Category: New Zealand
A quick response was made to Green MP Kevin Hague’s tabling of a petition to reverse all outdated and obsolete convictions of homosexual sex yesterday.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. […]
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 […]