Category: New Zealand
Labour MP Marja Lubeck has put a bill in the ballot to ban gay conversion therapy. The Member’s Bill was spurred after a petition by campaigners asking for a ban of conversion therapy gathered about 20,000 signatures. Lubeck says the practice of gay conversion therapy a “flawed abhorrent practice that has no place in our country.” The Labour […]
Baker, aka Buffy, died on Labour day from a heart attack. Taking to Facebook to announce the news, Baker’s performance partner and husband Jonathan ‘Bimbo’ Smith paid tribute to Baker saying “he was caring, loving, passionate, generous and so giving of his time to me and others.” Labour weekend marked the couple’s 24 year anniversary. […]
Once a renowned men’s bar on Auckland’s K road, Urge’s notorious party brand is producing sexy nights out all over the country. Oliver Hall caught up owners Alan Granville and Paul Heard to reminisce about the little bar that could. Urge bar opened at 490 K road in November 1997, run by Larry Quickenden with […]
Differences between gay and non-gay people are not about sex according to School of Social Work Professor Mark Henrickson, who will propose in a lecture next month that it is more about the ways we understand the world and decide what is true. The lecture, to be held on the Auckland campus on November 5, […]
There will now be no cap to the number of gender reassignments surgeries performed in New Zealand. The Government plans to dramatically increase the number of genital affirmation surgeries for transgender patients. Newsroom.co.nz reports that the Government will remove the current cap which is currently set at three male to female surgeries and one female to […]
The Nominees for prestigious NZ Comedy Awards the 2019 Billy T’s were released yesterday. The majority of nominees come from the queer community with James Mustapic, Ray Shipley and Tom Sainsbury all nominated, alongside Kura Forrester and Donna Brookbanks. James Mustapic (best known for his web series’ Shorty Street Scandal and Repressed Memories) has a […]
Auckland Museum is the first Museum in New Zealand to have been awarded the Rainbow Tick, an external audit and quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation to be a safe, welcoming and inclusive place for people of diverse gender identity and sexual orientation. “The Museum encourages diversity in the workplace and sees real value in embracing people from a […]
Brazilian born Lesbian Boxer Geovana Peres has become the number one ranked boxer in one of the Major boxing bodies, the World Boxing Association. Peres who got her New Zealand Citizenship in July 2018, started boxing in 2015 as an amateur. After three amateur bouts, Geovana turned pro in 2017. Since then she won two […]