Category: New Zealand
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 […]
The motion to create a Auckland council rainbow panel has passed. Auckland council’s governing body has just voted in favour of the creation of a new rainbow panel.The irst 18 months of funding for the new panel will come out of the Mayoral budget. The panel will provide a local government platform from which to address […]
The Auckland council’s governing body will decide on whether or not it will proceed with the proposed rainbow panel this afternoon. The governing body has just taken a break for lunch, with the decision on the rainbow panel to be made shortly after the meeting reconvenes. If formally approved, the panel will provide a local government platform […]
Kiwis and South Sydney Rabbitohs player Issac Luke has been fined $10,000 for using a homophobic slur on Instagram. Luke has had $5000 of the fine suspended but will be required to undergo an education program after making a homophobic slur on social media. The slur was made on Good Friday after Luke made a post attempting […]