Day: February 4, 2016

Feb 04
KPMG Achieves Rainbow Tick

KPMG is New Zealand’s first ‘Big Four’ accounting firm to achieve Rainbow Tick certification. The Rainbow Tick programme is a continuous quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation ensure it is a safe and welcoming workplace for employees. While many diversity and inclusion programmes address the areas of gender balance, ethnicity and ability, the Rainbow Tick […]

Feb 04
Play School looks ‘Through the Windows’ at Diversity

Australia’s ABC children’s television program have put out a casting call for a child with two fathers. The program is also scouting ‘an adopted family, an extended family, a blended family, an Indigenous nuclear family’ as part of their ‘through the windows’ segments. The show hopes to bring it’s shared family stories into alignment with the […]

Feb 04
Circus Fantastica in Six Inch Heels

Glamorous Australian drag artist Dallas Dellaforce loosens the corset strings on 2016 Auckland Pride Festival sensation, Briefs. If you like your circus with a whole lot of glam, then Briefs is the show for you! An awe-inspiring marriage of drag artistry, burlesque and cirque vivacity; this world renowned troupe has finally arrived on New Zealand shores […]

Feb 04
Summerama at Family Bar

Photo credit | Tux Hika

Feb 04
India to Review Outdated Law on Homosexuality

Since 1861, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code has declared homosexuality an “unnatural offence” and “an order against nature”. Those who are caught participating in gay sex are liable to suffer a 10-year prison sentence, and as a result of this governmental stature on homosexuality, it has remained one of the most taboo subjects in […]