Category: New Zealand

Parliament has unanimously passed the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill. The minister responsible for the bill’s success tells express she’s “still on a high!” The bill will make it easier for gender-diverse people to amend their gender on their birth certificates. Trans New Zealanders will no longer have to present supporting medical documentation […]

Aucklanders are finding it difficult to access the safe sex drug following Lockdown, and Pharmac are slow to make the necessary adjustments to help. Auckland’s ongoing COVID-19 restrictions have highlighted flaws in eligibility for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PreP). PreP reduces the risk of HIV infection by 99 per cent. The drug is fully funded for those […]

Amy is one of five babies that have now been conceived through Sperm Positive, the New Zealand-based world-first: an HIV positive sperm bank. ‘Amy’ is only ten months old, but already she has changed the world.  She is the first baby to be born after her parents met via the world’s first HIV positive sperm […]

Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence and Sexual Violence Marama Davidson has announced the approval of funding to support national-level family violence and sexual violence prevention initiatives for LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, older people and new migrant communities in Aotearoa. This funding is part of a $2 million commitment from Budget 2019 to understand […]

Wellington Pride Festival has today announced that next year’s Pride celebration will be postponed due to the ongoing community outbreak of COVID-19 in Aotearoa. The 2022 festival will now be planned for September, six months after the Festival was originally scheduled to run in March. Wellington Pride Festival co-chairs Vivian Lyngdoh (Khasi, Bengali) and Tahlia […]

There are also some worrying findings in the Stats NZ survey! One in 20 adults in New Zealand identifies as LGBT+, which accounts to 4.2% of the adult population according to Stats NZ’s annual Household Economic Survey. The survey questioned more than 31,000 Kiwis aged 18 and over and is the first-time data on sexual […]

Three Kiwi queens are rumoured to be among the new cast, but can you guess who?  Earlier this year RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under crowned both a Kiwi queen winner (Kita Mean) and Miss Congeniality (Anita Wigl’it). With Season 2 confirmed will Kiwis have the same success or will the Aussie drag artists take the […]

Comedian, actor, writer and self-professed “all-round funny sort,” Chris Parker has won Celebrity Treasure Island, walking away with $107,500 for his chosen charity, RainbowYOUTH. After weeks of physical, emotional, and mental endurance, armed with a repertoire of pirate phrases, the multi-talented 31-year-old outplayed 20 other Kiwi celebrities to take home the title. Chris went head-to-head […]