Category: News
Even though the Trump administration has been systematically stripping trans students of their rights, New York City has taken a stand and issued an guidance saying that teachers must refer to students by their preferred pronouns. By preferred pronouns, the guidance says that it goes beyond the normal binary ‘he’ or she’ and to include […]
AAMI has seized the opportunity to embrace acceptance and draw attention to its humorous campaign for roadside assistance with this delight, that also draws on an Aussie classic, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The ad features Australian queens, Art Simone and Philmah Bocks, on their way to Broken Heel Festival, when their car breaks down […]
In a new commercial for Coca-Cola’s Taste the Feeling campaign, a young woman is shown admiring a handsome boy hired to clean their home swimming pool. Little does she know, her brother is upstairs enjoying the same view from his own window. The advert features a 50’s-style soundtrack and plays on classic Americana imagery. After the siblings longingly […]
Laurel Hubbard will represent New Zealand in the 90kg+ female category at the Australian International later this month. A trans woman being selected for a national team is a landmark point for LGBT+ people. The International Olympic Committee’s Sex Reassignment/Hypoandrogenism Consensus Meeting in 2015 ruled “trans athletes are not [to be] excluded from the opportunity to […]
Registrations for Body Positive’s annual event for HIV-positive men to meet and socialise with other HIV-positive men are now open. The aim of the retreat is provide the opportunity to meet with other HIV positive men, provide opportunities to develop a support network, to create a safe and supportive environment for HIV positive men to […]
Popularly known as sweet and innocent, pop princess Ariana Grande has released her latest video for Everyday ft. Future, and has an important message to share with viewers. Throughout the music video, we witness multiple displays of affection happening in broad daylight – which is usually enough to make most people uncomfortable, yet she has taken […]
Most of the subjects’ faces are hidden or concealed, but it does not detract from new documentary Mr Gay Syria‘s significance in telling an LGBT+ story we do not hear enough. Focusing on two men, Hussein and Mahmoud, gay men who have fled from their homeland Syria to Turkey, Mr Gay Syria follows the establishment of the […]
Tegan and Sara have cancelled their only New Zealand show at the Bruce Mason Theatre in Auckland this Saturday 11 March. Unfortunately, Tegan has fallen ill and lost her voice at the end of the duo’s European tour. The Australian tour has also been postponed as a result. Tegan says (on behalf of the duo), […]