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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 […]
A 13-year-old transgender girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson, is challenging West Virginia’s restrictive law against trans students in sports. Supported by her mother, Heather, and legal advocacy from the ACLU, Pepper-Jackson is fighting to overturn the state’s ban, which has been a point of contention since its inception by Governor Jim Justice in 2021. The legislation in […]
Malaysian authorities have mandated concert organisers to implement power cut-off measures following an onstage kiss between Matty Healy, lead singer of the British band The 1975, and his bandmate Ross MacDonald on stage at the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur. The kiss, which was described as a protest against Malaysia’s strict anti-LGBTQ+ laws, resulted […]