Day: July 6, 2020

Labour MP Louisa Wall speaks exclusively to express on the Manurewa selection race and the role homophobia may have played in her withdrawal. The Labour MP for Manurewa isn’t going anywhere. Despite withdrawing her candidacy to recontest the Labour selection for her safe South Auckland electorate, Louisa Wall is all but guaranteed a return to […]

Musician Spencer Brown has come out as gay through the music magazine Billboard. The 26-year-old techno DJ from San Francisco started playing with Avicii, and now is the headliner of many musical events, such as the world’s largest electronic music festival Electric Daisy Carnival. In an open letter published by Billboard, he described how he […]

Turkey’s President has launched an attack on members of the LGBT+ community in a public speech where he defended homophobic comments by the leader of the Turkish version of the Red Cross. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused LGBT+ people in his country of “sneaking up on our national and spiritual values again” and claimed queer […]

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”1734″ display=”pro_sidescroll”]Wednesday 1 July 2020 | Viaduct Yacht Club 48 Market Place, Auckland.  Photos | Peter Jennings. Rainbow Auckland is New Zealand’s largest LGBTI membership organisation and provides a fun, social environment where professionals and the community can get together for networking and to make friends. ‘We Are Ready’ was the organisation’s first post-COVID […]

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”1733″ display=”pro_sidescroll”]Thursday 2 July | The Tuesday Club 42 Airedale St, Auckland Photos | Peter Jennings Lil O’Brien’s ‘Kiwi girl’s coming out and coming of age’ novel launched in Auckland at The Tuesday Club. O’Brien spent two years telling her coming-out story as a part of Rainbow Youth’s high-school education programme, which inspired her […]