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A bold celebration of burlesque, circus, music and comedy, the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival returns to The Civic from 24 June to 5 July 2026, transforming one of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most iconic venues into a glittering playground of late-night spectacle and genre-defying performance. This year’s festival invites audiences to step into a world within a […]
Premiering on Sky’s Rialto Channel on Sunday 19 April, the BAFTA award-winning Mr Loverman centres a mature Black gay love story filled with humour, pain, longing and emotional depth Queer television still has a habit of narrowing its gaze. So often, the stories that make it to screen are about youth, beauty, discovery and desire in forms that are palatable to the mainstream: young, white, urban, […]
From sporting spectacles and exclusive members clubs, to the nostalgia of celebrating Disneyland’s 70th year, Oliver Hall checks out what Anaheim offers for adults. Arriving in Anaheim, we message our Karmel Shuttle driver at LAX to let her know we’ve landed, and she shoots back a text that instantly lowers the blood pressure: “Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.” It […]
Oliver Hall discovers vibrant queer nightlife and rich LGBTQ+ history in Los Angeles’ most walkable and proudly defiant neighbourhood. Los Angeles is vast — a sprawl of freeways, palm trees and possibility — but West Hollywood feels like its secret village. In just a few walkable blocks, you can move from world-class dining to queer nightlife, from rock ’n’ roll history to progressive art spaces, from […]
Comedian Stephen K Amos reflects on social media, race, representation, Prince Harry and Andrew, and the importance of context, in a world trying to balance progress with division. Ahead of his return to New Zealand with Now We’re Talking, Stephen K Amos sounds energised by the idea of reconnecting with audiences — but also deeply preoccupied by the state of […]
A recent RNZ Pacific article reported that the number of Fijians living with HIV has risen to at least 9,000—almost one percent of the population. To put this in perspective: New Zealand, with a population five times larger than Fiji’s, has around 3,500 people estimated to be HIV-positive—less than 0.1 percent of our population. Fiji’s […]
I’m finding GP waitlists frustrating — it’s usually around three weeks to get an appointment. If I switched to Tend, could I expect shorter wait times? What’s the process for moving over, and if I find a GP I like there, can they become my regular, ongoing doctor? Yes, as an enrolled patient at Tend, most people experience shorter wait times […]
Jessie Lwethwaite asks what “heteroflexible” really means, and examines how it sits within queer dating culture. As a butch woman, I am no stranger to being “straight bait”. I couldn’t even tell you how many times I have been at a party, at a bar, or even at a cheeky after-work function where, around drink four, her straightness gets a few […]