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Historian Gareth Watkins highlights November dates that have had significant impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities. 22 November 1973 Rev. Wilfred Ford, President of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, and Professor Jim Robb met with Prime Minister Norman Kirk to advocate for homosexual law reform. The Society had formed six years earlier and had […]
The NEW Wellington Pride Parade will be part of the Wellington Pride Festival and promises to “bring colour, diversity, celebration, and fabulousness to Wellington!’ A Wellington Pride Parade will officially return as part of the Wellington Pride Festival on Saturday 9 March 2024. The new organisers have called a Community Hui on Monday 13 November […]
A group of powerful synthetic opioids that were first detected in the country just a year ago may have already been linked to several deaths. A notification released by High Alert late Friday is just the latest in a series of warnings about nitazenes, a family of synthetic opioids that can be more potent than fentanyl. […]
URGE Events co-director Alan Granville has announced his departure from the brand, and DJ Everett Wayne has confirmed that he will step up and take the reins alongside co-director Paul Heard. YOUR ex sits down with the three to find out what this evolution means for URGE. Alan: Why is now the right time to […]
St. Ursula’s College, a Catholic school in Sydney, has reversed its anti-LGBTQ+ policy of not allowing same-sex couples to attend its end-of-year formal. This change comes after significant pushback against the school’s previous stance, which prohibited a student, Abbie Frankland, from bringing her girlfriend to the event. Frankland, a senior at the all-girls school, initiated […]
And so, with special votes now counted, National and ACT have lost their overall majority and now seem to be dependent on the good graces (sic) of New Zealand First. What does that mean for us? Firstly, it seems that our allies in the Greens and Te Pati Maori have picked up additional seats, […]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan explicitly stated his disregard for the LGBTQ+ community, aligning with his party’s increasingly conservative rhetoric on LGBTQ+ issues as the country approaches its elections in May 2024. Erdogan, addressing an audience at the AK Party congress in Ankara, pledged to oppose what he terms as “perverse” movements that threaten the traditional […]
Auckland’s Family Bar celebrated Halloween 2023 in spooky style. The ever-popular Karangahape Road superclub celebrated Halloween (gay Christmas) with spooky drag shows and prizes for best-dressed. For over 15 years, Family has been the place to be Karangahape Road and Halloween 2023 was no exception. Family Bar, 270 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Photos | Peter Jennings. […]