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Playwright Sam Brooks’ new production Burn Her open tonight! Burn Her is set on election night, where a crisis forces an idealistic party leader to decide between her morals and her ambitions to govern. express asks Brooks if protagonist Aria was inspired by Jacinda. “I actually wrote the play two years ago—well before a Labour government […]
A new study out of France has indicated that PrEP could be used as an on-demand “before and after” sex pill, instead of a daily medication as it is currently being used. The results from the ongoing Prevenir observational study, have provided further evidence that so-called on-demand PrEP may be an effective strategy for preventing […]
“The feeling behind why a man is gay is because, in a lot of ways like other men that have had harder upbringings, they’ve fallen into a place where they haven’t been loved” the ‘man up’ organiser claims. Brain Tamaki drew a large crowd in Wanganui for his ‘man up’ Hui, but not all were […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”1639″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Furry Fridays Friday 20 July Furry Fridays is the Auckland Bear night that takes place on the third Friday of every month. Each month the bears and their admirers take over a different venue for a night of a night of frivolity including prize raffles […]
The small Mid-Atlantic US state of Delaware has joined the likes of New York, Hawaii, and Rhode Island in banning the dangerous and controversial practice known as “conversion therapy.” The new law known as SB 65 was officially signed into law by the states Democratic Governor, John Carney, making Delaware the 15th state to ban the practice of conversion […]
The veteran entertainer has been told to “shut and retire,” after making the transphobic comments. Barry Humphries is under fire after making a number of controversial comments about the Transgender community to UK publication Spectator. Speaking to the conservative publication on the topic of his famous Dame Edna character, Humphries, called “transgenderism” a “fashion.” “How […]
Wellington drag king Hugo Grrrl talks to Oliver Hall about coming out as a trans man and NZ’s booming subculture of Drag Kings. For the last three years, Hugo Grrrl has been New Zealand’s only full-time professional drag king. The masculine equivalent of a drag queen, usually performed by queer women and people assigned […]
One gay Kiwi couple who have just become new parents to a baby boy are calling on the government to change the rules around adoption. Speaking on TVNZ1’s Breakfast program, with their six-week-old baby son Francis, Christian Newman and Mark Edwards said they have spent years battling to have the right to become parents which […]