Category: Opinion
Labour’s spokesperson for Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert, says it’s time for us to unite and stand up to a government that doesn’t understand the needs of rainbow communities. I reflect often on the words of Georgina Beyer, who said it best when she said, “People call it courage and bravery. I just call it standing […]
Michael Stevens charts the astonishing rollbacks in DEI policies and trans rights since Donald Trump returned to office—and braces for the impact this will have on New Zealand. It feels like the winds of change are blowing, and not in a way that is good for our communities. Since Trump’s inauguration, there has been a […]
The disco-pop band Village People has been in the news lately, and not for good reasons, explains Craig Young. Witness “YMCA” being played at Donald Trump’s inauguration! and one of the original band members denying that their hit “YMCA” had anything to do with gay men at all. It may be instructive to provide a […]
Elijah Luke Michel reflects on our government’s recent changes to Relationship and Sexuality Education, the potential for President Trump to implement Project 2025, and proposes an agenda of his own. I remember seeing a meme of the Gay Agenda some years back, showing a gay couple sitting on their sofa and listing all the sordid […]
With many feeling nervous about how the new year will play out as Trump steps back into power, Dick Richards recommends ways to tackle 2025 with gratitude and self-esteem. And just like that, the year has ended. What do we have to show for it? I ask myself that every year. 2024 was a strange […]
With 25 years of experience working in the travel industry, visiting all corners of the globe, there isn’t much Linkd Tourism’s General Manager Kylee Kay hasn’t seen. From a nightmare experience to profound beauty and travelling safely as a queer family with her partner and son, she shares her top travel tips. What do you […]
Jessie Lewthwaite skewers old-fashioned heteronormative relationship dynamics. Being in a modern millennial queer relationship means certain traditions must be upheld. We must call our dog our ‘furbaby’`, we must drink iced coffees and we must watch TikToks together before bed. This is just our ‘culture’. One night while participating in the TikTok ritual, one popped […]
Labour’s spokesperson for Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert, stands firm on puberty blocker access. New Zealand has now had a year of the coalition government, and to mark the anniversary, we heard some deliberately misleading murmurs from ACT and Winston Peters about access to puberty blockers. This kind of rhetoric is alarming and ignorant. I would […]