Category: People
The transgender musician and record producer had produced music for Charlie XCX and Madonna amongst others. Transgender singer, songwriter and record producer Sophie Xeon has died aged 34. The pop producer died after falling from the balcony of an apartment in Athens, Greece. Greek Police said the death as not being treated as suspicious. Xeon’s […]
For 25 years Golden Bay’s Autumn Farm has operated as the South Island’s only gay men’s rural lifestyle retreat. Now owner Peter Finlayson is looking for new blood to take over and continue the traditions he began. “On a human attitudinal level, there really hasn’t been a change,” Finlayson tells says when asked whether the […]
Star of Gays In Space and Let’s Get Loco! actor and playwright Zak Enayat. Born in Wellington and raised in Melbourne and Auckland, Zak Enayat is one of New Zealand’s few Afghan actors. Zak has been working on the stage and screen for six years. Recently appeared in the horror-comedy film ‘DEAD,’ as well as […]
Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, New Zealand’s Governor-General (representative of Queen Elizabeth II) talks to Oliver Hall about standing up for human rights, the effects of the AIDS and Coronavirus pandemics and the rise of the Rainbow community. It’s a windy and rainy day in Wellington as we buzz the intercom on […]
A local queer couple speak to express about the joy of becoming pregnant and the challenge of a cancer diagnosis. Aged just 33, Ellie discovered a lump which would lead to a Grade 3 breast cancer. The following day, her partner, Jess found out they were pregnant with the couple’s first child. The couple were […]
Former Australia’s Got Talent Winner and The Voice contestant Jack Vidgen has opened up about his fear of coming out on the latest edition of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Vidgen has also suggested he knows of 10 or 12 Australian Footballers that are gay. In a deep and meaningful conversation with […]
A gay man from the US state of Kentucky has recounted his horrifying experience to “cure” his homosexuality in so-called ‘conversion therapy’ sessions. In an op-ed written for The River City News, Curtis Galloway described his traumatising conversion therapy experience saying the supposed treatment left him with “permanent mental and emotional scars”. The 26-year-old explains […]
Awwa founder and period-proof underwear creator, Michelle Wilson believes the sacred life moment of a first ikura should be celebrated. Period. Belinda Nash learns more. For indigenous cultures throughout herstory, a first period signified a moment of tribal pride, and newly menstruating cis females were honoured with ceremony and gifts. As populations became colonised, however, […]