Category: Premium

OutRunnerz founder Ken Ogg and lead runner Josh Martin share the keys to the growing success of Auckland’s LGBTQ+ running club, where fitness meets friendship  When Ken Ogg first joined LGBTQ+ sports clubs, he was searching for something he felt had been missing in his youth: a sense of belonging. After competing in swimming at the […]

Jessie Lewthwaite wants a drink, as she reflects on NZ’s history of lesbian watering holes and why we still need them  It’s 2010, and a 21-year-old Jessie had just graduated from university as a high school teacher. Having grown up in central Queensland and been to uni in north Queensland, my first priority was to get the fuck out of Queensland. With […]

Historian Gareth Watkins reflects on important July dates for the progress of New Zealand’s rainbow communities.  Late July 1970  At the National Party’s annual conference in Rotorua, delegates endorsed a proposal urging the Government to liberalise the law relating to homosexuality. Moving the remit, Mr Sutton of Miramar said the question of homosexuality was charged […]

With the commemoration of Matariki and the anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform both landing in July, the Burnett Foundation is drumming up momentum for an exciting year of change ahead, writes Content Manager Ethan Christensen  We’re stoked to see recorded HIV diagnoses trending downwards for another year. From our good friends at the University of […]

Auckland Museum will open its archives this July for a powerful evening of storytelling, taonga and reflection, marking 40 years since the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act. LATE at the Museum | 1986: A Look Back at Homosexual Law Reform will take place on Wednesday 29 July in Auckland Museum’s Te Ao Mārama […]

To mark today’s 40th anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform, YOUR EX contacted the leaders of Aotearoa’s significant political parties* to ask what this landmark moment means for New Zealand today Prime Minister and National Party Leader Chris Luxon: “I’d like to acknowledge and celebrate the courage and determination of those who fought so hard for […]

Washington DC has always known how to turn Independence Day into a spectacle. But this year, the United States marked 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence; YOUR EX’s Matt Fistonich discovered that the capital felt even more charged than usual. By late afternoon, the city was shimmering in crazy 40+ summer […]

B416 argues social media is harming young people, but youth organisations warn a ban could cut off vital connections for isolated rangatahi  As Australia and the UK are restricting social media access for under-16s, a similar conversation is gathering momentum in Aotearoa. At the centre of that push is B416, a campaign group calling for […]