Category: News
Star Observer’s Benedict Brook takes a look at the New South Wales politicians using Grindr to attract votes ahead of tomorrow’s state election. THE chances of Penny Sharpe picking up on Grindr aren’t looking great. For a start, there’s no face pic. This, as regular uses will tell you, is a complete no-no. And secondly, […]
Levi Joule takes a look at Petty and Vindictive the fringe collective responsible for the pride protests and paint splattering of Auckland’s GayTMs and police stations. What do they stand for? To understand Petty and Vindictive one must understand their perception of Auckland’s GLBT community. According to them, the gay community is run by neoliberal […]
David Leyonhjelm will not introduce his ‘Freedom to Marry’ bill to the Australian Senate today as was previously planned. Speaking to Sky News, Leyonhjelm said that his decision not to introduce the ‘Freedom to Marry’ bill was because Tony Abbott’s Liberal party still did not allow a free vote on the issue. “I was going to bring […]
California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a court Wednesday to intervene and allow her to block an incendiary planned ballot measure authorizing the killing of gays and lesbians. Calling the proposed “Sodomite Suppression Act” patently unconstitutional and utterly reprehensible, Harris filed a request with the Superior Court in Sacramento seeking to be relieved of her […]
American cable network HBO has officially cancelled popular gay series Looking. Out.com reports that despite critical acclaim and a small but devoted fan base, Looking won’t see another season, HBO has confirmed. The network issued the following statement: After two years of following Patrick and his tight-knit group of friends as they explored San Francisco in […]
A new ad for online travel company Expedia which features a gay couple has been met with a storm of hatred on Twitter. Attitude.co.uk reports that online travel booking company Expedia has unleashed a Twitter storm after featuring an interracial same-sex couple in its new promotional material. The image – which the company first shared on Twitter […]
A new exhibition by Wellington artist Mark Beehre uses photographs and oral histories to tell the stories of queer men born since gay sex was legalised in New Zealand almost 30 years ago. Mark Beehre’s exhibition, A Queer Existence, runs at Photospace Gallery in Wellington’s Courtenay Place from 10 April to 4 May. Mark says […]
Russia has failed in it’s attempt to block the UN from extending couple benefits to gay and lesbian staff. The vote which took place overnight failed to reverse the United Nation;s Secretary General’s July decision to recognize same-sex marriages of UN staff failed by 80 to 43 Haaretz reports. The decision to extend couple benefits was […]