Category: People
In one of his last acts, President Obama will be commuting the rest of Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence. Instead of being released in 2045, Manning will leave the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on 17 May. Manning had already made two suicide attempts in regards to the prison’s handling of her gender dysphoria – […]
Article:Katherine Wolfgramme for Star Observer With the world’s media courting trans issues – whether it online, current affairs programmes, in the papers, or reality television – trans visibility is at an historic high. But as a trans gender woman I can’t help but wonder, in amazement, how has this come to be? In what was […]
Article and photo: Star Observer “I forgot to ask whether you’ve been with a trans guy before?” He hadn’t. “Well, you’ve been with a guy before? And you’ve been with a woman before? All right then,” I told him, “you’ll be fine.” Steve* from Grindr is an extremely decent lay and hasn’t once been weird […]
Talented Thomas Sainsbury, 34, has two productions running in Auckland this month: Dynamotion Presents Mia Blonde in Ice Dagger, and The Opening Night Before Christmas. They draw on two key inspirations: James Bond movies, and amateur theatre in small-town New Zealand. Tell us about Mia Blonde, which you co-wrote with Laura Liew and is performed […]
I’m sitting at one of many gleamingly white tables across from Brad Roebuck and Tobias Ward at their restaurant, AdamArnold in Ponsonby, and all I keep thinking is how sickeningly cute they are. Tobias keeps staring at Brad with that sort of love that makes you want to punch them for being so happy, and […]
It is becoming more commonplace for people to add children with the ever-growing number of same-sex and trans- couples. The advent of adding children to a non-heteronormative family has come very far: with legal same-sex marriages, gay couples can now adopt as a couple instead of an individual; this also flows onto same-sex couples being […]
Brent Thomson has been part of the LGBT+ community for yonks, still able to recollect when the gay club was still on Anzac Ave, and the campaign for the Homosexual Law Reform when he was the leader of UniQ’s predecessor. It’s because of this personal involvement with New Zealand’s history of queer rights that has […]
Picture: Forbes Regardless of the outcome of the USA presidential election, the fact that a political outsider, Donald Trump, was able to secure the nomination of one of the main parties signals a seismic shift in politics that will have ongoing repercussions. And there’s a gay sidebar to the Trump story that’s also a signal […]