Day: March 29, 2017

Mar 29
Netflix Features Non-Binary Characters In New Show

Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com.au ICON Julie Andrews is hosting a new show on Netflix that teaches kids about performing arts. Among its puppet characters, the show features one who is gender-neutral and non-binary.  Julie’s Greenroom features Andrews, a cast of puppets and celebrity guests from Hollywood and Broadway. The gender-neutral puppet, Riley, is one of […]

Mar 29
ISIS Responsible For Stoning Gay Youth To Death

ISIS have been found responsible for the death of a young man, having thrown him off a rooftop and hitting him with rocks – all because they found out he was gay. The mob released pictures of the young mans very-public execution which took place in Mosul, carried out in the name of Allah and […]

Mar 29
“Whatever, Just Please Wash Your Hands.”

The Regent Theatre in Dunedin has recently installed signs on two of its unisex-accessible toilets, but they aren’t quite what you would have imagined… The new sign shows four figures – a female, male, gender non-specific, and someone with a disability – across the top, and then a new addition of a green alien lying below […]

Mar 29
Filitonga Found Guilty For Infecting Partner With HIV

Following on from our previous article, 37 year-old Mikio Filitonga has been found guilty of infecting his boyfriend with HIV. He was on trial at Auckland District Court earlier in the month on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard and committing a criminal nuisance by doing an unlawful act. The Crown stated […]

Mar 29
Grindr Used To Meet Minors

A Hastings man who was accused a while ago for using Grindr to send messages to another person, convincing them to meet with underage boys and use them for sex, can finally be named. 24 year-old Michael John Kight, appeared in the Wellington District Court for a number of charges against him, including convincing a […]