Category: New Zealand
Alice Torres, Director of Surrogacy Cancun and surrogacy facilitator for New Zealander’s David and Nicholas Beard, has fought back against accusations of fraudulent behaviour. The new parents claim that Alice Torres disappeared following the final payment for the surrogacy services in spite of the fact that their newborn, Lachlan, required a significant amount of post-birth care including […]
Carmen Rupe has been immortalised in the National Portrait Gallery in contemporary artist Te Mete’s ‘Carmen Rupe – The Final Portrait’. Rupe is perhaps New Zealand’s best known drag performer, particularly celebrated in Wellington. She was also a brothel keeper, GLBT rights activist, and unapologetic icon in the queer community. She passed away in December 2011. The portrait […]
Coinciding with International Transgender Day of Visibility, InsideOUT, a national youth organisation, has today released a new resource for schools titled ‘Making Schools Safer for Trans and Gender Diverse Students.’ The resource has been released in response to the growing number of transgender students in New Zealand schools. With growing acceptability and increased conversations happening […]
Over $15,000 has been raised to get David and Nicholas Beard’s ‘triplings’ home to New Zealand since the call was put out for donations on givealittle on 27 March. In spite of four years of careful planning, David and Nicholas’ dream of becoming fathers turned into a financial nightmare when a Central American surrogate agency disappeared […]
Body Positive to be gifted $5000 if Wellington re-opens Bruce Kilmister, Body Positive Interim Chair said on 24 March that “there is a strong feeling from the Wellington members that they would like to see the office re-opened. Everyone appreciates the extra cost and expense but we feel that with the use of volunteers there could […]
He Kai ata rau hui, which will take place at the University of Waikato, aims to address the prevalence of HIV stigma and discrimination for Māori people. Bringing together an impressive line up on speakers such as Professor Tīmoti Kāretu, and Hon Nanaia Mahuta , the hui will have particular focus on increasing knowledge of issues and impacts […]
Current Executive Director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, Shaun Robinson, has today announced that he has officially resigned from his role. Robinson has been the Executive Director of NZAF for the past 5 years and is leaving the position in order to take up a new position as CEO of the Mental Health Foundation. Over […]
There is a trend in films and television of transgender characters being played by cis gendered people. Take Jeffrey Tambor in Transparent, or Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl. While trans visibility is on the rise in the media, the reality is that these roles are very rarely played by trans people. Laverne Cox, transgender star of hit […]