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The Justice Committee’s call for submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill has closed, with over 100,000 written submissions received from members of the public. This represents the highest ever number of submissions received on a bill in New Zealand. For the committee’s initial hearings on the bill, it has formed two subcommittees which […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming back Down Under for Season Two. Click here to find out how to apply to be a contestant on the show! Start your engines Aotearoa, your queen is back and looking to add to the royal family. The Emmy Award-winning series RuPaul’s Drag Race is returning Down Under for a second season, […]
Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at significant September dates that impacted Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities. 28 September 1921 This year marks the centenary of the birth of Bruce Mason – one of New Zealand’s most significant playwrights. Mason wrote over thirty plays, with The Pohutukawa Tree and End of the Golden Weather being two […]
Winter Pride organiser says his ‘patron’s access’ model had detailed terms and conditions that made it ‘clear’ tickets were not refundable, even if the festival was cancelled. Winter Pride’s Director is defending his policy to refund tickets only partially for this year’s cancelled festival in the wake of confusion amongst ticket holders, some of whom […]
In a horrific attack, a group of eight used a knife to carve the homophobic slur “faggot” onto a victim’s backside in Madrid, Spain. The attack, which occurred just two months after the horrific killing of Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old gay man, in A Coruña, Spain, a 20-year-old has found himself the victim of another hate […]
Lil Nas X says his “life has come full circle” after he returned to work for Taco Bell – but this time as the fast-food chain’s “chief impact officer.” First reported by Billboard Lil Nas X was made Taco Bell’s honorary chief impact officer will “play out with a menu of activities, collaborations, and a company-wide […]
World Number Two tennis player, Russian Daniil Medvedev, has praised the U.S Open for developing a ‘Pride Day‘ during the tournament and said if a male player did decide to come out on tour then “all the players would be happy for the guy if he does.” 25-year-old Medvedev, was speaking to the media after […]
Following meeting with US President Joe Biden, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a promise to fight for the rights of his LGBTQ+ citizens. Ukraine, which has been slow at implementing LGBTQ+ rights leaving the nation’s rainbow community facing widespread discrimination including, no legal recognition of same-sex relationships and discrimination in the workplace with no […]