Category: New Zealand
Nominations open for Rainbow Wellington Board Nominations for the Rainbow Wellington Board are now open ahead of their AGM (Annual General Meeting) in May. The non-profit organisation, previously operating under the name GAP, organises social activities in the Greater Wellington region and represents the Human Rights interests of queer and gender diverse people. Rainbow Wellington […]
Image: Hagen Hopkins Last month, we wrote about ex-Labour MP and former Carterton mayor Georgina Beyer’s scheduled kidney transplant, which was supposed to take place in late March. However, the surgery was postponed at the last minute, a scenario that left her “devastated” as she had built herself up it, and “suddenly, it was whipped away”. But earlier […]
Jay Bennie announced on 10 April that the GayNZ.com website will switch off at the end of May, after 16 years, citing “the operation we have built and sustained, with a few changes on the way, may not be the best one for the future.” The Gay Guide has also ceased publication. Jay and Neil, […]
All Black team member Lima Sopoaga is facing a formal employment process after he made what has been considered as a ‘homophobic comment’ on Instagram. This has occurred just ten months after the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) announced its launch of a diversity initiative in an attempt to eliminate discrimination both on and off […]
express interviewed Alex Taylor, a leading young composer who’s championing anarchic and vibrant opera for a younger generation. Performing in the upcoming show of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, we found out everything from what it has been like re-working the music, how the audience will react to the performance, and who came up with the costumes! What has […]
John Thorp, a transgender writer and research scientist has been named the victim of the train accident that occurred near Morrinsville on March 23rd. The NZ Herald reported that the 90-year-old man was travelling to Thames from the Waikato Hospital when his car collided with an on-coming train. His wife, Hazel, was also in the […]
The Regent Theatre in Dunedin has recently installed signs on two of its unisex-accessible toilets, but they aren’t quite what you would have imagined… The new sign shows four figures – a female, male, gender non-specific, and someone with a disability – across the top, and then a new addition of a green alien lying below […]
Following on from our previous article, 37 year-old Mikio Filitonga has been found guilty of infecting his boyfriend with HIV. He was on trial at Auckland District Court earlier in the month on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard and committing a criminal nuisance by doing an unlawful act. The Crown stated […]