Category: News
Hundreds of LGBT Tanzanians are now in hiding amidst anti-gay crackdown. Hundreds of LGBT activists in Tanzania have gone into hiding after a senior official announced a task force aiming to identify and punish gay people in the nation’s largest city, Dar es Salaam The Guardian reports. Dar es Salaam’s administrative head Paul Makonda says […]
Labour MP Marja Lubeck has put a bill in the ballot to ban gay conversion therapy. The Member’s Bill was spurred after a petition by campaigners asking for a ban of conversion therapy gathered about 20,000 signatures. Lubeck says the practice of gay conversion therapy a “flawed abhorrent practice that has no place in our country.” The Labour […]
A youth contingent of delegates at the Vatican has made it clear that they want the Catholic church to preach more inclusive messages for LGBTI Catholics. Despite the Roman Catholic Church long having a complicated and murky history with the LGBTI community, young Catholics are now pushing for change and leading the charge for inclusivity. The call […]
The Trump Administration has announced plans to redefine “sex” so that transgender people are excluded from federal discrimination protection. First reported by the New York Times, the move is being described as the administration’s “most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.” The proposed […]
Baker, aka Buffy, died on Labour day from a heart attack. Taking to Facebook to announce the news, Baker’s performance partner and husband Jonathan ‘Bimbo’ Smith paid tribute to Baker saying “he was caring, loving, passionate, generous and so giving of his time to me and others.” Labour weekend marked the couple’s 24 year anniversary. […]
Scientists from Boston University have come up with a self-lubricating condom that can withstand “up to 1000 thrusts!” Boston University scientists have developed a compound that sticks to the latex of a condom, and that also holds a thin layer of water. The result is a condom that stays dry until it is touched with […]
Once a renowned men’s bar on Auckland’s K road, Urge’s notorious party brand is producing sexy nights out all over the country. Oliver Hall caught up owners Alan Granville and Paul Heard to reminisce about the little bar that could. Urge bar opened at 490 K road in November 1997, run by Larry Quickenden with […]
Differences between gay and non-gay people are not about sex according to School of Social Work Professor Mark Henrickson, who will propose in a lecture next month that it is more about the ways we understand the world and decide what is true. The lecture, to be held on the Auckland campus on November 5, […]