Category: People
Well known New Zealand gender bending personality and new Auckland Pride Festival Board member Zakk d’Larté is jetting off to Los Angeles to attend RuPaul’s DragCon taking place on 7 and 8 of May! Many other notable drag and gender bending stars will be in attendance including RuPaul himself, alongside such stars as Amber Rose, Jeffree Star, Henry […]
Known affectionately as the Acid Tongue Prince, Australian born and openly gay comic Joel Creasey is everything an audience could wish for. Funny as hell and extraordinarily handsome, this queen of the comedy stage is “single and ready to mingle” and en route to New Zealand! “I’m hoping to find a Kiwi husband” he jests […]
GLBT celebrities have taken to social media to pay tribute to Prince after he was found dead in his home at only fifty nine years old. Elton John posted a picture of Prince on Instagram and said alongside that “This is truly devastating news. The greatest performer I have ever seen. A true genius. Musically […]
Notable queer comedienne Ellen Degeneres has slammed Mississippi’s Religious Freedom Bill, calling it “the definition of discrimination.” She says that “this is not politics, this is human rights”, citing that the Religious Freedom Bill stands against the Supreme Court ruling that allowed same sex couples to marry. Degeneres’ speech was littered with comedy but the power […]
Comedy maestra Urzila Carlson gets completely unacceptable with Amy Jane Bedwell! I first saw Urzila Carlson live at the Classic when she was a fledgling comic climbing the New Zealand comedy ladder. We smoked together on the bustling street outside the club and talked, albeit briefly, about the life that had lead her to the […]
Voting is now open for Mr Gay World 2016. Now is New Zealand’s chance to get behind 2016 Gay NZ Bernard Lee who took out the title in February’s Big Gay Out competition. An active volunteer at LYC, Bernard has always shown New Zealand that he is passionate about queer rights and deserve the top spot. […]
Facebook sensation and instigator of a meme circulating the internet recently, the Lad Bible, have publicly apologised to the subject of their meme, openly gay actor Wentworth Miller after he posted a heartfelt response on his Facebook page yesterday. Thousands of people came to Miller’s aid with messages of support. The LAD Bible, known for their oft […]
New York strip turned Kiwi beef cake Neil Thornton is bringing his unique brand of comedy to the 2016 International Comedy Festival. A happily married gay man and self confessed bear, Neil is all kinds of fantastic rolled into one hilarious bearded package. “I started stand up in New York in 2008 and worked really […]