Day: July 6, 2020

Jul 06
Exclusive: Louisa Wall Speaks Out

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 […]

Jul 06
DJ Spencer Brown: “I’m gay. Now it’s a lot easier said than a few years ago.”

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 […]

Jul 06
Turkish President Launches Fresh Attack on LGBT+ Community

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 […]