Part of the Auckland Pride Festival, with events around Auckland until 23 February. Read Post
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Here's a game I play with friends: we talk about ministers of broadcasting and who has actually been any good. in the past 20-odd years. It gets hard quite quickly. ¶ The longest-serving Minister of Broadcasting in the present era has…
To my knowledge, I have only met one gay member of the New Zealand defence forces: a young soldier I spoke with a couple of years ago. He was handsome, poised and confident. Inevitably, I asked him whether his sexuality…
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"Can America Be Fixed?" asks the cover line of last month's Foreign Affairs magazine. Inside, Fareed Zakaria's essay of that title faults the US -- and other Western economies for failing to address and adapt to changign economic circumstances, positing…
No one expected outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon to make the speech he made to the UN General Assembly in September 2012. Calderon, the staunch drug warrior, called time on the Drug War. ¶ He begged member states – and in particular…