Category: News
This will be one of very few posts that I will write personally as the digital editor. For those of you express devotees out there, you will have noticed that I have taken over as digital editor, and will be overseeing the content on this website. As such, I’m bringing about a few changes to make express more relevant […]
No Pride for Prisons, the organisation set up initially as an opposition to the inclusion of uniformed police and corrections officers in the Pride parade, has just released their manifesto for the dissolution of the prison system in New Zealand. Although the total abolishment of the current judicial system is rather extreme, and is made […]
Whoopi Goldberg has recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new show, Strut – a show about Slay Model Management, an agency dedicated to serving transgender models exclusively. During her interview, she addresses why asking about a transperson’s junk is a no-no: “it would be like meeting someone and saying […]
The author of the book that inspired the Julia Roberts movie, and made us all contract a bad case of wanderlust, Elizabeth Gilbert, has announced her relationship with fellow writer, Rayya Elias. It was not necessarily a case of magically finding that she was attracted to another female, but rather, figuring out that “she’s my […]
Alexis Arquette was a trail-blazing actress of our generation: featuring in the likes of ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘The Wedding Singer’ and ‘Bride of Chucky’ before transitioning. She knew that transitioning would reduce the number of roles available to her, but it didn’t stop her working and going for roles that didn’t demean and […]
Wild Times at Wigarama 2016 Saturday 10 September Encore Entertainment and Cabaret Images: Aatir Zaidi Wigarama 2016 delivered another spectacular year of performance jam-packed into one stellar evening. With talent from a plethora of different venues, the audience enjoyed an array of different entertainment. Raising money for the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust, patrons turned out […]
Hamilton Pride Launch Party Friday 9 September The Meteor, Hamilton Photos: Aatir Zaidi Hamilton Pride got off to a banger start with the fabulous Launch Party at Hamilton’s The Meteor. With Family Bar’s Miss Ribena emceeing the evening, proud guests were treated to an array of talent from the Tron as well as Auckland visitors; […]
Coinciding with World Suicide Prevention Day, Mika Haka has released his original hit single, ‘Loved Me a Man’ again. Originally premiering in 1991, this gay pop hit was initially banned from being streamed on public radio: that sort of controversy has abated with a more modern New Zealand. What has not changed since then is the […]