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It’s been two years since an official Pride parade wound its way down Ponsonby Road ion Auckland New Zealand. Well in 2020 a smaller Parade has returned to the city.

The nickname Leather Lungs seems to match cabaret performer Jay Chasland’s strong and incredibly versatile voice. He was in New Zealand recently for the 2020 Auckland Pride Festival. In this interview with Andrew Whiteside about his love of music and some of personal demons.

On Valentines day at Eden Park in Auckland New Zealand, the Auckland Blues rugby team play the Crusaders. There will be rainbow pads around the goal posts, and the crowd will be issued with thousands of rainbow flags to show their support for the LGBTQI communities. So why are they doing this?

Provocation is a new play by writer Aroha Awarau and it debuts during Auckland Pride Month. It is about what was often called ‘gay panic defence’ - a legal strategy that allowed killers of gay men to downgrade their murder charges to manslaughter. It was a defence that was successfully used by the killers of TV personality David McNee in 2003 and Ronald Brown in 2009. In this video, the writer ...

It is February , which means it is Pride Month in Auckland - New Zealand Fourteen months ago, Pride basically fell apart and last year the annual parade in the city was cancelled. Well a group called Rainbow Pride Auckland vowed to step in and this year - they promised we’d have a Parade this year - but have they delivered on that promise? Andrew Whiteside asks the head of Rainbow Pride Aucklan...

A group of protesters bullied a group of drag queens who were reading to kids in a public library in Brisbane Australia. Was this ok or not?

Its been an interesting few months in Auckland as our Rainbow Communities have torn themselves apart over the decision by Auckland Pride to ban police uniforms from this years Pride Parade - as you know, that event got cancelled - and there’s been a lot of arguing ever since. Now - a rival organisation has been set up - its called Rainbow Pride Auckland - and they have boldly stated they are go...

Forty two percent of New Zealanders said they wouldn’t eat food prepared by someone with HIV despite there being no risk to their health. That shocking statistic comes from a poll conducted a year ago by Collmar Brunton. At this year’s big gay out in Auckland, New Zealand, Body Positive set up a cafe to prove that food made by positive people can be delicious and safe.

For months Auckand’s queer communities have been split over a ban on Police uniforms in the Auckland Pride Parade - that decision resulted in the cancellation of the parade in 2019 and the withdrawal of sponsors. Instead of a parade, on the 9th February 2019 the Auckland Pride organisation held an event called ‘Our March’. Our cameras were there.

My kitten was still feeding on her mother and one day she thought she might give me a go! andrewwhiteside.com

The new AIDS prevention medication PREP has had some bad press this week after a man taking the drug was diagnosed as HIV positive. At this stage health authorities are saying they need more information before they can make a definitive explanation. But PREP - also known as Truvada is at the heart of a new AIDS prevention strategy unveiled by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation this year. In this i...

If you haven't seen the flamboyant Ian Towning on TV you’ve missed out on a real treat. He is one of the UK’s most well known antique dealers and has appeared on Dickinson's Real deal and Posh Pawn. In this interview with Andrew Whiteside, Ian talks about his life and his loves.

He’s just 27 years old but already Rhys Nicholson has made a name for himself in the world of comedy and appeared in many festivals in the US, UK and Australia - this month he visits our shores for the annual New Zealand Comedy Festival. In this interview with Andrew Whiteside, he talks about mayonnaise and gay marriage.

The Auckland Pride Parade celebrated it’s 5th birthday in 2017. Thousands of people lined Ponsonby Road in the city to watch the diversity that is the Auckland queer communities parade with Pride. Fortunately this year the parade wasn't disrupted by protest. Watch GayTalk Tonight’s coverage of some of the highlights of this year’s parade.

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