Category: Opinion

Jul 10
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way.

Around 60% of us don’t have Wills. What a mess we can leave. Not to mention fights over badly made Wills.  If you don’t have a Will, your family won’t know your wishes, and your property will be divided by law, which may not be what you want. You have no control over who administers […]

Jul 09
Ask Agony Aunt Lisa – Pet Seperation

Rainbow Counsellor Lisa Michelle is here to help with your problems. Q) My partner left me a week ago. I am okay – things weren’t working out between us anyway – but we have a 3-year-old dog together and he wants to take her with him. I am more heartbroken over losing the dog. How can […]

Jul 08
Kiss and Tell – Bathroom Escapades and Gay but Straight?

All the gossip that had Gay New Zealand chirping. Who was kindly asked to leave Martini Day celebrations for hogging the loo? She wasn’t alone either! But we suspect it was more up the nose than down the throat. He has the looks, the voice and the X factor but what has the express rumour […]

Jul 06
Ask Agony Aunt Lisa – Boycott The Wedding

Rainbow Counsellor Lisa Michelle is here to help with your problems. Q) My cousin is getting married in September and he has invited me, but not my girlfriend of nine years. I really want to go, but am hurt they won’t allow her to come because they hate that we are lesbian. Do I go without […]

Jul 06
Single with Cats?

Roz is a single young lesbian making her way in the world with fears of looniness and dying with her home over run by cats. I have a confession to make. As with so many things in life that come to annoy us, I’ve been as guilty of the following misdemeanour as everyone else who […]

Jul 04
Pride, In the Name of Love

Why Auckland Pride is still relevant. First there was Hero and now Pride. Auckland has now hosted two Pride Festivals and planning for the third, to be held in 2015, is already underway. Many older members of the rainbow community question it’s relevance now that we have gained equal rights here in Aotearoa. “Why is […]

Jun 28
Pride, In the Name of Love

Why Auckland Pride is still relevant. First there was Hero and now Pride. Auckland has now hosted two Pride Festivals and planning for the third, to be held in 2015, is already underway. Many older members of the rainbow community question it’s relevance now that we have gained equal rights here in Aotearoa. “Why is […]

Jun 09
Changing Times

Auckland high school teacher Dan Eichblatt writes about his experience of starting his high school’s first queer youth group. Just over a year ago, New Zealand became the first country in Oceania, and the fifteenth in the world, to welcome marriage equality. GLBTI voices had not had such prominence in the mainstream media since the […]