In court, one of the pair pleaded ‘not guilty’ which sends the case to a jury trial. Two men accused of torching Tauranga’s Rainbow Youth building have appeared in court facing a joint charge of arson. Alexander James Burgess, 33, and Zechariah Vincent Phillips, 29 appeared in the Tauranga District Court today accused of deliberately […]
Start your engines Aotearoa, RuPaul’s new queens include NZ-based Spankie Jackzon and Yuri Guaii, plus NZ-born Kween Kong and Aubrey Haive. 10 queens from across Australia and New Zealand with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent have been selected to compete for the glory, title, and bragging rights of being crowned the queen of […]
An openly gay former wrestler running for office in Kansas City says he refuses to back down and will continue his campaign despite homophobic slurs being tagged on his campaign posters. Justice Horn – an openly gay former NCAA wrestler turned Kansas City politician, is running for a seat on the Jackson County Legislature. With […]
Reports out of Iran have confirmed that the middle-eastern country is continuing to execute its citizens for being gay. According to The Human Rights Activists News Agency, the latest act of anti-LGBTQ+ brutality occurred on the 29th of June at Rajai Shahr Prison, where a gay man named Iman Safari-rad was executed under a “sodomy” […]
The investigation follows the school asking parents to deny the existence of same-sex marriage and a transgender student being told ‘God Doesn’t Make Mistakes.’ A Tauranga school is being investigated after a transgender student attempted suicide. The school refused to call the student by their preferred pronouns or name. When the student protested, they were […]
The decision was decided by 71% of the world’s 152-member federation. Nearly all Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in the female competition after a historic vote at the world championships in Budapest. The world swimming governing body decided by 71% to create a new category for transgender athletes. There is one […]
A small group of Anti-LGBTQ+ protesters that attempted to hijack Glasgow’s Pride parade were met with firm resistance from parade attendees at Scotland’s largest Pride celebration. The parade, which took place on Saturday the 25th of June, saw thousands turn out to support the LGBTQ+ community. However, the first Pride parade in Glasgow in 3-years […]
President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision on abortion has set the US on an “extreme and dangerous path” Fears are growing in the United States for the legal status of same-sex relationships and marriage following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade which ended the right for all American women to legally […]