Category: New Zealand

On August 26, The Labour Party formally pledged to tackle a number of issues specifically affecting the GLBT community, announcing their Labour policies. Labour’s promises included: Making our schools safer, stating it would eradicate, “discrimination, violence and bullying. Improving the lives of trans* and intersex New Zealanders by implementing the ‘To Be Who I am’ […]

Body Positive (BP) have announced CEO Bruce Kilmister will retire at the end of the year. “Bruce’s first involvement in BP was so long ago that no records are available to confirm exactly when that was,” BP Chairman Ashley Barratt tells us. In the late nineties, Kilmister became chairman of the board of BP and […]

Gay Ski Week opened with a bang – taking over Queenstown’s seriously cool pop up bar – The Find. The party started at 6pm catering to those who were jumping up at 7am to hit the slopes, but for those spending the Sabbath as their day of rest – it continued till the early hours.  […]

These are GMSH’s five priorities for the 2014 general election – “5 for ‘14” – to improve the sexual health of gay and bisexual men in New Zealand. Although it focusses on gay and bisexual men, many priorities are relevant to the health of the broader gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (GLBTI) population. 1. […]

Green Party leaders Metiria Turei and Russel Norman on why we should be ticking their box this election. What do you think are the three greatest problems facing NZ at the moment? Our rivers and beaches being dirty and at risk from pollution and oil spills, child poverty and inequality and an economy that is […]

The LEGACY PROJECT is back after a successful first year developing scripts and sharing them with our LGBT community. We are again calling on emerging or established writers to submit scripts and share their unique Kiwi LGBT stories. We want to help create six short plays and will offer you support to grow your stories in […]

In what is believed to be a first, NZ’s only mixed GLBT touch team the LYC Chargers are vying for the top spot in the Newmarket Touch Winter League. The Chargers have been making great progress over the winter season and are currently sitting 2nd on the leaderboard. Tonight they go to battle against the current number […]

Auckland Pride has announced four new board members all hoping to continue to take our festival to new heights. Meet Phylesha Brown-Acton. Please can you tell us a bit about your background and experience to introduce our readers to you? Brown-Acton has worked for Pasefika LGBTQI communities regionally, nationally and internationally, for over two decades. […]