Category: New Zealand

After 28 seasons the Power Rangers series is being transformed by welcoming its first character officially belonging to the LGBTQ+ community. Filmed right here in Auckland New Zealand, and now in its 28th season, fans learn that the young Izzy – better known as the Green Ranger and played by Tessa Rao – is queer, […]

The Justice Committee’s call for submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill has closed, with over 100,000 written submissions received from members of the public. This represents the highest ever number of submissions received on a bill in New Zealand. For the committee’s initial hearings on the bill, it has formed two subcommittees which […]

RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming back Down Under for Season Two. Click here to find out how to apply to be a contestant on the show! Start your engines Aotearoa, your queen is back and looking to add to the royal family. The Emmy Award-winning series RuPaul’s Drag Race is returning Down Under for a second season, […]

Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at significant September dates that impacted Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities. 28 September 1921 This year marks the centenary of the birth of Bruce Mason – one of New Zealand’s most significant playwrights. Mason wrote over thirty plays, with The Pohutukawa Tree and End of the Golden Weather being two […]

Winter Pride organiser says his ‘patron’s access’ model had detailed terms and conditions that made it ‘clear’ tickets were not refundable, even if the festival was cancelled. Winter Pride’s Director is defending his policy to refund tickets only partially for this year’s cancelled festival in the wake of confusion amongst ticket holders, some of whom […]

Following the government’s announcement to ban conversion therapy in New Zealand, The Justice Committee is seeking submissions from members of the public, who are invited to make their own submissions on the proposed legislation. The Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill would make it an offence to perform conversion practices on an individual under the age […]

Speaking to express, National’s former deputy leader says she hopes the party will support a ban on “sick and evil” conversion therapy practices. The National Party’s former deputy leader Nikki Kaye is urging the party’s current crop of MPs to support the Labour government’s ban on conversion therapy. The entire National caucus voted against a […]

The prominent businessman will enjoy freedom as he awaits his appeal. A prominent and wealthy businessman will be enjoying the comforts of his own home while awaiting an appeal on his multiple convictions of sexual assault and perverting the course of justice. In May, the man was handed a prison sentence of over two years. […]