Category: News
World AIDS Day is 1 December, and the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) is running their annual street collection. They are doing collections on two days this year: Friday 25 November in Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch; and Thursday 1 December in Auckland. The day will be split into two: a morning shift from 7 am […]
Kesha has been having a hard time of it with the legal system not breaking her contract with producer Dr Luke, but it hasn’t stopped her from forging through and helping those in the LGBT+ community. In a video for Vevo, Kesha outlines why she votes: she does it because “using your voice and your truth, […]
Long-time designer of express, Amy Jane Todd, is handing over the rhinstone-encrusted reigns to Zakk d’Larté. Zakk will take over in November, with December being his first issue. Zakk has had almost five years of experience working in both digital and print, and it’s his flair for elegance that has express excited. In addition to this, his portfolio of […]
Tamati Coffey has been in the New Zealand spotlight for a while now: first as a presenter on What Now?, winning Dancing with the Stars, weatherman for Breakfast, before leaving the land of Aucks to set up a bar with his husband in Rotorua. On Friday, Coffey was named as the Labour Party’s candidate for the Waiariki […]
Earlier this month, New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) announced they were holding a weekly support group for elderly men with HIV. The ten week programme is almost halfway through, so we went to have a chat about how it’s going. The group was initially started by existing NZAF clients who expressed an interest in having […]
All 12 members of the National Gay Media Association (NGMA) of the USA have officially endorsed Hillary Clinton to become the next President. The NGMA is a trade association of the USA’s longest-serving and most award-winning LGBT+ newspapers, with a combined circulation (both print and online) of over one million readers a week. What makes […]
He’s back again with a new music video to go along with the re-release of his single, ‘Love Me a Man’. Along with the catchy chorus (which you hear almost constantly), psychedelic sequences and scenes of Mika looking his ever-fabulous self permeate this video. If you’re feeling a little blue today at work, this will […]
Dolutegravir (Tivicay), an anti-retroviral drug for HIV, has just been approved for funding by Pharmac. In this case, it means that the drug will be fully-funded in public hospitals and the community, so long as specialist-approval is given. Tivicay is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI), which basically means that it stops HIV from replicating (and […]