Category: News
Jessie Lewthwaite reflects on her lesbian rugby coach and why today’s transgender bathroom debate echoes a longer history of LGBTQ+ suspicion and exclusion. My high school girls’ rugby team was very bad at the sport. We were from a poor school; most of our players had to drive over an hour to get to practice, and […]
Winter Pride is taking a hiatus in 2026, but anyone who already booked flights, accommodation and annual leave still has plenty to pack for. Queenstown’s annual Winter Pride festival may be taking a break this year, but the rainbow community certainly isn’t abandoning the mountains. From Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September, independently produced LGBTQ+ […]
A new Australian-backed programme will support Fiji and neighbouring Pacific nations to strengthen HIV prevention, testing, treatment and community-led care. The 30-month Australian Support for Pacific HIV Action (ASPHA) programme is funded by the Australian Government and will initially focus on Fiji, where new HIV infections have risen sharply. New infections in Fiji increased tenfold […]
From Adele to Bizarre Bras: Leather Lungs discusses his preparation for returning to the World of WearableArt for its new show GLO! Nearly 20 years after the World of WearableArt helped launch his career, Jason Chasland is preparing to return to the Wellington spectacular, this time bringing the full, fabulous force of his alter ego, […]
Britain’s first openly gay defence secretary, Wes Streeting, says he has faced an “unbelievable volume” of homophobic abuse online since taking on the role. Streeting was appointed defence secretary in July as part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first Cabinet, following the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer. Speaking at an Edinburgh Fringe event, Streeting said […]
NSW Police have been directed to reopen a misconduct investigation into controversial drug-dog raids at several Sydney LGBTQIA+ venues after the state’s independent police watchdog rejected an internal finding that officers had done nothing wrong. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, or LECC, has invoked its statutory powers to require NSW Police to investigate allegations surrounding […]
A High Court ruling in England has supported the legal principle behind a Police Scotland policy that allows transgender detainees, in certain circumstances, to request an intimate search by an officer of their lived gender. The decision is significant for trans people because strip searches are inherently intrusive, and being searched by someone of a […]
The Trump administration has finalised a sweeping new rule preventing two major US government health programmes from using federal funds for certain forms of gender-affirming healthcare for young people. The rule affects Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), programmes that together provide health coverage to around 35.5 million children in the United States. […]