Category: News
The “not ‘just’ a biopic” about Carmen Rupe showcases Mika’s creative vision of the illegal, bustling underground sex scene of 1970’s New Zealand. It’s been an open secret amongst Auckland’s LGBT community that Mika Haka has been entangled in something big as of late. Now the world is set to find out exactly what, with […]
Demi Cox talks to author Lil O’Brien about the inspiration behind her new book Not That I’d Kiss A Girl, The L Word and being the ‘gayest’ person. Your friends describe you as the ‘gayest person they know.’ So, what does a day in the life of Lil O’Brien (aka THE gayest person) look like? […]
All the biggest queer news from the capital brought to you by our new Wellington correspondents Richard Tait and Fraser Shaw. Introducing our new Wellington contributors Richard Tait and Fraser Shaw have been friends for nearly 20 years. They met playing together in a gay touch rugby team that went to the Gay Games in […]
More news confirming homophobia is running rampant in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has mocked the American embassy in Moscow for flying a rainbow flag during global pride month. Putin made the comments in response to a post on the embassy’s official Instagram account which read “today we conclude the celebration of the Month of […]
From the early stages of homosexual law reform, successful gay panic murder defences to a ground-breaking yachtsman – Gareth Watkins examines the July dates that have shaped our queer community. 16 July 1925 A report titled Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders was tabled in Parliament. According to Mr Hawkins, Inspector of Prisons, the “worst pervert […]
Labour MP Louisa Wall speaks exclusively to express on the Manurewa selection race and the role homophobia may have played in her withdrawal. The Labour MP for Manurewa isn’t going anywhere. Despite withdrawing her candidacy to recontest the Labour selection for her safe South Auckland electorate, Louisa Wall is all but guaranteed a return to […]
Turkey’s President has launched an attack on members of the LGBT+ community in a public speech where he defended homophobic comments by the leader of the Turkish version of the Red Cross. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused LGBT+ people in his country of “sneaking up on our national and spiritual values again” and claimed queer […]
After becoming the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, Taiwan holds a pride parade for the entire planet’s LGBTQ population. Taiwan staged a pride parade for the entire planet as one of the few countries (including New Zealand) that can lay claim to having successfully contained COVID 19. Over 200 people gathered in Liberty […]