Category: New Zealand
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 […]
A Hastings man who was accused a while ago for using Grindr to send messages to another person, convincing them to meet with underage boys and use them for sex, can finally be named. 24 year-old Michael John Kight, appeared in the Wellington District Court for a number of charges against him, including convincing a […]
There’s no question that Adele’s New Zealand debut was a special event. It’s not every day that more than 45,000 Kiwis rush to Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on a Thursday night. But then again, last night was anything but ordinary, as multi-Grammy-award winner Adele made sure that we were treated to a show that, while staged in […]
Wellington Pride threw their first youth ball on March 18, which saw around 200 youths attend, ready to dance their rainbow socks off! Youth leader, Bella Simpson, organised the event and said people had come from as far as Otaki and the Wairarapa to attend the event. The theme of the ball was ‘Fantasy Forest’ […]
A gay man lied to his partner about his positive HIV status, having unprotected sex with him and leaving him to find out through ‘sero-converting’, part of the process that happens when HIV establishes itself in your body. The evidence was given to the Auckland District Court as Mikio Filitonga was charged for causing ‘grievous […]
30-year-old Alex Aleti Seu has been sentenced to six years and nine months jail time, with a minimum non-parole period of four years during an appearance in the Dunedin District Court on Tuesday (15/3), following a violent and sexual attack she committed back in June 25, as well as the indecent assault on two of […]
The Wellington Pride Festival is the capital’s annual celebration of LGBT+ (queer and transgender) identities, and the 2017 festival is going to be the biggest in 25 years! It is a key time of celebration for this diverse community – but some stories are still not being told. Takatāpui – LGBT+ Māori identity – is […]