Category: People
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 […]
Playwright Jason Te Mete shares the experience of coming out to his father. His play Over My Dead Body: Little Black Bitch, opens at TAPAC tonight. As cliché as it may sound, I was profoundly influenced by The Wizard of Oz as a child. Firstly it was the complete unfamiliarity of Kansas, a creepy travelling […]
Swift’s new music video for ‘The Man’, features the singer as a drag king highlighting the worst of patriarchy. Taylor Swift has made her debut as a drag king in the latest music video from the pop superstar. Swift wears full drag as she plays a character which exhibits all the worst traits of ‘toxic […]
Labour MP Louisa Wall (Ngati Tuwharetoa me Waikato) talks to express about being a proud Takatapui, campaigning for law reform in the Cook Islands and what remains to be achieved for our community. What does Pride mean to you? Pride to me is a disposition. It is the projection in every aspect of my life, […]
Star of Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Kim Chi, slayed at ‘Werq The World’ in Auckland last night. She discusses her Anime obsession, dating apps and getting paid; with House of Drag Season 2’s Elektra Shock. Which of the RPRD queens is your favourite to tour with? Naomi Smalls, Plastique Tiara, Bob the drag […]
In 1981, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (Ngāti Whakaue) MNZM became the first Maori female to gain a doctorate in Aotearoa. She went on to become an award-winning author, expert on indigenous heritage and the first Maori female Emeritus Professor in NZ. She discusses the construct of inclusivity and our colourful female future. In 2020 do you […]