In Brisbane, an Anglican boy’s private school is refusing to let any of its gay students take their boyfriends to the forthcoming school ball.
The Anglican Church of Australia is legendary for its backwardness, compared to our own, far more convivial, branch of the Anglican Communion. Our own Anglicans first ordained women back in 1976, while […]

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In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi has narrowly won his third term as Italian Prime Minister, so what does this mean for LGBT Italians?
Germany, Austria, Greece  and Italy are now the only Western European states without some form of registered partnership or civil union available for their lesbian and gay citizens. In Germany’s case, I suspect they’ll […]

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During February-March 2008, “Tough Times, Nice Times” was playing at London’s Barbican. It was a thought-provoking theatre piece about two naked gay Germans, Martin and Stefan, in a tub, which stood in for a Thai gay sauna. Martin was a former rent boy turned lawyer turned drug dealier, and Stefan was a drug dealer, and […]

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Ho hum. The New Zealand Christian Right is starting to get shrill about the demon smut again. Case in point- New Plymouth Baptist minister Grant Harris invites xxxchurch.com’s Craig Gross to spread the message.
And what message might this be? Apparently, Gross tries to deliver the fundamentalist message at erotic media conventions, because “Jesus loves erotic […]

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Comment: Is There Intelligent Life on Mars? : Filed- Tan Bao Young.
Two centuries ago, a revered clone ancestor of mine was involved with the early samesexer equality politics of the late twentieth and early twenty […]

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One crisp Autumn evening, I walked over to Palmerston North’s City Library to sit and listen to Peter Wells deliver his illustrated speech on the current fate of Frank Sargeson’s small cottage in Esmond Road, Takapuna. It was an enthralling experience.
I had a brief chat with Peter beforehand, and asked him about the gaps in […]

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It seems to be the season for gay zombie movies, given that I’ve reviewed Vidkid Timo’s At Twilight Come the Flesh Eaters from the late nineties, Bruce LaBruce’s current Otto, Or Up With Dead People - and now, Michael Simons’ Gay Zombie, a short film (20 min) riff on the subjects of HIV/AIDS and gay […]

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Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-  ) is a famed Viennese artist, whose latest exhibition, “Religion, Flesh and Power” is currently featured at Vienna’s Catholic St Stephens Cathedral, and it’s apparently about the “carnality of religion.” How “carnal?” Er, well, it shows Christ being flagellated and pleasured at the same time, and the Last Supper shows the Twelve […]

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For some reason, there has never been a detailed account of the last remaining corner of the United Kingdom to accept homosexual law reform- which was Northern Ireland. 
About ten years after England and Wales had passed the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which ushered in a highly restrictive partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality (with a grossly […]

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Given the way that feminism, LGBT rights and heterosexual work and sex roles have changed over the last forty years, it is now not uncommon for gay and straight men to actually become mates.
In Arena last year, one of their columnists, Paul Flynn, wrote a mischievous piece about what to do if you’re a straight […]

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