Category: New Zealand
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation have announced that their annual BIG GAY OUT for 2022 has been cancelled due to concerns around “the safety of the communities and organisations” that attend the event. The free event, which attracts 15,000 to 20,000 people, has become one of the ket events in Auckland Pride, however with […]
K-Road’s Popular G.A.Y Nightclub has been confirmed as a location of interest linked to the current Delta outbreak. According to the Ministry of Health, the club was visited by a Covid Positive person between the times of 1.45 am and 3 am on Saturday the 8th January. Anyone who was at the location between those […]
Bear New Zealand are calling out for contestants to enter the annual Mr Bear NZ competition and represent Aotearoa in the Bear community here and abroad! Gentlemen, start your engines – and may the best Bear win! If you are keen to participate in the Mr Bear New Zealand contest on January 28 at the […]
Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, just released her aptly titled new album Time Flies, which she began recording in 2019. She tells Oliver Hall how pandemic restrictions helped her find greater confidence and reminisces about coming out, travelling the world and meeting her wife. Tell us a bit about your new album Time Flies? I started […]
Discrimination in the housing market, as well as structural issues such as poverty, racism and instability, are placing Takatāpui and LGBTIQ+ people at higher risk of homelessness, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, have found. The research was led by Research Fellow Dr Brodie Fraser from the Department of Public Health, who interviewed people […]
A new LGBTTQIA+ mural by artist Pounamu Wharekawa (Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) is brightening up Centre Place Shopping Centre in Hamilton’s city centre. The mural, titled ‘A Joyful Meeting’, is a celebration of and for rainbow communities in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, and is a joint project by Centre Place and Wintec’s Āniwaniwa Alliance. Wharekawa, who is […]
Parliament has unanimously passed the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill. The minister responsible for the bill’s success tells express she’s “still on a high!” The bill will make it easier for gender-diverse people to amend their gender on their birth certificates. Trans New Zealanders will no longer have to present supporting medical documentation […]
Aucklanders are finding it difficult to access the safe sex drug following Lockdown, and Pharmac are slow to make the necessary adjustments to help. Auckland’s ongoing COVID-19 restrictions have highlighted flaws in eligibility for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PreP). PreP reduces the risk of HIV infection by 99 per cent. The drug is fully funded for those […]