Category: People
The hit Netflix series Tiger King which is currently the number one trending show on Netflix in Aotearoa, has misgendered one of the trans stars throughout the entire show. The revelation of the misgendering comes as fans hone in on the series in never before seen detail, focussing on Joe Exotic’s wild lifestyle, the Zoo, […]
In the first of a series of interviews with high-profile community members; House of Drag co-host and co-Owner of Caluzzi Cabaret and Pheonix Entertainment, Anita Wigl’it gives us her tips for surviving Level 4 Lockdown. Tell us about your Level 4 Lockdown – Where are you, Who’s in your bubble, and what are you doing […]
Fashion model, LGBT+ activist and self-described gender-capitalist Rain Dove visited Auckland over Pride, attended events and met with community groups to understand what it means to be queer in Aotearoa. Rain talks to Oliver Hall about bridging the generational and ideological divides in our rainbow community. I met Rain Dove for coffee a few days […]
Openly pansexual Miley Cyrus has expressed to her legion of fans that she was turned away from her church as a teen because of their anti-LGBTQ beliefs and that the church also sent some of her gay friends away to conversion therapy. The 27-year-old singer, who came out as pansexual in 2015, made the disclosure […]
New research has indicated that same-sex couples are generally happier than heterosexual couples. According to research by Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History and director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families, data shows that same-sex couples are generally happier than their straight counterparts, due to the lack of stereotyping in the household division of labour. […]
10-time Irish national triple jump champion Denis Finnegan has come out as gay. In a podcast interview dropped by Outsports on Monday, Denis Finnegan, the 10-time national track-and-field title winner in Ireland, who currently lives in Melbourne, made his revelation on the Five Rings To Rule Them All podcast, telling interviewer Cyd Zeigler that he has […]
Swing Wrestling Champion, Curdin Orlik has made history for the Swiss LGBTI+ community in becoming his nations first openly gay professional athlete. According to OutSports, Orlik first revealed his sexuality to the Swiss publication The Magazine, where he told interviewers that “I’d rather be free than fearful,” going on to add, “I am like that. […]
Joel Bray is a proud openly-gay Aboriginal (Wiradjuri) man and one of the most talked-about contemporary dancers to come out of Australia in recent years. He talks to Oliver Hall about bringing his latest show Biladurang to the Auckland Arts Festival (AAF). “It means not quite fitting in anywhere, which is freeing because you can […]