FebFasting
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GayNZ.com's favourite cartoonist Sam Orchard has created a cartoon strip explaining why he's taking part in FebFast, which is raisng money for four groups, including Rainbow Youth.
Andy's FebFast Diary: Day 1
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Andrew is taking the challenge to ditch red wine for a month in order to raise money for Rainbow Youth. How is the first day going? Find out in his video diary here!
WINZ and HIV: lessons from the UK
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As the NZ government moves to move sickness beneficiaries into the workplace the UK's recent experience may make us uneasy.
Breaking free of a double life
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One of the NZAF's best kept secrets is its free counselling service for gay and bi men, as blogger Bipolar Bear explains.
Health: Risk, Choice and Young Lesbians
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AUT doctoral student Katie Palmer is working on her thesis on lesbian health issues at their School of Health Practice. Read a summary of some of her key findings so far.
Time to look after ourselves
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Maori, Pacific peoples, and women all had to fight for recognition within the system and form their own health organisations to ensure their needs are met. So where’s ours?
For all the good girls and bois
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Posted in:
Living Well
4th February 2011
"If you are inhabitant of a woman's body but seeking a more masculine or bulky physical appearance there are some tricks of the trade that you can enlist to give you an added advantage in the gaining muscle department," writes fitness guru Julz Darroch.
How I Lost my Virginity (For the Second Time)
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"Sometimes I hear newly diagnosed HIV+ guys say they’ll never have sex again. They feel dirty. They fear passing the virus on to another, which is all pretty understandable."
A letter from the Mental Health Foundation
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Mental Health Foundation Chief Executive Judi Clements has written a letter in response to concerns about gay men's mental health raised in Michael Stevens' hard-hitting blog Can We Talk?
Walkies
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"Are you one of those people who think that if we were supposed to run they’d serve cocktails in sipper bottles? (mmm, not a bad idea actually) but really would like to start increasing your fitness or decreasing your fatness?"
Abs: the hard truth
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Forget the infomercials, our favourite fitness guru Julz Darroch is back with the real secrets to getting a sexy set of abs - and yes, it involves discipline and hard work.
Gay men are at risk of anal cancer, studies say
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Posted in:
Living Well
14th March 2010
HPV is a highly infectious sexually communicable disease, for which a vaccine is now available to NZ women... but not yet for Kiwi gay men, who are also particularly at risk.
Gay men and the big 'C'
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Posted in:
Living Well
4th March 2010
Sometimes, it seems as if gay men have tunnel vision beyond HIV/AIDS. Cancer is also a gay male problem. What are we going to do about it?
How to look good exercising
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"It's a bit about the outfit, a bit of how you look in the outfit and a bit more about how you feel in the outfit."
How's our drinking?
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Posted in:
Living Well
23rd February 2010
Is there a specific culture of heavy drinking amongst some lesbians and bisexual women? Yes and no...
