Category: New Zealand
Former NZ Prime Minister and current United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark expressed her commitment to “advance[ing] the rights of GLBT people” in a CSIS Pacific Partners Initiative Statesmen’s Forum as part of her campaign for Secretary General of the UN. In the audience question portion of the part-presentation, part-interview forum with John J. […]
With a huge increase in demand for gender reassignment surgery in the UK being reported by The Guardian, express considers the current situation in New Zealand and asks notable Kiwi’s what needs to change. The Herald reported in April that there were 86 New Zealander’s on the waiting list for gender reassignment surgery, however Newshub […]
Christchurch’s HLR30 Pride committee have today announced a Fairy Tale Gala Dinner and Dance to celebrate the thirty-year anniversary of the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform bill in New Zealand on Friday 29 July 2016. HLR30 Pride committee is a joint effort from Christchurch Pride, Pink Health Otautahi, UpRising Trust, Q-topia, New Zealand AIDS […]
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A quick response was made to Green MP Kevin Hague’s tabling of a petition to reverse all outdated and obsolete convictions of homosexual sex yesterday.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 […]