UP magazine was a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 youth-orientated magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community of New Zealand.

The first issue of UP appeared in 2002 as an A3 tabloid newspaper specifically for the Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

, New Zealand gay community. It expanded to nationwide coverage in mid-2003 and in January 2005 changed format into an A4 magazine style. In February 2006 Editors Andy Boreham and Aaron Hailwood announced they had sold the publication although no further issues have appeared, prompting speculation that they had been bought-out by one of the three other titles in the over-crowded New Zealand gay media market.

UP featured gay news and current events, interviews, sections on music, film and literature. It also had a number of regular columnists including a Fag Hag

Fag hag

Fag hag is a gay slang phrase referring to a woman who either associates mostly or exclusively with gay and bisexual men, or has gay and bisexual men as close friends. The phrase originated in gay male culture in the United States and was historically an insult. Some women who associate with gay...

, local transgender advocate Claudia McKay, a political column by openly gay MP Tim Barnett and a humorous lesbian sex column by Jaime Arnold, sister of Boyband

Boyband (New Zealand band)

Boyband are a New Zealand pop group created in September 2006 from the winners of The Edge radio station's promotion to manufacture New Zealand's first boy band. The Edge Radio station hosted auditions across the New Zealand to find the best males for the band...

 singer Rob Arnold

Robert Arnold

Robert Allan Arnold , commonly known as Rob Arnold, is a postie from Wellington, New Zealand, who achieved fame in a New Zealand boy band, Boyband, as the gay boy...

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