Category: New Zealand

APFI (Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated) has announced the dates for next year’s Auckland Pride Festival 2015.  The popularity of the Auckland Pride Festival has grown to include another week! Lucky visitors to the festival can be assured that all parts of the rainbow community are included in this near on one month celebration. Key events on […]

Did you know that over 1 in 5 people living in Auckland are of Asian ethnicity? Despite this, Asian peoples often lack visibility and representation in LGBTIQ services and community groups. Seeking to fill this gap, EquAsian is a new social-support group for LGBTIQ people of all ages who descend from all parts of the […]

The games take over Glasgow from 23 July – 3 August with most of the competing countries still punishing homosexuality. 42 of the 53 countries that are participating in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games still criminalise homosexuality. All eight Asian countries attending the Scotland Games discriminate, with penalties for same sex intercourse ranging from 20 years […]

Three months after a well publicised name-change owner operator Wayne Clark returned Ponsonby Road’s Poof bar back to it’s original title, following community support. The announcement came in late April that owner Wayne Clark was changing the name of his recently opened boutique bar from Poof to POP on Ponsonby following pressure from the general public. […]

Statistics NZ invites you to comment on developing a consistent way of measuring and using gender identity data. This complex topic has waged much debate and whilst these discussions have happened Statistics NZ recognises there is no one universal definition standard for gender identity. Statistics NZ’ concept is set out as below. ‘The proposed concept […]

John Key has left many with the impression he will repeal marriage equality if elected into Parliament again, said the Green Party on Friday. Reports have emerged that at a meeting with Pacific church leaders in Mangere, on Tuesday, many attendees walked away from the meeting with the notion that the Prime Minster would repeal […]

This year the team at the New Zealand AIDS Foundation are putting up their hands to participate in the Auckland Marathon and fundraise for the expansion of their HIV prevention and support services. With Auckland Marathon as a charity partner NZAF are looking for members of the community to become “Golden Runners” to participate and […]

ONE STATE WIVES: Dr Cindy Killion and wife Beth enjoy the Wellington cafe scene. The couple hopes that one day soon their marriage will be recognised in all of the United States of America.  Gays and lesbians have it pretty easy in New Zealand, a visiting academic from the USA says. Winona State University professor […]