Four new kiwi gay blogs have just been launched on gaynz.com David Herkt – Works for Me David is well remember from the nz.soc.queer newsgroup during the 90s writing his Regular Saturday Morning Post. He has undertaken a number of projects – best covered by Poneke’s review of David’s new blog. His first post is […]
The Sydney Morning Herald picked up a disturbing undertone in the current debate about recent homophobic bashings: The bashing of Craig Gee, of Redfern, two months ago sparked outrage in the gay community, and a boil-over of tensions between the state’s peak gay organisations, local police and Aboriginal groups after police reports described Mr Gee’s […]
There have been increasing reports of homophobic bashings and incidents in what was Sydney’s golden mile gay district – Oxford St. This has been extensively discussed in the gay media but is also been picked up by the mainstream media making page one of the Sydney Morning Herald with the headline: Unhappy days for strip […]
The press release announcing the 8th Big Gay Out makes one realise how far ahead New Zealand is in acceptance of gay rights compared to Australia. It is hard to believe that it is almost expected that the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, will attend the Big Gay OUT as she has previously. It wouldn’t be […]
Australia is looking at introducing mandatory filtering of the internet in a similar method to China and Singapore. For those wanting an unfiltered internet they will have to request their ISP to provide them an unfiltered stream. Now this may seem ok but what isn’t clear is what will actually be filtered – i.e. who […]
I am never sure whether to laugh or cry at what passes as US conservative news. The top 10 under reported articles in 2007 according to WorldNetDaily.com is a very interesting list. The list is below: Developments moving U.S. and continent closer to a North American Union Bush’s refusal to pardon imprisoned Border Patrol Ignacio […]
Looking for short book to read then check out Eve and Adam in Suburbia A novel about love, friendship and infidelity. Covering a period of 2.5 years, it follows the comical and dramatic events that lead neighbors Eve and Julien to an important decision: should they leave their cheating partners, Adam and Romeo, or not? […]
BBC Radio 1 found it at the centre of a controversy over the censoring of the words “faggot” and “slut” from the words of “Fairytale of New York” and then reinstating them. As reported in The Independent. “Embarrassed BBC bosses have climbed down over attempts to ban words it deemed offensive in the Christmas hit […]
Not only was Deena Pawson not smart to post critical comments about her workplace on her Bebo profile as follows: “well work sucks, guyfawkes are coming up, and we have to close @ midnight, which is totally gay.. like the frickn management there! and OMG the GOSSIPS! zOmG, i dnt nO eNgLISh1!!!oneoneexclamationmark!!!! LOL LOL” An […]
Christopher Pearson latest opinion piece on moves for Civil Unions in the ACT would be laughable if he didn’t believe what he wrote. With the headline “Arrest this abomination” he makes some sweeping statements as follows. The first misconception to nail is that the opposition to gay marriage is a homophobic response. Insisting that, in […]
