Category: New Zealand
The Auckland Pride board have appointed two new co chairs. Vinnie Sykes and Kirsten Sibbit have been appointed co chairs of the Auckland Pride board. Auckland Pride says the pair will bring a range of business and event strategy skills to the helm of the APFI Board. Kirsten, a UK-qualified lawyer, began life working in corporate […]
Renewed calls have been made to make the HPV vaccine available for men in New Zealand. There have been renewed calls for New Zealand to make the HPV vaccine available to men following a new study into the rates of the cancer-linked human papilloma virus (HPV) in men. The study is reigniting debate over the Government’s […]
New Zealand Scouts has voiced its support for the decision made by Boy Scouts of America to allow gay scout leaders. New Zealand Scouts has welcomed the news that the Boy Scouts of America will lift the four decade ban on gay adult leaders. Speaking to the NZ Herald, Scouts NZ chief executive Niamh Lawless […]
Farmers will introduce gender-neutral changing rooms into its stores in response to an investigation into insensitive treatment of an Auckland Trans Woman. Farmers is set to introduce gender neutral changing rooms into its stores after Auckland woman Mary Haddock-Staniland’s was the victim of transphobic abuse at their Botany branch in June. Ms Haddock-Staniland was trying on shorts […]
A popular cruising venue in Flatbush has come under the spotlight as local community members have said they want to ban ‘gay sexual activity’ in the public park. Ormiston Community Vision, a community group representing the interests of residents and ratepayers in the Ormiston area, have raised concerns over the gay cruising going on at Murphy’s […]
Medulla Oblongata is both gay and a refugee. He performs drag and will star in July 18th’s episode of Both Worlds, a show about first and second generation Kiwis. He speaks to Levi Joule about the need to do more for those seeking asylum in New Zealand. Medulla first arrived in New Zealand in 2004 […]
An Auckland man has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the violent abuse of his children, one of whom he suspected was a lesbian. The Auckland man convicted of the violent abuse of his six children has been sentenced to a jail term of seven and a half years, of […]
The Gay Auckland Business Association is no longer. GABA has ditched the Gay Auckland Business Association name and will now be known as GABA Inc. The name change was voted into effect unanimously by the AGM. Speaking at the AGM, Geoffrey Marshall likened the change to “the Auckland Savings Bank changing it’s name to simply ASB” […]