Category: New Zealand
Auckland Council’s Community Development and Safety Committee has voted 7 – 2 to allow the creation of a rainbow advisory board to proceed. In an impassioned plea to colleagues before the vote, chairperson Cathy Casey talked of the challenges Auckland’s GLBT community still faced and expressed her view that the advisory board was long overdue saying […]
The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre has welcomed the 500,000th visitor through the doors of the beautiful Pah Homestead since opening to the public less than five years ago. The Wallace Arts Trust have been tracking visitor numbers since the Arts Centre opened in August 2010 and one lucky visitor marked this milestone on Saturday […]
David Walliams and Alan Cumming are both on the list of international guests at this year’s writers festival. Now in its 15th year, the Auckland Writers Festival plays host to more than 150 writers over five days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free family events. The Festival saw a […]
2013 Auckland mayoral candidate Stephen Berry has slammed the current proposal for a Auckland council ‘rainbow advisory panel.’ Speaking to Levi Joule, he explains why he is opposed to the advisory panel as well as other GLBT related expenditure. Auckland council will tomorrow decide on whether the proposed Rainbow Advisory panel will proceed. If created, the panel would […]
Auckland’s Basement Adult Shop & Cruise Club has been burgled. Located on Canada street, Newton, The Basement is a adult shop and popular cruise lounge. Basement co owner Neil Bartlett told express that the burglary occurred at around 5.45am Monday morning, when over $1500 of stock was stolen from the premises. The main stock stolen was […]
Express can reveal that the NZ AIDS Foundation is currently lobbying the Ministry of Health to trial Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in New Zealand. Following the controversy around the NZAF’s comments on porn star and PrEP advocate Blue Bailey’s visit to New Zealand, Executive Director Shaun Robison has reaffirmed that the organisation is actively lobbying for […]
Controversial US bareback porn star Blue Bailey who is currently in New Zealand shooting a documentary on PrEP has drawn the ire of the NZAF. Blue Bailey who stars in the controversial gay porn film “Viral Loads” is currently in New Zealand to shoot a yet to be named documentary focusing in part on Bailey’s […]
The man, who is aged in his 40s appeared in Auckland High Court yesterday on charges relating to the infection of another man with HIV. According to court documents, the defendant “failed to take reasonable precaution of a dangerous thing, namely HIV, knowing such an act would endanger the life of the complaint.” The man […]