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Bear New Zealand are calling out for contestants to enter the annual Mr Bear NZ competition and represent Aotearoa in the Bear community here and abroad! Gentlemen, start your engines – and may the best Bear win! If you are keen to participate in the Mr Bear New Zealand contest on January 28 at the […]
Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, just released her aptly titled new album Time Flies, which she began recording in 2019. She tells Oliver Hall how pandemic restrictions helped her find greater confidence and reminisces about coming out, travelling the world and meeting her wife. Tell us a bit about your new album Time Flies? I started […]
In what has been described as a historic step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the Asian region, a judge in Taiwan has ruled in favour of a gay man wanting to adopt his husband’s non-biological child. The ruling, which was made on the 25th of December at a family court in Kaohsiung city, will enable […]
Despite preaching that Jesus and conversion therapy can give “freedom from homosexual and transgender lifestyles,” – “Ex-gay” leader Jeffrey McCall has admitted that he still sleeps with men. The self-titled “former homosexual” and “former transgender woman” Jeffrey McCall, who founded the group Freedom March – an organisation that holds marches to oppose bans on conversion […]
The UK government has announced further plans to help individuals obtain official pardons for historical convictions of gay and bisexual men convicted of consensual gay sex prior to homosexual law reforms. Agreeing to amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the UK government aims to help expunge the records of people who were convicted […]
As a guest on the new podcast The Vanity Project, legendary LGBT+ activist Peter Tatchell has discussed forgiving the older generation who might not have got everything right. “An older generation comes to LGBT+ issues from a very different background, so we have to make some allowances – not a free pass – but a […]
The European Court of Justice has ruled that member states are obliged to give an ID card or passport that acknowledges same-sex parents. Rémy Bonny, from the EU-advocacy group Forbidden Colours, calls the case ‘groundbreaking’. “This case is groundbreaking. Over the last year, we have seen politicians from Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland trying to take […]
Discrimination in the housing market, as well as structural issues such as poverty, racism and instability, are placing Takatāpui and LGBTIQ+ people at higher risk of homelessness, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, have found. The research was led by Research Fellow Dr Brodie Fraser from the Department of Public Health, who interviewed people […]