Day: November 14, 2025

YOUR EX’s Oliver Hall talks to Body Positive Executive Director Mark Fisher about the organisation’s new sexual health clinic, Test’n’Treat, and how this community-first model is changing healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.  It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon on Karangahape Road, and you’ve just turned onto Poynton Terrace to walk into a sexual health clinic. But […]

The wave of cancellations sweeping through the entertainment industry is having a staggering impact on LGBTQ+ representation, with nearly half of all queer characters vanishing from television screens in 2025 — and more cuts expected before year’s end. According to Deadline, 41% of the 489 LGBTQ characters featured on scripted television this year will not […]

Kazakhstan is moving to adopt legislation that mirrors Russia’s controversial anti-LGBTQ+ laws, sparking alarm from human rights groups and LGBTQ+ advocates. On Wednesday, Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament, the Mäjilis, advanced a bill that would ban the “dissemination of information containing propaganda of pedophilia and/or non-traditional sexual orientation” in public spaces, media, and online. Framed […]

New research from ILGA World has revealed that only 1 in 5 countries globally have laws that explicitly protect LGBTI+ students from bullying in schools — leaving the vast majority of queer and gender-diverse youth vulnerable to harassment, abuse, and systemic neglect. According to ILGA’s latest data, just six countries — Andorra, Finland, Greece, the […]