Category: News
Family Bar & Club is set to GO OFF on Queen’s Birthday weekend, with Auckland Vogue Scene hosting the first Vogue Ball produced independently by the emerging Vogue Community on Saturday 3 June, and the Oceania Pride Aotearoa Fundraiser on Sunday 4. Those of you that attended this year’s Auckland Pride Parade will remember the […]
Article written by Jess Jones, Starobserver.com The UK-based escort and performer Kayden Gray made the inspiring video to come out about his status. A gay porn star has opened up about being HIV-positive in a YouTube video. UK-based escort and performer Kayden Gray made the inspiring video to come out about his status, Pink News has […]
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 […]