Category: Opinion
Did you just comment on a thirst trap post that wasn’t even a real person? Artificial Intelligence is changing the world, but Steven Oates is concerned about what AI-generated hotties are doing to our self-esteem. As far back as the early 1950’s, with the widespread publication of ‘Physique’ or ‘Beefcake’ magazines, many gay men have […]
Anti-trans activist Kellie-Jean Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker has stopped haranguing trans people and now appears to have a new target – gay men involved in surrogate parenthood. Surrogacy has always been a subject of contention. Opinions range from acceptance that it involves a contractual relationship between a surrogate birth mother and sperm donor to have […]
Craig Young takes a closer look at Winston Peters new-found fascination with women’s sports and transgender communities. When it comes to substantive issues relating to trans communities, Winston Peters seems to have limited that to the erasure of the Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum being taught in schools. Beyond that, Peters has chosen more symbolic issues, […]
Craig Young asks if bad vice-presidential choices adversely affect US presidential campaigns. And is J.D. Vance a bad choice? Given that there were a large number of badly chosen nineteenth-century picks for the vice-presidential portfolio, I’ll restrict my summary to those within the last fifty years! Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon’s vice presidential choice, was brought […]
On July 21, President Biden stepped down as the Democrat Party’s candidate for the next term’s American President, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris to fill his shoes. Craig Young asks what President Harris would mean for rainbow communities and the US in general. The Biden administration has been a praiseworthy defender of LGBTQ+ rights […]
As social media fills with memes of Hilary Clinton and Melania Trump holding riffles and ‘How Do You Miss’ trends on Twitter (X), Craig Young reminds us how dangerous political violence is for democracy and progress. On July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the subject of an attempted assassination. […]
Craig Young says the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act or ‘Waka Jumping’ helps protect rainbow communities from fringe extremists and The Greens need to use it to remove Darlene Tana from parliament. It looks like the Green Party is about to expel former List MP Darleen Tana from Parliament over issues about migrant labour maltreatment at […]
As President Biden desperately fights to convince America he’s not too old for the job, Craig Young looks at the older politicians in our parliament and asks do we need an age limit? Although current debates about elderly politicians are restricted to Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s US presidential candidacies, what about our own parliament? […]