Category: News

Oct 12
Glam & Give: A Night For Our Rainbow Community, With Final Bids Closing Tonight

GiveOUT Day’s Glam & Give launch party brought the fabulous faces together, but the fundraising isn’t over! With donations closing at 11.59pm tonight, there’s still time to help raise $150,000 for Rainbow organisations across Aotearoa. Glamour met generosity at GiveOUT Day’s Glam & Give launch party, as supporters came together to celebrate the incredible organisations […]

Oct 10
Namibian Man Found Guilty After Claiming ‘Gay Ghosts’ Caused Fatal Stabbing

A Namibian man who claimed he was fighting off two “gay” figures in his sleep when he fatally stabbed his girlfriend and wounded their baby daughter has been found guilty of murder, attempted murder and assault. A court in Namibia has convicted Johannes Claasen of murdering his girlfriend and attempting to murder their baby daughter […]

Oct 09
Petition Calls for Gender-Neutral Definition of Rape in New Zealand

A new parliamentary petition is calling for New Zealand’s legal definition of rape to be expanded, ensuring survivors receive equal recognition regardless of their gender, anatomy or the nature of the sexual assault. A petition submitted to Parliament is challenging New Zealand’s existing definition of rape, arguing that the law should recognise all forms of […]

Oct 09
US Book Bans Hit New Record With Queer Stories Still in the Firing Line

US public schools recorded a record 11,982 book bans over the past school year, with PEN America saying books featuring LGBTQ+ people, race and racism continue to be disproportionately targeted. Book bans in US public schools have reached their highest level since free-expression organisation PEN America began tracking them five years ago. Its latest Banned […]

Oct 09
Award-Winning Queer Epic La Bola Negra Is Coming To New Zealand Cinemas

One of the year’s most acclaimed queer films is heading to Aotearoa, with La Bola Negra arriving in New Zealand cinemas on 15 October. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — better known collectively as Los Javis — the sweeping Spanish drama spans 85 years, moving between 1932, 1937 and 2017 as the lives […]

Oct 08
EXCLUSIVE | Chlöe Swarbrick: “No One’s Coming to Save Us” 

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick tells YOUR EX’s Oliver Hall what 40 years of Homosexual Law Reform can teach us about the political battles ahead, why she believes politicians have overreached in transgender healthcare, and why coalition agreements are no excuse for compromising people’s dignity  “A new world is on her way.”  Chlöe Swarbrick is […]

Oct 08
Christian Influencer Claims He Met a Very Masculine Jesus During 18-Day Coma

Christian evangelist Gabe Poirot says the Jesus he claims to have encountered while in an 18-day coma was anything but “soft or passive” — describing him as intensely masculine, nearly six feet tall and possessing “testosterone like a Mustang”. A Christian influencer’s highly specific description of Jesus is going viral again after he claimed Christ […]

Oct 07
EXCLUSIVE | David Seymour on Puberty Blockers, Poverty and “Live and Let Live” 

ACT leader David Seymour tells YOUR EX’s Oliver Hall why he backs government intervention in puberty-blocker prescribing, supports legal definitions of men and women, and why being poor in New Zealand today “sucks”  David Seymour’s political philosophy usually begins with a simple proposition: leave people alone.  “I’m live and let live,” the ACT leader tells […]