Category: New Zealand
Members of Parliament have used this year’s Pink Shirt Day to launch a cross-party GLBT working group. The group has been established to provide education, leadership and legislative progress on GLBT rights. It was initiated by Green Party MP Jan Logie and includes 12 members from Labour, National, Greens, NZ First and Act. “We are hoping […]
Two judges in Argentina reduced a convicted child abuser’s sentence almost by half, ruling his six-year-old victim had already been traumatised through earlier abuse. The judges ruled that Mario Tolosa would have his six year sentence cut to just 38 months saying the man’s actions should not, in legal terms, be considered “gravely outrageous” because the boy […]
Labour MP for Manurewa Louisa Wall is vowing to continue the fight to ensure that gender identity is included in the Human Rights Act, despite today’s setback. The government today rejected Wall’s request to have gender identity included specifically in the Human Rights Act. Wall sought to introduce the change by having it included in the […]
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 […]