Category: People

Jan 12
Lady Gaga and Sam Smith Win Golden Globe Awards

Lady Gaga and Sam Smith were two notable GLBT winners at this year’s Golden Globes. Gaga won the  Golden Globe for best performance by an actress in a TV movie or miniseries award for her onscreen turn in the fifth installment of America Horror Story: Hotel. The bisexual star broke down in tears as she […]

Dec 29
Psychiatrist Who Had Homosexuality Delisted As A Disorder Dies

A leading psychiatrist who played a pivotal role in delisting homosexuality as a mental disorder has died.  Dr. Robert Spitzer,  played a leading role in establishing agreed-upon standards to describe mental disorders and eliminating homosexuality’s designation as a pathology — died Friday in Seattle. He was 83. Spitzer died of heart problems, said his wife, […]

Dec 17
Anika Moa Engaged to TV3 Journalist

Anika Moa has revleaed she is engaged with TV3 journalist Natasha Utting. The singer, 35, and the TV3 journalist, 40, confirm their engagement to Woman’s Day, telling the magazine Moa proposed “on the couch in my favourite, black, lucky undies with the holes in them”. “Natasha was sitting there in her dressing gown with (our […]

Dec 13
Caitlyn Jenner Offends Trans Community in New Interview

The Transgender star told Time Magazine “if you look like a man in a dress, It makes people uncomfortable”. Caitlyn Jenner made TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” shortlist this year, eventually placing seventh in the top ten list. TIME has now published its interview with Caitlyn in full. The I Am Cait star shared a […]

Dec 07
Mike Puru Leaves The Edge

The openly gay radio host has announced he is ending his 20-year career at The Edge with “a heavy heart”. Puru said he started at the station in 1995 when it was based in Hamilton, but his favourite moment was the reaction he got in 2010 when he revealed he was gay. “I will never forget […]

Dec 06
Elizabeth Taylor Reportedly “Ran Dallas Buyers Club Style HIV Drugs Network”

A friend of the late actress claims she set up scheme to procure and distribute experimental HIV medication in the early 1990s. In a US TV interview, Kathy Ireland has described how Taylor ran a Los Angeles equivalent of the famous Dallas Buyers Club, procuring experimental and still illegal Aids treatment drugs to distribute from her […]

Dec 04
Former Auckland Pride Parade Registrations Coordinator Speaks Out

Speaking exclusively to express, the former Auckland Pride Parade Registrations Coordinator  gives his own account of the events that led to his resignation in the lead up to 2016’s parade as well as his personal reasons for opposing police participation. Baz Bloomfield was a volunteer for the Auckland Pride Festival since its conception in 2013 and spent the […]

Dec 01
Celebrities Auction Themselves Off For World AIDS Day

A new fundraising initiative has been launched for World AIDS day 2015, featuring some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars. U2 frontman Bono has launched an all-star campaign featuring “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” that can be won after donating at least $10 to his organisation (RED), which raises funds to fight AIDS. The campaign kicks off Tuesday to coincide […]