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This year Dzi Croquettes, a documentary on the Brazilian infamous dance troupe from the 1960′s will be shown at Reel Brazil. Loved and admired by luminaries such as Mick Jagger, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Maurice Béjart, Josephine Baker and Liza Minnelli, Dzi Croquettes was an infamous Brazilian dance-theatre troupe that revolutionized the nation’s gay rights [...]
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Number 8 Films marks the International Day Of Older Persons with the NZ premiere of ‘Gen Silent’, preceded by an encore screening of our film ‘The Colonel’s Outing’. This award-winning doco follows the stories and struggles of elders in Boston’s LGBT community: Married activists Sheri and Lois are determined to stay independent as long as [...]
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New Zealanders’ attitudes towards difference and conformity are up for debate at Auckland Museum’s last LATE in the 2011 series. Who is being marginalised in today’s society and how much more open are New Zealanders now than they were half a decade ago? Curated by Public Address founder and Media7 host Russell Brown, October’s LATE [...]
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This week reaches the pinnacle of months worth of planning – the opening of Out Takes 2011: A Reel Queer Film Festival. What a year it’s been! With natural disasters and nuclear meltdown providing the icing on top of the recession cake, we could sure all do with a break from it all. And what [...]
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Big Gay Out has become a great day out, not just for the LGBT community but for Aucklanders from different communities. The stalls, great food, music and general entertainment provided at the fair makes it a truly fabulous day out for everyone who attends. It is a tribute to the New Zealand Aids Foundation and [...]
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Mates & Lovers by By Ronald Trifero Nelson The untold lives of our brothers, sons and fathers. Based on Chris Brickell’s Montana award-winning book ‘Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand’, Fabulous Arts Aotearoa New Zealand stages 300 years of the private (and not-so-private) lives of men who love men. Two actors meander [...]
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The creators of the all new Gay cabaret show Songs for Guy are calling on men to submit personal short stories, thoughts, beliefs and anecdotes that reflect their experience of living and growing up as a gay NZ male. In the same vein as the classic Broadway musical A Chorus Line combined personal stories with [...]
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Moral and sex panics have been employed on a national scale to undermine sexual, gender and reproductive rights according to an American authority on sexuality. Professor Gilbert Herdt from San Francisco State University will give a public lecture at The University of Auckland this month on the lessons learnt around moral and sexual panic from [...]
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