Category: News

Aug 08
Apple CEO Reaches Out to LGBTI Youth at LoveLoud Festival

Tim Cook, the openly gay CEO of the world’s most profitable company, has shared an empowering and motivating message to LGBTI youth. 57-year-old Cook, who describes himself as an “uncle, a sports nut, a CEO, a lover of the beautiful Utah outdoors … and a proud gay American,” appeared on stage at the LoveLoud Festival in Salt […]

Aug 05
Auckland Pride Board Chair Resigns

The announcement comes just days after Pride’s tumultuous AGM. Auckland Chair Cassie Roma has quit the Auckland Pride board just days after the organisation’s annual general meeting. In an email to Auckland Pride members, Roma announced her departure saying “it is with a heavy heart that I have decided that my time with Auckland Pride […]

Aug 05
Apology from Alaska Airlines After Separating Gay Couple in Favour of Straight Couple

Alaska Airlines has apologised after kicking a gay couple out of their seats so that a straight couple could sit together and has claimed that it didn’t intend to discriminate. The airline’s public apology followed an upset David Cooley, who claimed that he and his partner were told that they would be unable to sit […]

Aug 04
Australian Study Highlights Greater Difficulty for Bisexual People to Come Out

Young bisexual Australians may find it far more difficult to come out of the closet when compared to their gay and lesbian counterparts according to a new Australian survey. The survey which was titled the What’s Up In Your World poll was conducted by the Radio station Triple J, and took a look at 11,000 people aged 18 to […]

Aug 03
Feeling The Burn

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 […]

Aug 03
Research Suggests that “on-demand PrEP” Could Work for Gay Men

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 […]

Jul 30
Destiny Church Hui Organiser Likens Homosexuality to Alcoholism

“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 […]

Jul 30
Furry Fridays @ Bulls and Bears

[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 […]