Day: December 18, 2018

Dec 18
No Pride Parade, Gala, or Party For Auckland in 2019

Auckland Pride has just announced there will be no parade next year. In place of a Pride parade, there will instead be a ‘march’ which express understands will not involve the previous corporates that have participated in previous years. There will also be no opening gala or closing party in 2019. The announced was made […]

Dec 18
Could Botswana’s High Court Decriminalise Homosexuality in 2019?

The Southern-African nation of Botswana could soon decriminalise same-sex sexual activity with a date being set in the country’s High Court to hear a case which challenges sections of the colonial error penal code. Despite the clauses being challenged not being exclusively applicable to LGBTQ+ persons, their interpretation has caused grave apprehension to full self-expression among […]