Category: News
For the first time in three years, proudly Māori and lesbian artist Theia is at home in Aotearoa for New Zealand Music Month. She has just returned from New York after speaking at the United Nations, and is juggling the realities of being an independent musician with side hustles, tours and study. Despite the weight on her shoulders, this wahine has […]
A new study has pushed back on the long-running claim that most transgender children eventually stop identifying as trans, concluding that the evidence often used to support that idea is far weaker and far more inconsistently interpreted than its supporters suggest. The research, titled Desistance: A multimethod review of the literature on gender identity variability […]
A man has been arrested after a major fire destroyed Pink Punters, one of the UK’s best-known LGBTQIA+ nightclubs. Emergency services were called to the Milton Keynes venue at about 2am on 26 April after reports of a serious blaze. Staff and patrons were evacuated from the building, along with nearby residents, as the fire […]
The mother of alleged double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon has been charged with attempting to interfere in the high-profile criminal case over the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. NSW Police say Coleen Lamarre, 63, was arrested in Balmain in Sydney’s inner west on Wednesday morning and charged with intending to pervert the course of […]
Texas Tech University System has introduced a sweeping new policy targeting the teaching and study of LGBTQ+ topics across its campuses, prompting alarm from students and faculty over academic freedom, viewpoint discrimination and the future of gender-related study. The move was ordered by Chancellor Brandon Creighton in a memo issued on 9 April, directing the […]
The Trump administration has proposed a sweeping rollback of LGBTQ+ housing protections in the United States, including changes that could force trans women into men’s shelters and strip away federal safeguards against discrimination based on gender identity. The proposal comes from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and would rescind key parts of […]
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says she ended a pre-Budget drinks event in her Beehive office last year after hearing offensive language, amid allegations that a homophobic slur was used during an exchange between senior political journalists. The incident is alleged to have involved TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman and Stuff journalist Lloyd Burr during a […]
Pope Leo XIV has indicated that he will maintain the Catholic Church’s current position on LGBTQ+ issues, reaffirming support for informal blessings for same-sex couples while ruling out any move towards formal recognition. The remarks were made at a press conference on 23 April, after an 11-day tour of Africa. In his comments, Leo made […]