Category: New Zealand

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 […]

Almost a year to the day since his death, the Supreme Court has ruled that Peter Ellis’s appeal against his sexual offending convictions will be heard. The New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled Peter Ellis’s appeal against his historic convictions will proceed, despite his death in 2019. The case has been described as the nation’s […]

Registrations open tomorrow! For the first time in the festival’s nine-year run, Auckland Pride will be expanded out to be a near month-long celebration.  Auckland Pride Festival 2021 will run from February 3-28.  The festival says the expansion is a “testament to the growth of Aotearoa’s largest pride festival” but hints that there may be a different […]

A new petition aiming to cancel the efforts being made by Queenstown’s Mount Hutt Ski Field in honouring the “legacy” of a former decorated Nazi officer has been launched by concerned Kiwis. Described as a Mount Hutt ski “pioneer” and “father of the mountain,” in a TVNZ 1 feature, Willi Huber was in fact also […]

It is still illegal to be gay in the Cook Islands in 2020. As the discussion of an eventual travel bubble between the Cook Islands and New Zealand increases, same-sex attracted tourists and human rights advocates express concerns that homosexuality in the self-governing island nation is still illegal. A new petition has been launched to […]

InsideOUT Kōaro have launched Schools Pride Week – the first-ever nationwide Pride Week campaign based in schools, running August 24-28, 2020. A celebratory week of events and activities to help foster a sense of belonging for rainbow young people within their schools and communities, the initiative welcomes schools, queer straight alliances, rainbow diversity groups, students, and staff across the […]

Auckland has been shortlisted to become the host of the 2026 Gay Games along with seven other cities. The Federation of Gay Games (FGG) recently announced the shortlist with bidding cities expected to formally submit bid documents in November this year with a decision to be made on the host city in February 2022. The Gay Games […]