Day: May 10, 2016

May 10
Read: U.S. Attorney General Condemns North Carolina Bathroom Bill

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has compared North Carolina’s HB2 law with the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the formerly segregated Southern states. Lynch is a Greensboro native and the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. She is a social advocate who has often played important roles in representing and fighting for minority groups. In […]

May 10
Auckland University Panel to Query Equal Justice in NZ Prisons

Barrister and transgender rights advocate Kelly Ellis will feature on a panel held tomorrow at Auckland University focusing on possible solutions for the current crisis taking place in New Zealand prisons. Following the show stopping Pride parade protest earlier this year by protest group No Pride in Prisons which meant to highlight the treatment of […]

May 10
Eurovision: The Case Study of Successful Gay Lobbying

  This 25 years old singing contest has seen many weird and wonderful acts; it inspired Lady Gaga and launched into the stardom ABBA and Celine Dione but put the nail in the coffin of Bonnie Tyler’s career and rejected a song written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber. Eurovision is known as the favourite show for gays […]

May 10
Smouldering Saturday at Family

Saturday 7 May Family Bar and Club, 270 K’ Road Photos: Marina Ralph It was another amazing night at New Zealand’s most popular queer venue, Family Bar and Club! The good weather brought out an array of stunning rainbow individuals who kept cool with drink specials only to heat up again on the dance floor. […]