Category: New Zealand
He tātai whetū ki te rangi, ko te ira tangata ki te whenua. The stars come out to play at the Auckland Pride Parade! With over 45 entries and floats expected, the Auckland Pride Parade 2015 is the main event and the divine spectacle of the Auckland Pride Festival, celebrating our wonderously diverse Rainbow Community, […]
Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated has reappointed Richard Taki as the Auckland Pride Parade Director for 2015. After directing last year’s Pride Parade, and marrying his partner Shane while in Auckland, Taki returned to Melbourne and his work at the Victorian College of the Arts. He was actively involved in the 20th International AIDS Conference in […]
St Andrew’s on The Terrace Presbyterian Church (Wellington) says it is deeply disappointed but defiant in the face of the news that yesterday the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has voted to ban Ministers from performing marriages between same-sex couples. “This decision is deeply disturbing and we strongly dissent from it,” says St Andrew’s […]
Have you ever had to flee from your own country because of who you are? We commonly hear of refugees and asylum seekers having to flee from their homelands due to conflict, but how often do we hear of those who flee simply because of who they are? or because they don’t fit the gender identity […]
It feels like only yesterday we were bidding adieu to openly gay former US Ambassador David Huebner, but like a gift from the Vatican itself, spunky Italian Carmelo Barbarello has arrived for his three-year stint as Italian Ambassador to NZ. Barbarello who is married (sorry boys!) arrived in Wellington with his husband Javier Barca, and […]
The National HIV Treatment Seminar presented: positive updates on medication research, sad truths of HIV stigma and united consensus for broad ‘safe-sex, medication-access and regular testing’ combined approach to tackling the disease. On Friday 26 September, the National HIV Treatments Seminar was held at Auckland Hospital. Hosted by Body Positive, the conference’s key objectives included […]
In an interview with Radio New Zealand Grant Robertson has claimed he would now be Prime Minister if he had lead Labour at the last election. Since Cunliffe’s registration, which comes into affect at the end of today’s caucus meeting, Robertson has made his intensions for leadership clear. If he was successful, Robertson would be […]
The NZAF’s award-winning LYC campaign will take a change in creative direction this November as the company part ways with creative agency Interbrand. “We put the LYC creative contract out to market to ensure we were getting the best value available, while building on our highly effective HIV prevention programme,” the NZAF’s Communications & Marketing […]