Category: Opinion
Ramon Te Wake compares our mental health to a relationship, one that has to be worked on every day to ensure its health and happiness. Depressed? Get used to it! No seriously, get used to it. Cause it’s not going anywhere, anytime, soon. You might think that’s cruel, even disrespectful, but getting to know its […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Michel is here to help with your queer issues. This month he tackles a light-fingered lover and explaining a parent’s transition to your grandchildren. I helped my new girlfriend get a job at the retail outlet I manage and the other day when going over security footage I was dismayed to see […]
In a recent interview, gay pop pioneer Boy George’s referred to non-binary pronouns as modern-day attention-seeking. Poet Essa May Ranapiri says that this attitude is indicative of a wider problem. Cis insecurity has destroyed the conversation about us. Respecting people’s pronouns is the least you can do, but it is not a big thing. It […]
Our annual celebration of all things LGBTIQ+ is here! Ramon Te Wake examines the power of words, kind and otherwise, during Pride. With Pride set to burst around the corner like a heatwave on heat, it’s energy presents a polarizing time for the LGBTIQ+ communities. Just as the acronym is ever-evolving so is the seeming […]
The Conversion Therapy Action Group’s Harry Robson urges all New Zealander’s to take action to get the damaging practise outlawed. Conversion therapy is an issue which matters for all New Zealanders. If we cannot ensure our vulnerable and youth are not preyed upon by those filled with hate and malice then it is conceited of […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Michel is here to help with your queer issues. I’m livid about my work situation and am on the verge of walking out. Two of us were up for promotion and I was told I was a shoo-in. I’ve been there longer, have taken fewer sick days and I’m way more knowledgeable […]
Shaneel Lal asks the question that needs to be shouted from every corner of the LGBTQIA+ community. We live in a peculiar time. It seems as though our current representatives invariably love a PR opportunity to talk about their unconditional support for our long-suffering Rainbow community, yet when given the opportunity to act on their words, time and time […]
30 months on from PrEP first being available in NZ, Body Positive Executive Director Mark Fisher tells us about Australia’s new PrEP guidelines on event-based dosing for gay and bisexual men. PrEP debuted in NZ with the NZPrEP trial for 150 people in Auckland in Feb 2017. PrEP was funded in March 2018 and since […]