Category: News
Normally there are only five ‘reactions’ on Facebook besides the standard ‘Like’ — Heart, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry — but in honour of Pride month, Facebook’s rolling out a new one. The social media giant announced in a post on Saturday, “We believe in building a platform that supports all communities. So we’re celebrating love […]
Article written by Jess Jones, Starobserver.com The internet has decided that the titular monster from the 2014 film The Babadook is our new queer icon, just in time for Australia’s Pride Month. As Buzzfeed has reported, the film somehow made its way into Netflix’s LGBT+ Movie section. While the categorisation may have been in error, […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com Margaret Court has made further bizarre comments about the LGBTI community, following her recent letter stating she will boycott Qantas over its support of marriage equality. In an interview with Vision Christian Radio, Court spoke about religion, sexuality, and gender. Court claimed that trans children have been influenced by adults, […]
When it comes to identity, a new LGBTQA short film argues, “six letters will never be enough” and features a series of interpretive dance vignettes — each corresponding to a word associated with LGBTQA identity. To celebrate Pride Month, Equinox — a high performance lifestyle company — and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy have collaborated to produce an almost five-minute short film […]
Multi-platinum-selling artist, multiple Grammy Award winner and music icon, Lionel Richie, announced today he will tour New Zealand in October on the All the Hits Tour. Paul Dainty, President and CEO of TEG-DAINTY, said in a statement, “Lionel Richie is one of music’s greatest icons with the greatest line up of hits, his live shows […]
26-year-old Lacey Baker is no stranger to making a stand for what she believes in. She is an avid skateboarder amongst a mostly male-dominated sport, and stands strong when it comes to supporting gender equality. As a well-recognised voice in the LGBT+ community, Baker is showing her love for Pride month with the help of […]
Returning in 2017 after a hugely successful debut last year, the Pacific Dance Festival will launch an all new programme, running 15–24 June at Mangere Arts Centre in Auckland. Born out of the Pacific Dance Choreographic Laboratory (since 2009), the festival provides an opportunity for Pacific choreographers to create, develop, and perform original dance works […]
Maxi Shield, one of Sydney’s beloved drag queens and community leaders, is the star of a new video convincing gay men to get tested for HIV, and other STIs, more often. LGBT+ health organization ACON created the video to coincide with the New South Wales’ HIV Testing Week. The video follows Shield’s highly-camp journey through a sexual […]