Category: Opinion
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 […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems: I’m very frustrated with my family. I’m a 21-year-old Iranian M2F trans woman born in NZ, and when I came out two years ago my family surprisingly accepted it. Now I have a girlfriend and my parents are upset because it’s okay to […]
Article:Katherine Wolfgramme for Star Observer With the world’s media courting trans issues – whether it online, current affairs programmes, in the papers, or reality television – trans visibility is at an historic high. But as a trans gender woman I can’t help but wonder, in amazement, how has this come to be? In what was […]