Category: New Zealand
A 45 year old man and his wife have appeared in the Auckland district court on charges of child abuse, relating in part to the prolonged abuse of a teenage daughter the father believed was lesbian. The couple this morning plead guilty to a total of 16 counts of abuse, including hitting and slapping his […]
Unable to legally marry in Australia, Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden travelled to Rotorua, New Zealand with the help of money raised on a crowdfunding website to tie the knot. Lee Brandsen’s dying wish was to marry her partner Sandra Yates. The couple have been together for the past eight years. Lee is now terminally ill with end-stage […]
The Annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will take place at venues throughout New Zealand on Sunday 17th May. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial now in its 32nd year, is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilisation campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place […]
Former All Black Andy Haden has dismissed research that shows 87% of gay men and 76% of lesbians have been subjected to verbal slurs while playing sports in New Zealand. A new survey which revealed that gay men in New Zealand are among the most likely in the world to stop playing sports as adults has […]
Acclaimed gay composer Jack Body has died just days after receiving an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award. Body, 70, died at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington yesterday after failing health in recent years. The Arts Foundation said in a statement that Body would be sorely missed. “Jack was awarded a Laureate Award in 2004 […]
Jack Body, composer and Arts Foundation Laureate, has received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award during a private award ceremony at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington. Limited to a living circle of twenty, Icons are artists whose work represents a legacy to New Zealand and have made a significant impact on their chosen art form. […]
A Tasmanian couple will have to marry in New Zealand in order to fulfil the dying wish of a woman who has only weeks to live. Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden first met about 30 years ago, when Sandra volunteered to pick apples in an orchard Lee managed. But Sandra was married with children at the […]
The Auckland University Students’ Association will be holding it;s second annual Pride Week next week. Hosted by the AUSA Queer Rights Officer, Pride Week, now in its second year, is a week of fun events for students, staff and alumni, and is focused around LGBT young people and their stories. “It will be a great […]