Category: Opinion
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. […]
With Auckland Pride over, we decided to take a look at exactly what this Festival means to our Rainbow community and how important it is for the tradition to continue. There’s a reason it’s called Pride. There’s a reason the emblem of this annual festival is girdled in the colours of the rainbow, the defiant, […]
Last night, an amazing Valentine’s treat was installed for the audience attending the opening of Hot Brown Honey – a sizzling celebration of loud, proud women of colour. The show promises an “audacious platter of dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease and song,” and it certainly was. The one-hour show was an absorption of brilliant escapades of music and dance […]
It’s that time of year where we get to watch a bunch of films, which only made it to New Zealand about a week ago, fight it out to be recognised by a committee that’s more diverse than ever, but still mostly old white men. It’s the Oscars! In case if you didn’t know, it’s named […]