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The recently re-elected Canadian Prime Minister is now going viral after a video emerged of him not being able to say “LGBTQ+”. Returned to office earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now going viral in a video showing him unable to correctly say “LGBTQ+”. While the video is only now doing the rounds, […]
Just days after the announcement that Drag Race Down Under will be returning to our screens, 12 queens have been announced to shake up the second season of Canada’s Drag Race. The show, which will be dropping from the 14th of October, features Drag Race season 11 runner-up Brooke Lynn Heights, returning as a main […]
As police investigate a couple accused of breaching Auckland’s level 4 restrictions, Cruz published their names on Facebook. Christchurch Gay Bar Cruz has weighed into the controversy surrounding an Auckland couple who allegedly broke level 4 restrictions by flying to the South Island, by naming them on Facebook. The couple – a 26-year-old female and […]
After 28 seasons the Power Rangers series is being transformed by welcoming its first character officially belonging to the LGBTQ+ community. Filmed right here in Auckland New Zealand, and now in its 28th season, fans learn that the young Izzy – better known as the Green Ranger and played by Tessa Rao – is queer, […]
The Justice Committee’s call for submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill has closed, with over 100,000 written submissions received from members of the public. This represents the highest ever number of submissions received on a bill in New Zealand. For the committee’s initial hearings on the bill, it has formed two subcommittees which […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming back Down Under for Season Two. Click here to find out how to apply to be a contestant on the show! Start your engines Aotearoa, your queen is back and looking to add to the royal family. The Emmy Award-winning series RuPaul’s Drag Race is returning Down Under for a second season, […]
Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at significant September dates that impacted Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities. 28 September 1921 This year marks the centenary of the birth of Bruce Mason – one of New Zealand’s most significant playwrights. Mason wrote over thirty plays, with The Pohutukawa Tree and End of the Golden Weather being two […]
Winter Pride organiser says his ‘patron’s access’ model had detailed terms and conditions that made it ‘clear’ tickets were not refundable, even if the festival was cancelled. Winter Pride’s Director is defending his policy to refund tickets only partially for this year’s cancelled festival in the wake of confusion amongst ticket holders, some of whom […]