Category: Opinion

Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. I’m finding things tough at the moment. I am 18 years old and have just come out as lesbian to my parents. My dad doesn’t seem too worried, but my mum has retreated into her room and I often hear her crying. I […]

Stephen Rainbow responds to last month’s opinion piece by asking the question: When did the battle for gay rights begin and end with what was achieved in New Zealand? Marking thirty years of Homosexual Law Reform will be an occasion for much reflection, as mentioned in express editor Amy Jane Bedwell’s opinion piece “Never Forget […]

I have a friend who is mostly, but not quite straight. Tom,* until recently, had a long-term girlfriend, yet describes his sexuality as “fluid.” He goes so far as to articulate his romantic preferences as “70:30”: 70 percent straight and 30 percent gay. To the millennial generation, where deviations from heterosexuality are widely accepted, a […]

Fox have released the first teaser trailer to the anticipated remake of queer, cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Needless to say, it looks as camp as ever. The question which really stands is whether such a classic can be successfully remade? After all, the original was a box office failure until unconventional conventionalists […]

  This 25 years old singing contest has seen many weird and wonderful acts; it inspired Lady Gaga and launched into the stardom ABBA and Celine Dione but put the nail in the coffin of Bonnie Tyler’s career and rejected a song written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber. Eurovision is known as the favourite show for gays […]

I remember the moment when marriage equality became law in New Zealand. I was knee deep in a super jug inside a packed student bar, surrounded by friends draped in rainbow flags. We stood up on the leather bench seats as the vote was read, bottom lips pulled into our mouths and fists clenched in […]

Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. I broke up with my ex over a year ago but we’ve remained good friends. I’ve just started dating a lovely guy who I’d like to pursue a long-term relationship with. My ex is happy for me, but this guy does not want […]

Bruce Springsteen, a well known musician and left wing advocate, has been called a “bully” after cancelling his North Carolina concert in protest to the state’s recent anti-LGBT law. HB2, also known as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, is an act to provide for single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and changing facilities in schools and public agencies […]