Category: News
After a near 30 year battle, the Supreme Court has cleared Peter Ellis. While he may not have been alive to see it, the Supreme Court has today quashed Peter Ellis’ child abusive convictions. The court found the convictions were a, “substantial miscarriage of justice.” Ellis was working as a childcare worker at the Christchurch Civic Creche […]
Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) has announced two cases of community transmission of Monkeypox in New Zealand. The cases are now self-isolating and contact tracing has begun, a Te What Ora spokesperson said. According to Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, three key points to remember are: 1 | MONKEYPOX CAN AFFECT ANYONE – BUT GAY AND […]
Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall talks to express about the Government’s new plan to end HIV transmissions in NZ by 2032. Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall is ambitious. Despite the commentary by pundits on her quick political ascent (the newly elected Verrall went straight into Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s cabinet after the 2020 election) […]
Social media giant TikTok has been fined in Russia after refusing to delete what sensors describe as “LGBT propaganda.” Russian authorities issued the fine on Tuesday, the 4th of October, for violating Russia’s ‘gay propaganda laws’ prohibiting the promotion of LGBTQ+ content to under-18s. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was accused of “promoting non-traditional values, LGBT, […]
Kim Petras’ collaboration with Sam Smith – Unholy – has also gone to Number 1 in the UK, Ireland, Greece, Canada, Australia and New Zealand! German-born, America-based popstar Kim Petras has made ‘herstory’, thanks to her latest collaboration with Sam Smith ‘Unholy’. The two popstars co-wrote the track that’s lyrics revolve around a man having […]
The man at the centre of a gruesome murder plot has pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of a gay teen he met through Grindr with the intention of murdering and dismembering his body. 21-year-old Chance Seneca from Lafayette, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping in relation to an incident in June 2020. According […]
Historian Gareth Watkins examines October dates, significant for highlighting change and progression for our rainbow communities in Aotearoa. 11 October 1938 Prolific author William Taylor was born on this day in Lower Hutt. He left school at the age of sixteen, and after working in a bank for some time trained as a teacher. Taylor’s […]
Political and religious leaders in Zambia are being accused of fueling growing anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments across the nation, leaving many in the rainbow community fearful. Just weeks after Zambia’s Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda, reinforced the government’s commitment to upholding the country’s laws criminalising homosexuality, another Minister has also reaffirmed his condemnation of the […]