Tag: Pride Cook Islands
In April, the Cook Islands finally decriminalised homosexual acts after a long battle between conservative MPs and advocates. YOUR ex speaks to Valery Wichman and Dean Tangata, the two trans women at the forefront of the victorious battle.
Te Tiare Association (TTA) president Valery Wichman is a barrister and solicitor...
Cook Islands' Prime Minister Mark Brown called Friday’s decriminalisation the ‘historic day’ the Cook Islands ‘stomp out discrimination of the LGBT community.’
The Cook Islands has removed a law from its Crimes Act that made homosexuality illegal.
Talking to express magazine, Pride Cook Island’s President Karla Eggelton, who has been campaigning...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has said he intends to redraft the Crimes Act to remove homosexuality, if successful in the next election.
The Cook Islands’ general election will take place at the beginning of next month and current Prime Minister Mark Brown has pledged to redraft 1969’s Crime...
The news has made the front page of the Island's only daily newspaper.
LGBT Cook Islanders will be making history on March 27 as the Islands hosts its very first Pride day.
Organisers say Pride Day will be an opportunity to “raise the visibility of the country’s LGBT+ community and celebrate...
