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The United States Supreme Court has put a stop to plans made by a private Orthodox Jewish university to ban LGBTQ+ student groups on their campus. The Supreme Court’s decision was made after the Yeshiva University filed an emergency motion to block a previous lower court order by New York judge Lynn Kolter ordering the […]
Organisers of the EuroPride march are being forced to find an alternative route after Serbian police officially banned the original route following mass anti-LGBTQ+ protests. EuroPride, which is hosted in a different European city each year, was due to take place in Belgrade on Saturday, the 17th of September, as part of Serbia’s bid for […]
Sri Lanka’s Government has confirmed that they will not oppose a proposed bill aiming to decriminalise homosexuality. The announcement, made by the president of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on the 11th of September, marks a significant step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the nation where Same-sex relationships are currently illegal. Proposed by MP Premnath C […]
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, […]