indian Origin Pride New Zealand (IOPNZ)? In early […]

Singer, songwriter and producer Carawei is an artist who has founded her own studio in Ellerslie, focused on LGBTQ+ artists. Ahead of the release of her first full-length LP, ‘The Moon And The Tides’ later this year; she talks to express about her musical inspirations, coming out as trans, and nurturing queer talent. Where were […]