Category: New Zealand
Central Regional Commissioner Terry Buffery has responded to the recent story about a transprisoner being removed from the general prisoner population at Spring Hills Corrections Facility. The reason for her being removed is because “she has a history of making false allegations against other prisoners and staff”, so she is in “protective directed segregation”. Although […]
Corrections has done it again. No Pride in Prisons has been contacted by a transprisoner in Spring Hill Corrections Facility saying that she has been placed in solitary confinement “for her own safety”. Technically, she is in a 23-hour lockdown, where she is isolated from other prisoners and human contact in general, which does amount […]
The Australasian Sexual Health Alliance has awarded Dr Peter Saxton, New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) fellow, and Gay Men’s Sexual Health Research Group director, the ‘mid-career interdisciplinary achiever award’. This is in recognition of of his research work on HIV, specifically on the effectiveness of HIV prevention messages to those most at risk. This was […]
In an unprecedented move, it has been announced Culture Club’s Auckland show on 4 December has been cancelled, in addition to their Christchurch show. Full refunds can be obtained by contacting Ticketmaster. Australian dates are still going ahead. If you can’t make it to those shows, have a read of our cover story on Boy George. […]
Image: Facebook We here at express want to apologise to ‘Bishop’ Brian Tamaki and his followers at Destiny Church, on behalf of LGBT+ people, for all the sin that we have caused with our homosexual and transgender ways. We are sorry that our immoral ways and secret agenda of bringing in a “radical gay” to try […]
Elly Crispin has been appointed as the part-time regional coordinator for RainbowYOUTH’s Bay of Plenty region. Her role encompasses establishing peer-support groups in addition to Tauranga’s own TaurangaPryde, as well as arranging training huis for peer-support group facilitators, and helping distribute LGBT+ resources to schools and other community organisations. Crispin already holds certificates in Health […]
New Zealand’s Transgender Day of Remembrance service will be held at 7 pm on Monday 21 November at St Matthew’s in the City in Auckland. The service will include the traditional reading of names of transpeople who have died in the past year. Transgender Day of Remembrance was started back in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann […]
In a major surprise for Body Positive, the passing of Philip Gipson has left them a decent amount of funds. Gipson was heavily involved with Body Positive in a social capacity, and made many friendships. Mark Fisher, CEO of Body Positive, says that they are “really appreciative of it”. Bequests are unusual for Body Positive, […]