This year I decided I would change up my blogging and start a monthly vlog – interviewing people over video. My first vlog was going to be focussing on the Auckland Pride Festival, which is just wrapping up, after a month of performances, gallery shows, markets and, of course, the Pride Parade. The festival had…
I’ve been drawing and writing for as long as I can remember, long before I was ever a man… since I was a little girl, in fact. Drawing has always been an outlet for me, and an important tool for self care. When I was in school I drew and wrote a lot, because I…
Last week this article about a self-identified gay man in a relationship with a trans woman, popped up all over my social media spaces. It got me thinking about my sexual orientation, in relation to myself, and to my partner.
During the lead up to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, there was a lot of community, media and social media chatter about how overtly anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans*) the Russian government is. It all began in 2013, when “President Vladimir Putin signed a law at the end of June prohibiting…
This week, guest blogger Thane Pullan muses on masculinity and femininity in the queer community. As a neither particularly masculine nor feminine gay man (I prefer to identify as “nerdy”) I have observed that some gay men can be quite hostile towards other gay men, whom they perceive as being more “feminine”. I wonder why this…
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