Category: New Zealand
In a first, the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) commissioned a survey of its LGBT+ members to find out how much harassment they undergo, as well as how well the university supports them. It is no secret that queer people, students included, are at risk for harassment, and the findings reflect this, with a quarter […]
express magazine is looking for contributors, both writers and photographers – even better if you can do both! We are welcoming applicants from all of New Zealand, but we are particularly focussing on contributors from Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. In addition to this, express is looking for monthly columnists for the website. If you […]
UPDATE: 25/11/16 Two for one tickets for our express readers, head to Ticketmaster and use the promo code “UNLEASHED”. Think Much Ado About Nothing but with same-sex relations (and less Shakespearean English). Or Vanderpump Rules, but two retro-fitted sheds on the Auckland waterfront instead of Sur, and with far less glamour. Starting with a […]
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has launched an online petition for the government to stop withholding HIV medication until a patient has a sufficiently damaged immune system. In an opinion piece written by the executive director of the NZAF, Jason Myers, he talks about how ending HIV transmission in New Zealand is completely within […]
The Legacy Project is a theatre development programme geared specifically towards LGBT+ writers and works. For Legacy Project 4, six brand-new rainbow works are going to be performed in a week-long season as part of Auckland Pride 2017. This is where you come in: obviously, plays need actors, so Legacy Project is holding an open […]
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 […]