Category: New Zealand
Helen Clark is a busy woman. She’s got her hands full making New Zealand proud as the 8th Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and recently, she she declared her candidacy for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations. But Aunty Helen isn’t going to stop her intensely busy schedule from expressing her support of the GLBT […]
A crisis counselling helpline will shut down unless the Government steps in with funding. Lifeline Aotearoa says it only has enough money to run for one more year, as its appeals to the Government for help have been rejected. It was asking the public for donations. The service provides free 24-hour mental health assistance for issues such as bullying, […]
To mark the thirty-year anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand, express talks to some of the key players in this remarkable social and political change and considers what still needs to be done. David Hindley I was one of the co-ordinators of the Gay Task Force in the capital, with a […]
Dakota Hemmingson has been awarded over $13,000 in compensation and lost wages after she was told to resign following coming out as transgender. Hemmingson was an employee at Barkers Groom Room for six months in 2015. She came out as transgender and was told by her superiors that she no longer fit the “commercial profile” […]
Mika Haka Studio is only days away from releasing the second season of The Aroha Project, a web-series focused on exploring the realities of bullying, alienation and suicide in the lives of a diverse range of young New Zealanders available Friday 1 July on TVNZ on Demand. Created by Mika Haka and directed by Ramon Te […]
Following a six month audit process, central city law firm Russell Mcveigh has been awarded the Rainbow Tick certification. The Rainbow Tick programme is a continual quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation ensure it is a safe and welcoming workplace for employees of diverse gender identity and sexual orientation and demonstrates a business is an inclusive […]
Former NZ Idol runner-up Nikki Lee Carlson (formally Nik Carlson) has this week revealed to Women’s Weekly that she “had a good life as a guy” but always thought there was something missing. Sharing her gender reassignment journey with the New Zealand magazine, Nikki says that she has had four surgeries in the Thai city of Phuket […]
Amy Jane Bedwell talks to James (Jim) Peters, Homosexual Law Reform forerunner and author of the only dedicated personal history of the HLR Era, Fire and Brimstone. Gay Task Force member James Peters was one of the pioneering faces of queer rights in New Zealand. Alongside other forerunners like Bruce Kilmister, Bill Logan, and Fran […]