Category: News
With an ‘All We Need Is Love’ theme the Parade will return in February to paint Ponsonby Road rainbow! The Auckland Rainbow Parade will return to bring diversity, unity, respect, celebration, and inclusion on Saturday 15 February 2025 – basking in the glow of Valentine’s Day (14 Feb). Show your support for marginalised communities by […]
Pride Pledge celebrated their 6th birthday last week with the launch of Pride Pledge Certified. More than 200 people attended the Auckland, Wellington and online launches. Pride Pledge certification is a way for supporting organisations to be accredited as being workplaces, inclusive of Rainbow people, that are actively engaged in an ongoing journey of improvement. […]
The Methodist Church in Ireland has issued an apology for its failures in providing pastoral support and care to the LGBTQ+ community and their families; however decided to uphold its ban on same-sex marriage. The church, which also condemned all forms of homophobia within both the church and the broader community, decided that marriage would […]
A petition titled “We are against open and hidden LGBT propaganda in the Republic of Kazakhstan!” has garnered the required number of signatures for official consideration. According to reports from El.kz, the petition, which was published on the official portal “E-Petition.kz,” has now been accepted for review under Article 90-4 of the Administrative Procedure Code […]
A man is reportedly being detained in a psychiatric institution by local authorities after attempting to establish Pakistan’s first gay club. The individual, whose name has not been disclosed, was reportedly detained and placed in a psychiatric hospital after applying to create a business in Abbottabad. The application, filed to the deputy commissioner of the […]
The Conservative Party in the UK has pledged to modify the nation’s 2010 Equality Act to facilitate the exclusion of trans people from single-sex spaces despite the Act already including provisions for such exclusions. In February 2023, Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which has recently faced criticism […]
Body Positive’s Mark Fisher explains the ins and outs of this game-changing new syphilis prevention. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are over 100 times more likely to catch syphilis than our straight counterparts, but did you know there is a cheap treatment already on the market that makes you 80% less likely to […]
Bailey Anne Kennedy has become the first transgender woman to hold the title of Miss Maryland USA. On Saturday, June 1, 31-year-old Kennedy made history when she was crowned at the end of the pageant in Bethesda, Maryland. According to local outlet DC News Now, she is also the first Asian American and military wife […]