Category: New Zealand
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 […]
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 […]