BroOnline.co.nz, a new information and social networking website for gay and bisexual men of Maori descent, went live online yesterday evening and was officially launched with an event at Auckland's Family bar last night. Bros launch website at Family bar An initiative of Hau Ora Takataapui, a Maori health promotion team within the NZ AIDS Foundation, the website provides sexual health advice, comic strips, access to free condoms, an online magazine, and a Meet the Bros section for user's personal profiles. Hook-up: A scene from BroOnline's comic The site launched last night with a party at Family bar, featuring break dancing shows, a free BBQ, brief speeches from the website's designers, live songs, giveaways and a dancing performance from three of the guys featured on the site. Large posters featuring 'Bros' imagery decorated the club, and BroOnline-themed packets of condoms and lube were available free to take away. BroOnline's various sections contain frank and graphic information about making sex between men safer to help prevent HIV infection. As such, an R18 warning appears in its front page. Although it is a Maori-based site, all gay or bisexual men will be welcome to look at BroOnline and join up if they want to, say the site's designers.