Day: December 21, 2018

Dec 21
ATEED Confirms Funding Pulled from Auckland’s 2019 “Pride Parade”

Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED) will not be funding Auckland Pride’s 2019 Parade/March as it fails to reach Auckland Pride’s agreed outcomes with the council authority. Speaking with express, Head of Major Events, Stuart Turner, confirmed that ATEED have declared there will be no ATEED council funding for the new format ‘grassroots-led’ Parade/March that […]

Dec 21
Victory For LGBTI Parents as Israeli Court Rules Gay Parents Must be Named on Adopted Children’s Birth Certificate

In a victory for LGBTI rights in the Middle East, Israel’s top court has officially ruled in favour of two gay dads, who both requested to be officially named as the parents on their adopted child’s birth certificate. Following on from a dispute with Israel’s Interior Ministry, after officials refused to include both of Dads names on the certificate […]

Dec 21
Next British Census Will Count LGBT People For First Time

The United Kingdom will count LGBT people in its next census, something that New Zealand failed to do in 2018’s Census.  Scheduled for the year 2021, The next United Kingdom census intends to record whether someone considers themselves straight, gay, or bisexual according to organisers.  John Pullinger, who is a national statistician in the UK, and is […]