Category: New Zealand
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” […]
The ninth of July marks 29 years since the passage of homosexual law reform in New Zealand. The ninth of July marks 29 years since homosexual sexual law reform passed in New Zealand. Introduced to parliament by the MP for Wellington Central, Fran Wilde, the bill passed it’s final reading 49 – 44 votes after […]
Stephan Ferris, aka porn star Blue Bailey, has had his formal complaint to the Press Council dismissed. Gayexpress ran a story written by news editor Levi Joule on 29 April entitled “NZAF Denounce Visiting Bareback Porn Star”. All seven principles which formed the complaint were not upheld. Richard Todd, director of the company which publishes […]
A raft of constitutional changes are being proposed for the GABA AGM. GABA will vote for the first time in 13 years on a raft of changes to its constitution. Among the changes, is a proposal to allow couples individual voting rights, the name change of ‘gay business people’ to ‘LGBTI people’ and the removal […]