Category: New Zealand
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 […]
Mika says LGBT icon Carmen Rupe had sexual relations with a number of high profile All Blacks. Mika made the claims while on Maori TV’s Native Affairs program, promoting his new book I Have Loved Me A Man. The entertainer says Carmen Rupe was a mentor of his and says he knows the name of […]
Donald Trump’s new policy will insist those couples are married —even if they’re from countries that ban same-sex marriage. The Trump administration will no longer provide visas for same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and U.N. officials serving in the U.S., a policy that went into effect Oct. 1. Foreign Policy reports that the new […]
Auckland’s gay rugby team will travel to Wellington for a game against the Straight Ups Invitational XV and mark the beginning of gay rugby in New Zealand. October’s game will mark 20 years since the first match between two gay rugby teams in New Zealand and the world To mark the 20th anniversary of that […]
There are around 3500 people living with HIV in New Zealand, but estimates show that over 500 don’t know it. A 2018 survey by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation found that 1 in 4 sexually active men who have sex with men (MSM) in New Zealand have never had an HIV test. “This is extremely […]
NZ’s first two expungements against unjust convictions for historical homosexual offences have been made today under the Government’s new Criminal Records Act. In announcing the expungements, Justice Minister Andrew Little says he hopes there will be more to come. “I hope that today other men who were wrongly convicted of homosexual offences, and have lived […]
The proposal is seen as a way to help secure an LGBTI space just off K road, which has become increasingly gentrified. Body Positive CEO Mark Fisher is among those now calling for the establishment of an Auckland Pride Centre just as a way to ensure a space in an area which has holds historical […]