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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, […]
US President Joe Biden has been urged to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people following findings of a “deliberate effort” to “roll back human rights” in the United States. Making the comments at a UN press conference, the independent UN expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz explained that “equality is not yet within reach and in many cases […]
The United States has reported its first death of a person diagnosed with the monkeypox virus, leaving officials scrambling to investigate if the virus played any role in the death. The death was announced on Tuesday, the 30th of August, by the Texas Department of State Health Services, stating that a “severely immunocompromised” monkeypox patient […]
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 […]
With EuroPride set to take place in Belgrade, Serbia, thousands of Anti-LGBTQ+ Serbians have taken to the streets to protest the inclusive event. The protesters who oppose Belgrade’s plans to host EuroPride on the 17th of September held signs with Absurd religious and homophobic statements, often picturing religious figures. The protest, led by clergy from […]
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 […]