Category: New Zealand
Homosexuality will remain illegal in the Cook Islands. LGBT+ Cook Islanders have been dealt a major blow, with the self-governing island nation deciding against legalising homosexuality. A report on a proposed bill to legalise homosexuality in the pacific nation was deferred for three months after Cook Islands’ Parliamentary select committee declined to consider the matter […]
TVNZ’s Vote compass reveals a massive majority of New Zealanders want an end to the dangerous practice. Just under three-quarters of Kiwis want an end to gay conversion therapy. Over 260,000 people have used TVNZ’s Vote Compass to see where they fit in on the political spectrum. On the issue of gay conversion therapy, 72% […]
A former trainee nurse has spoken of suffering through 12 years of electroshock therapy and a concoction of drugs, for being LGBT+. Joan Bellingham, now 68, has spoken at a Royal Commission in New Zealand about her experience during the 1970’s when she first started training as a nurse at the Burwood Hospital in Christchurch. […]
The iPrEP clinic is a New Zealand first and is modelled on a program in New York. Body Positive is now offering “immediate access” to PrEP for those who need it quickly. In a New Zealand first, the peer support organisation has started an iPrEP clinic that works in conjunction with its drop-in clinic to […]
ACT Party Leader David Seymour to Express about freedom of speech, the End of Life Choice referendum and why he hosted the Feminism 2020 event for trans-exclusionary group Speak Up For Women at parliament, despite having been a member of the cross-party Parliamentary Rainbow Network and regularly attending Pride parades. At 37 you are one […]
Adoption law reform would be a significant win for many same-sex couples. Adoption law reform will be on the table if Labour is re-elected and National may support change also. Justice Minister Andrew Little has indicated that he wants to change the 1955 Adoption Act, which he calls a “highly moralistic piece of legislation”. Currently, […]
Some of the school’s teenagers have called for a boycott of the Pride week. Wellington’s Scott’s College Pride Week celebrating the LGBT community has been overshadowed by a number of homophobic social media posts that have now been made public. Newshub reports that one Scots College student whose back was unwittingly covered in pride stickers […]
The new guidelines are being called the “first meaningful change” since 2002. Sex education in New Zealand is set for a major overhaul, with schools across the country being told they must allow students the option of choosing their own gender identities and names. “Sexuality education” is out, to be replaced by “relationships and sexuality […]