Category: Opinion
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 […]
Elijah Luke Michel discusses the need for trans recognition, remembrance and role modelling in film and television as Transgender Day of Remembrance approaches (Wednesday 20 November). I find it fascinating that there’s only one day each year – for those who are aware of it – dedicated to remembering the lives lost by people in […]
As Americans head to the polls to pick the next President of the United States, YOUR ex takes a look at both candidates and how they compare regarding LGBTQ+ rights. It’s no surprise that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris take starkly different approaches to LGBTQ+ protections and policies. As a large […]
Eli Luke Michel ‘thinks of the children’ and discusses the medication subscribed to trans kids entering puberty. “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” It’s a popular line in the animated sitcom The Simpsons whenever the town is thrown into chaos, but it’s also pertinent to the issue of transgender children having access to hormone blockers. It’s […]
Jessie Lewthwaite says ‘love languages’ are a straight man’s concept, so she has created some of her own! While out with friends, the topic of love languages came up. At my age, basically all my friends are couples, and hanging out together looks like three or four sets of couples crowded around a table at […]
Recent media coverage of a New Zealand Mpox outbreak reminds Michael Stevens of the stigma faced by HIV+ communities. This year’s Winter Pride saw an outbreak of Mpox (formerly known as Monkey Pox). There was a definite whiff of hysteria in how it was reported. And a number of gay men, especially older ones, feared […]