Category: New Zealand

Bear New Zealand are calling out for contestants to enter the annual Mr Bear NZ competition and represent Aotearoa in the Bear community here and abroad! Gentlemen, start your engines – and may the best Bear win! If you are keen to participate in the Mr Bear New Zealand contest on January 28 at the […]

Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, just released her aptly titled new album Time Flies, which she began recording in 2019. She tells Oliver Hall how pandemic restrictions helped her find greater confidence and reminisces about coming out, travelling the world and meeting her wife. Tell us a bit about your new album Time Flies? I started […]

Discrimination in the housing market, as well as structural issues such as poverty, racism and instability, are placing Takatāpui and LGBTIQ+ people at higher risk of homelessness, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, have found. The research was led by Research Fellow Dr Brodie Fraser from the Department of Public Health, who interviewed people […]

A new LGBTTQIA+ mural by artist Pounamu Wharekawa (Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) is brightening up Centre Place Shopping Centre in Hamilton’s city centre. The mural, titled ‘A Joyful Meeting’, is a celebration of and for rainbow communities in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, and is a joint project by Centre Place and Wintec’s Āniwaniwa Alliance.   Wharekawa, who is […]

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 […]