Category: Opinion
Dick Richards realises that dating apps have become the ex he keeps going back to. So how do you break that cycle? After years and years of dating and still never finding the right guy, you ask yourself ‘What is wrong with me?” It’s not news that the gay dating world is harder for us […]
What does James Wallace’s early release say about the legal system’s view of male sexual assault survivors? Asks Michael Stevens. James Wallace, the sex offender and disgraced former knight, is being released from prison early after a Parole Board hearing. He had earlier applied for parole in September. but it appears they weren’t satisfied that […]
Jessie Lewthwaite gives her top money-saving tips for women who love women (WLW). Recently, when I was out at a queer event, I made sure to take a glass of wine with a nice, heavy pour. I grabbed one much the same for my friend and went back to where she was standing. I was […]
Elijah Luke Michel returns to YOUR ex to voice key concerns from the trans community about what the new government means for their wellbeing. I voted National once, when I turned 18. I had no idea about politics or political parties, but a family member insisted I voted and that I voted blue. Once I […]
Do you know what your red flags are? Dick Richards remembers back to some of his worst dates and how they helped him realise what he did and didn’t want. I was hanging out with a friend last week, and she was telling me her dating woes. It took me back to some awkward times […]
With today’s press conference suggesting sexuality and gender identity will no longer be taught in schools, Craig Young wonders if the National/ACT/New Zealand First coalition will be a single-term government? As Josie Pagani noted in a recent Stuff opinion piece globally, centre-right governments are on the retreat. The British Conservative government is doomed. Its recent […]
Jessie Lewthwaite has dating app recommendations for those lucky enough to be ‘new in town.’ I’m lying on my couch, phone in hand, gin in the other, scrolling lazily through a dating app. I have my video game paused in the background as I actually take time to read girls’ profiles, being only one gin-deep. […]
Craig Young questions our legal system’s response to drug and alcohol-fuelled crime and asks whether enough detox and rehab programmes are being funded. My friend Stan Waipouri (1968-2006) didn’t make it to forty. He was murdered by two polydrug users, Ashley Arnopp and Andre Gilling, who were sentenced to imprisonment for his homicide. The […]