Day: May 28, 2020

After two years of declining numbers of HIV cases in New Zealand, there was a slight increase in 2019, but many of these cases were first diagnosed overseas. Figures released today by the AIDS Epidemiology Group, University of Otago, show a total of 212 cases in 2019, an increase from the 185 reported in 2018 […]

One lesbian icon is backing another to remain the MP for Manurewa.   Marilyn Waring has publicly come to the defence of Louisa Wall as she faces a selection battle for her safe Labour seat of Manurewa. Waring who served as a National MP from 1975 to 1984 is a prominent LGBT public policy scholar […]

Larry Kramer, the groundbreaking author and tireless activist for gay rights has died in New York at the age of 84. Kramer died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan, the New York Times reported, citing his husband, David Webster, who said Kramer had died of pneumonia. Born in 1935, he grew up in and around Washington, […]