Category: Opinion
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems: My boyfriend is bisexual and asked recently if we could have a threesome with a girl. I didn’t mind at first, but now I’m wondering how it will work. I’m not attracted to women in the slightest, so how do I make sure […]
My flatmates and I just started a bi+ film night. We craved seeing ourselves, and wondered how representations of people attracted to more than one gender might have changed over time. The usual reasons people watch films. Do you know how hard it is to find bi+ storylines? Films with characters who describe themselves as bi+, […]
77-year-old Diane Sparkes, Educator, Writer, and Transgender Advocate, gave express the low-down on what she feels we as a society need to do in order to lower the suicide rate amongst youths in New Zealand. I attended a symposium on LGBT+ Wellness and Suicide back in early 2013. Attended by many people of education and knowledge, […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems: I have a problem. My new girlfriend told me the other day that I’m too clingy. I asked her what she meant and she said I text her too often during the day and expect to see her four or five times a […]
Looks are everything. No really, they are. We’re obsessed with dating apps, with snapping selfies in any state of undress, or gym workout, with showing off tanned abs and toned butts… yep, in 2017, looks are everything. As for gay men, there appears to be even more pressure to look as if recently emerged from […]
Article by Nico Lang, NewNowNext.com A few weeks ago an old friend reached out to me on Facebook with a problem: Anna (not her real name) works at a high-end cosmetics store, where she regularly interacts with gay male customers, many of whom are buying eyeshadow or blush for their latest drag look. A customer […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems: I am devastated. My girlfriend of seven months has been cheating on me… with my ex! I had heard a rumour through a mutual friend but thought it couldn’t be possible as it was my ex who introduced me to my current girlfriend. […]
In an editorial published on Saturday, the New Zealand Herald tried to do their part in the way of LGBT+-progression, but then went on to comment on and disseminate misinformation. The Herald took aim at comments made by newly-minted Mr Gay NZ, Charlie Tredway, who said that HIV-positive people who had undetectable viral loads were also virtually non-infectious. […]