Day: February 16, 2017

Feb 16
ANZ GAYTMs #HoldTight for Auckland Pride

This morning at the ANZ Ponsonby branch, OUTLineNZ General Manager Trevor Easton was joined by ANZ staff Teresa Cropp and Toni Fraser, Branch Manager Richard Neame and comedian Urzila Carlson to unveil the bank’s new award-winning GAYTMs. The world-famous GAYTMs celebrate diversity and show the bank’s support for the Auckland Pride Festival and the LGBT+ community and are located at ANZ […]

Feb 16
Rainbows Close Down Facebook Page

After news of how Michelle Meyers, One Nation’s candidate for Bateman electorate in Western Australia, compared the LGBT+ campaigning for equal rights to propaganda techniques used by the Soviets and Nazis, her page has been bombarded by rainbows. People had been commenting with all sorts of rainbow emojis, stickers and pictures, even posts that were not […]

Feb 16
Celebrities Pen Open Letter to Texas

142 artists, led by Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff, have signed an open letter to Texan legislators, in which they say the creative community is watching whether anti-LGBT+ bills will pass into law. The two bills that have been specified are Texas Senate Bill 6 and House Bill 1362. They would require teachers to ‘out’ LGBT+ […]

Feb 16
Kiwi LGBT+ Children’s Book Makes Waves

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Chaz Harris and Adam Reynolds have release their children’s book, Promised Land. In an interview with express last year, the authors say that they regard themselves as visual storytellers instead of novelists. The story itself is not LGBT+-targeted; rather, it tells the tale of how Jack, a farm boy, and Leo, a prince, […]