Category: New Zealand
A silver medal on the dance floor, an unbeaten gold-medal run on the hockey turf and the discovery of an international sporting whānau made the recent Gay Games an unforgettable experience for New Zealanders Scott Cole and Hayden Boyce. The pair arrived in Valencia with fewer than two years of dancing together behind them and […]
OutRunnerz founder Ken Ogg and lead runner Josh Martin share the keys to the growing success of Auckland’s LGBTQ+ running club, where fitness meets friendship When Ken Ogg first joined LGBTQ+ sports clubs, he was searching for something he felt had been missing in his youth: a sense of belonging. After competing in swimming at the […]
Jessie Lewthwaite wants a drink, as she reflects on NZ’s history of lesbian watering holes and why we still need them It’s 2010, and a 21-year-old Jessie had just graduated from university as a high school teacher. Having grown up in central Queensland and been to uni in north Queensland, my first priority was to get the fuck out of Queensland. With […]
The Department of Corrections has settled a Human Rights Act claim brought by a transgender employee who alleged he was prevented from carrying out prisoner searches in a way that recognised his gender. The employee, known as Adam because of a non-publication order, filed proceedings with the Human Rights Review Tribunal in 2024. He claimed […]
A group challenging New Zealand’s puberty blocker ban has told the High Court at Wellington that the decision was never really about medication, but about the identity of the young people seeking care. “This is self-evidently about the identity of these particular users. It’s about who this very small group of young people are,” Victoria […]
Historian Gareth Watkins reflects on important July dates for the progress of New Zealand’s rainbow communities. Late July 1970 At the National Party’s annual conference in Rotorua, delegates endorsed a proposal urging the Government to liberalise the law relating to homosexuality. Moving the remit, Mr Sutton of Miramar said the question of homosexuality was charged […]
With the commemoration of Matariki and the anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform both landing in July, the Burnett Foundation is drumming up momentum for an exciting year of change ahead, writes Content Manager Ethan Christensen We’re stoked to see recorded HIV diagnoses trending downwards for another year. From our good friends at the University of […]
Mayor of South Wairarapa, Fran Wilde, reflects on the 40th anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform and why social media may have changed the outcome As Aotearoa marks the 40th anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform, former MP Fran Wilde says reform was won through courage and face-to-face persuasion. But she is not convinced it would have […]