Tag: New Zealand Parliament
The mother of Marriage Equality, Labour list MP and former member for Manurewa, Louisa Wall, has resigned from parliament.
Wall who was responsible for the passage of marriage equality in New Zealand in 2013 was first elected as a list MP for nine months in 2008, before returning to Parliament...
Parliament has unanimously passed the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill.
The minister responsible for the bill’s success tells express she’s “still on a high!”
The bill will make it easier for gender-diverse people to amend their gender on their birth certificates. Trans New Zealanders will no longer have to...
MPs past and present gathered for the dawn ceremony marking three and a half decades since New Zealand decriminalised homosexuality.
New Zealand is about to mark 35 years since the passage of homosexual law reform tomorrow. Fran Wilde’s New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform bill was narrowly approved by the nation’s...
Georgia Beyer was present for the occasion.
The Transgender flag was raised at Parliament’s forecourt to Mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. The world‘a first transgender MP, Georgina Beyer was there to mark the occasion, as was Labour MP and mother of marriage equality Louisa Wall.
Now in its twelfth year,...
In percentage terms, the NZ Parliament has the most LGBT representation of any nationally elected body, although the number could change on special votes.
After Saturday’s election, there will likely be eleven self-identified members of the New Zealand Parliament who identify as LGBT.
This will be an increase from the...
