The Killing of the World’s First Gay Imam
*Imam- leader of prayers in mosques. In 1996, Mushin Hendricks became the first imam in the world to come out as gay. Hendricks founded theAl-Ghurbaah Foundation in Cape Town and worked there as the executive director. This is a human rights organization that provides support to ‘Queer Muslims’.They help them to reconcile Islam with their […]
Thailand’s Same Sex Marriage Law Comes into Force
In the capital of Thailand, Bangkok, over 200 same-sex couples took part in a ‘mass wedding,’ following the passing of a law giving same-sex couples full legal, financial, and adoption rights, with another 1574 same-sex couples getting married on the 23rd of January, the day the law went into effect.With full endorsement from the King […]
Drag Queen ‘The Vivienne’ dead at 32
The Vivienne was the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019. Their presence allowed the world to witness British drag. James Lee Williams (known as The Vivienne) was a Welsh drag queen who competed in the first season of Drag Race UK, the seventh season of Drag Race All Stars and was the […]
Nexus News – Destiny or Chaos?
Destiny Church is an institution that has been scrutinized for years. They seem to bounce back and forth from being irrelevant to the front page of the news. Over the last few days, they’ve made their way to front center again with the recent protests of a children’s show that they led. You may or […]
Lectured with Gareth Schott
In our new series “Lectured” Nexus will interview a lecturer, the only rule is we don’t want to ask them a lot of questions about their subject matter. So we started with Professor Gareth Schott, easily the coolest looking lecturer on campus. We asked him about music because we were curious about whether he would […]
Who You Gonna Call?
Nexus news received reports that a number of the installed Security phones were out of commission or dialled to nowhere. Given these phones were set up so that tauira could instantly contact security and give them a waypoint to their location we decided to clarify what was happening with Director of Campus Operations and Risk […]
Sports Centre – Issue 05 Vol. 58
An Existential Crisis On Sports If you’ve ever had a conversation with Raff, you’ll know very quickly you start to question your morals. I was innocently sitting in the Nexus office when James bombarded me with a simple question “Is cheerleading a sport?” And before any cheerleaders out there get offended, I originally said “Obviously.” […]
Sports Centre – Issue 07 Vol. 58
Darts Prodigy Discovered At The Don Wake up, babe. Hamilton’s newest star athlete just dropped. Waikato University student Ruby Tocker has been advised to surrender her dream of becoming a historian in favour of another pursuit: professional dart-throwing. This suggestion came from a talent scout who saw Tocker triumph in a casual match last Thursday. […]
Sports Centre – Issue 06 Vol. 58
Chiefs vs Blues The Chiefs narrowly scraped to a win over the Blues by one point at Hamilton’s FMG stadium in a nail-biting match for everyone. It was an anxious watch for fans of both teams as the points climbed up the board, but in the end, the Chiefs managed to snatch the victory. This […]
Sports Centre – Issue 03 Vol. 58
Phoenix Who? Unless you couldn’t give less of a shit about sports in Aotearoa, you should know about the Auckland FC vs Wellington Phoenix game on the 22nd of February. If you are on the “football is the only sport” end of the “give a fuck” to “YEAH SPORTS!!!” spectrum you would know this game […]