Category: News
OUTLineNZ and Malcolm Pacific Dinner Friday 23 September Vivace Restaurant, 50 High Street Photos: Maria Bumanglag Community organisation OUTLineNZ has partnered financially with Malcolm Pacific Immigration and celebrated with a dinner at Vivace. Trevor Easton, General Manager of OUTLineNZ, says “we are extremely excited about this partnership. David [Cooper, Director of Client Service at Malcolm […]
Article: Sydney Star Observer Australian HIV advocates are celebrating the news that scientists working on a cure for HIV infection in the UK have had a massive breakthrough in their research after a 44 year old male patient in the study showed no signs of HIV after treatment. Fifty patients are part of the trial […]
Image: Facebook After six and a half years, Akersten has left his job as editor of SameSame.com.au and moved on as digital and social media manager of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. As his former team, we at express wish him the best of luck!
It is no secret to anyone that the LGBT+ community and religion have not seen eye-to-eye for quite a bit of time. However, New Zealand churches are progressing, being led by St Matthews-in-the-City, Ponsonby Baptist and All Saints Ponsonby – walking in Pride parades and affirming same-sex couples. Obviously, with such animosity between Christianity and […]
Image and story: AP A cultural Massimadi festival in Haiti has been cancelled after threats were made to members of the organising foundation. Massimadi, a portmanteau of massissi and madivine (pejoratively referring to gays and lesbians in Creole), is a word used to describe the Afro-Carribean LGBT+ community. The festival itself was launched in 2009 […]
Some of you may have seen him polishing glasses at his decadent restaurant, Adam Arnold, on Ponsonby Road – all remnants of Lulu’s cafe have been painted over (and over and over again). His name is Tobias Ward, and he’s express’s newest monthly online columnist. He will be writing about all things hospitality-related – etiquette, food, drinks, […]
Image: The Fight Mag Sex toy manufacturers, Perfect Fit, have teamed up with trans gender porn star, Buck Angel, to create the world’s first FTM specific pleasure toy. The “Buck-Off” is the first pleasure product created specifically for female-to-male trans people. Using up-to-the-minute technology, as well as Angel’s own personal vision on how a sex toy […]
Led by the incomparable queer legend, Boy George, ’80s chart toppers Culture Club will be playing Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Friday 2 and Vector Arena, Auckland on Sunday 4 December 2016. Alongside flamboyant frontman, Boy George, comes Mikey Craig on bass guitar, Roy Hay on guitar and keyboards, Jon Moss playing drums and percussion. As the first multi-racial […]