Category: News
The owners of a Ponsonby bar and restaurant, and an express favourite, AdamArnold, are using their business to raise money for victims of the Manchester terror attack. Originally hailing from Leeds, Tobias Roebuck-Ward, 28, chose to settle in Auckland after falling in love with New Zealand’s tolerant culture and diverse society. Tobias left his job in risk […]
Nike has released a preview of its latest BETRUE collection, which will be available 1 June on NikeLab.com, to commemorate LGBT+ Pride Month. Every June, rainbow parades explode across the globe in honour of LGBT+ Pride Month, which has been celebrated since the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York. Nike, who in February launched a special EQUALITY initiative, […]
The 35th International Candlelight Memorial events were recently hosted in Wellington and Auckland with the theme, Ending AIDS Together. All four government parties sent letters that were read by representatives of RainbowYOUTH, GALS and the Ahakoa Te Aha lifted the spirits through song. Michael Bancroft, who recently stepped down as Guardian of the NZ AIDS Memorial […]
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Body Positive are both organisations at the forefront of fighting HIV in New Zealand. They offer health services and counselling for those living with HIV, and for people who are at risk. Not only do they provide free testing and support, but they’re both part of the Ending HIV […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com Ireland appears on the verge of electing its first openly gay prime minister. Leading candidate Leo Varadkar would also be the country’s first Asian leader, and at 38 the youngest person to lead Ireland, NBC News reported. “I honestly don’t think in 1981 when I first got elected that I […]
A gay man from North Carolina was recently detained after a flight from New York to Raleigh-Durham airport, when a flight attendant reported him for allegedly touching his son inappropriately during the flight. Henry Amador-Batten, a 52-year-old foster father, was flying with 5-year-old son, Benjamin. They were on their way home having come from Puerto […]
Bold Theatre, Fresh Dance, Mana Māori, Mana Pasifika – Kia Mau Festival Returns! New Zealand’s only contemporary indigenous theatre and dance festival, Kia Mau Festival, will return to Wellington from Friday 2 – Saturday 24 June. A heart-warming cultural celebration, led by Wellington’s own Māori and Pasifika theatre and dance companies, the Festival provides […]
If you have not yet heard of “stealthing” you have not been living under a rock. But as the covert act incurred a rape conviction against a man in Switzerland this year, it’s a practice you need to know about, particularly if you’re engaged in casual sexual encounters. From the word “stealth”, stealthing is the […]