Day: December 6, 2015

Five gay refugees have been rehoused in the Netherlands after being threatened by fellow refugees. The five men (three Syrian, one Iraqi, one Iranian) were physically attacked and spat on. The men were originally housed in the Parool, a refugee centre in Amsterdam, but were moved to housing owned by corporation the Rochdale, reports Dutch […]

Wellington born Robin Hammond was named on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list for his project, Where Love Is Illegal. The documentary campaign spanned several continents to highlight the plight of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Hammond, the only Kiwi on the list, told the New Zealand Herald that he was first surprised […]

Trent Zimmerman has won the North Sydney by-election, becoming Australia’s first ever out gay MP to be elected to the lower house. Zimmerman, from the ruling Liberal Party will replace former minister Joe Hockey in the safe Liberal seat, who won despite a 13% swing against the Liberals the since federal election in 2013. “I want […]

A friend of the late actress claims she set up scheme to procure and distribute experimental HIV medication in the early 1990s. In a US TV interview, Kathy Ireland has described how Taylor ran a Los Angeles equivalent of the famous Dallas Buyers Club, procuring experimental and still illegal Aids treatment drugs to distribute from her […]