Category: News
Recently, well-known community volunteer, Michael Bancroft, has ended a ten year guardianship of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilts and is retiring from almost 30 years of formal involvement with numerous HIV and AIDS support groups. In 2012, Michael, on behalf of the New Zealand Quilt Project (NZQP), was instrumental in handing over the greater part […]
Weddings for Australians in same-sex relationships have officially overtaken local gay marriages within New Zealand, with 58 per cent of them coming from over the ditch. With Australia failing to keep up with the times and adopt same-sex marriage, over 270 couples have undertaken the three hour flight to come to New Zealand and wed […]
Body Positive is extending their Peer Navigation Programme to provide local support to people living with HIV throughout New Zealand No one understands the reality of living with HIV better than someone who experiences it every day. Peer Navigators – specially trained members of the community who are living with HIV – support others who […]
*Update: Monday 15 May Andrade was unsuccessful in attempt to dethrone the Strawweight champion. After a hard fought five round fight the judges all ruled unanimously in her opponent’s favour. In her post fight interview commentator Joe Rogan congratulated Andrade on the heart and toughness she displayed, saying he was confident she had made a […]
Parallel Events + Styling, the team behind last year’s Let’s Get Proud party held during USCA’s (University of Canterbury Students Association) Sexuality Awareness Week, are bringing a one-night-only masked party to Auckland. Galatos is being taken over and transformed into a edgy, promiscuous dance floor with the creative team promising it will be their biggest dance party yet. […]
The sharpest and most exciting men’s event of the year is returning to Auckland in May 2017, hot on the heels of its successful debut appearance in May 2016. BarberCraft is a fun and dynamic celebration of everything a man needs to keep his image sharp; with barber demonstrations and an exhibition featuring a great […]
Oliver Hall checked out the first week of the Flick Electric powered NZ International Comedy Festival and below are some of his highlights Rose Matafeo: Rose Matafeo’s Sassy Best Friend was a comedy masterclass. Matafeo lost the theatrics of her last show, 2016’s Finally Dead (which involved a flashy funeral parlour-themed set and […]
VICE has just launched Zealandia, a New Zealand-focused online documentary series described as “looking beyond the stereotypical pillars of the New Zealand identity to present an honest view of the country”. In the first episode, FAFSWAG: Auckland’s Underground Vogue Scene, VICE spent a week with some of the breakout stars of the LGBT+ Pacific Arts Collective […]