Category: Opinion
Article and photo: Star Observer “I forgot to ask whether you’ve been with a trans guy before?” He hadn’t. “Well, you’ve been with a guy before? And you’ve been with a woman before? All right then,” I told him, “you’ll be fine.” Steve* from Grindr is an extremely decent lay and hasn’t once been weird […]
Mark Hangartner, chair of the Auckland Rainbow Church, reaches out to our Christian LGBT+ readers and gives us a message of hope and community. A shortened version of this message was published in our December 2016 issue. At Christmas, we reflect on the life of a person who was born in a cattle-shed and […]
Bah humbug, I hate Christmas! I’m a single gay guy and this is my loneliest time of year. Everyone goes away with family or partners and I’m left hooking up with the dregs on Grindr. When will it be my turn to have happy holidays? Your turn is right now if you create it! Those […]
Looking at the broad phases in the history of Auckland’s gay nightclub scene, there are interesting parallels with three of the most well-known events of 20th-century gay history. From the 1940s to the 1990s in Aotearoa, there was a paradigm shift in attitudes to human sexuality. Also increasingly, change is argued in terms of objective/scientific […]
Scream Hallelujah! Summer is finally here! Our electric blankets are tucked back into the cupboard, the fake fur throw you’ve dozed and dribbled on is bundled away, and the drawer you stuffed your shorts and singlets into six months ago is screaming to be opened. But the winter wasn’t kind. The nights were cold and […]
I am in my first lesbian relationship. I’ve been seeing a woman for three weeks now and we want to have sex, but I don’t know how. Nothing online seems helpful, and I’m too shy to tell her it’s my first time with a woman. She is starting to think I’m not attracted to her. […]
It’s called the Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Plan (SRHAP). At first, it looks like a dyslexic spelling of ‘sharp’, but hidden in the mysteries of governmental policy blurb, there’s plenty of important themes for LGBT+ people, not to mention at least one example of a major flaw in approaching human rights issues. What is […]
I didn’t want to write a review for Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys mainly because I’d already done an interview with two of the three people involved. But the thing is, after going to their premiere performance on Monday night, I can’t help but feel that I need to share the heart-wrenchingly cuteness […]