Category: New Zealand
Richard Hills is the Labour Party candidate for Northcote. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? Housing, Inequality and the lack of hope, services and opportunities for many young people. What have you done thus far to help? I’m not currently an MP, but have participated […]
Tamati Coffey is the Labour Party candidate for Rotorua. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? The three greatest issues facing New Zealand right now, are child poverty (250,000 Kids below the poverty line), Jobs and the un-affordability of healthcare, which encourages people not to go. […]
Barry Taylor, President of Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association Asia Pacific (GLISA Asia Pacific) announces Auckland New Zealand as the winning bid to host the 2016 Asia Pacific Outgames . The organiser behind the push for the bid to host the 2016 games Damien Strogen says the games would be a chance for Auckland to share […]
Saturday 9 August marked Uganda’s first Gay Pride march. Days after the country’s court overturned an extreme anti-gay law, Ugandan locals took to the streets to celebrate with a Pride march. Held in Entebbe, 25 km’s from Kampala, the nation’s capital, a crowd of over 200 attendees marched for gay rights.This is the third annual Gay […]
The Green Party is about to publish a report showing that the Education Review Office is failing to ensure that our schools are safe environments for LGBT students, and are calling on the Education Minister to take urgent corrective action. In 2011 in follow up to the ‘It Gets Better’ campaign University of Waikato student […]
express’ own Sam Brooks continues his success with Wine Lips. Following his acclaimed Pride productions Queen and Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys, playwright and express contributor Sam Brooks launches his new play Wine Lips. Wine Lips is site-specific, taking place in Basement Theatre’s greenroom, with a storyline that revolves around actors meeting backstage […]
Less than 10% of NZ couples with a Civil Union have converted to a marriage. 25 same-sex couples have chosen a Civil Union since the law change. Thus far in NZ there have been 881 same-sex marriages. 503 of those have been between women, 378 between men. For the women, 118 of those couples changed […]
Adore Delano performance pulls crowds on wet winter night Legend bar and club was packed to the rafters with an estimated 340 attendees to see the Ru Paul’s Drag Race star perform on Sunday 20 July. Regular entry tickets to the event were $25. 100 attendees opted for special $50 ‘meet and greet’ tickets. Drag […]