Category: New Zealand
Victoria University will be celebrating Pride Week from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 of July and has announced a line up of events taking place around Wellington to celebrate. Monday: Board games night hosted at The Preservatorium, 39 Webb St from 6 to 10pm. Tuesday: Screening of intersex documentary ‘Intersexion’, and a post-film discussion with Mani […]
The government has dedicated around $500,000 in the last three years to providing services and support for GLBT young people, with a further $20,000 of dedicated funding being announced by Youth Minister Nikki Kaye. The additional funding will be dedicated to GLBT young people who who are leaving school and entering employment, education or training. “This is a time of […]
express reports that the new Countdown supermarket near Ponsonby Rd has already become a top site for express magazines! Since opening in June, Kunal Sharma at express reports that the stand situated near the exit to the new supermarket is having to be refilled every 5 days. Each fill is over 200 copies. Ponsonby Countdown joins Williamson Avenue […]
A quick response was made to Green MP Kevin Hague’s tabling of a petition to reverse all outdated and obsolete convictions of homosexual sex yesterday. The petition requested that Parliament also issue an official apology to people convicted of homosexual acts that would today be considered lawful, but were set alongside non-consensual sex before the Homosexual Law […]
Green Party MP Kevin Hague will today table a petition in Parliament calling for an official apology to, and pardon of, people convicted of consensual acts under anti-homosexuality laws that were overturned 30 years ago. The tabling of a petition by Wiremu Demchick coincides with the thirty-year anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform, which is being […]
This morning, a rainbow flag was raised in the grounds of the New Zealand Parliament in celebration of the upcoming anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform bill passing in New Zealand. The date of the bill passing was 9 July, 1986, and will also be celebrated with numerous events happening over the coming weekend. This […]
A Whangarei school has elected a same-sex couple as “queen and queen” of the ball in what’s believed to be a first for Northland. The national organisation charged with supporting LGBTQ and gender diverse young people, RainbowYouth, described the election of the young women by fellow Whangarei Girls’ High School students as “amazing”. RainbowYouth communications […]
Rainbow Youth’s General Manager extraordinaire Duncan Matthews will be sleeping rough this Thursday 7 July to raise awareness and funds to combat LGBTI youth homelessness in New Zealand with the 2016 Lifewise Big Sleep Out. Alas, Matthews will not be doing it alone! He has assembled ‘Team Rainbow’, a group of prominent New Zealanders who are sleeping rough too. […]