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Officials have thrown out calls to have her banned. Article by Jess Jones, StarObserver.com.au Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s eligibility to compete in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games has been confirmed. Hubbard last year qualified to compete, and is set to be the first trans athlete to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games. She had previously been […]
The health department of the Philippines has released figures which show the number of new HIV diagnoses has jumped 3147 percent over from 2007 to 2017. The number of diagnoses in 2007 was 342, ten years later in 2017, this has jumped to 11,103 new cases. Just days before the figures were released, Pink News […]
Auckland Pride Festival Co-Chairs have responded to the two-person protest during Saturday’s Pride Parade in Auckland and say the primary focus is safety for everyone. Cassie Roma and fellow Co-Chair Lexie Matheson say there was a brief two-person protest at the start of the parade but that “Protests are not unexpected, nor necessarily unwelcome, during […]
Wellington Police have arrested and charged a 30-year-old man with the murder of Wellington transgender woman Zena Campbell. Campbell, 21, was found in a car in central Wellington suburb, Aro Valley, on Sunday 11 February. Appearing before Wellington District Court judge Ian Mill on Thursday the 30-year-old man, who has been granted name suppression, was […]
Cameron Kasky, a survivor of last week’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, has slammed Republicans for caring more about cakes at same-sex weddings than school shootings. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Kasky referenced the Supreme Court case of a Colorado cake shop which refused to bake a cake for a gay couple, PinkNews reported. “There’s […]
US freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy has made history, being captured on television kissing his partner before competing at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The moment was screened around the world, with commentators acknowledging Matt Wilkas as Kenworthy’s boyfriend and showing supporters waving rainbow flags, Gay Star News has reported. “To be able to do that, to give him […]
Cyclone Gita has destroyed an LGBT+ centre in Tonga and with it a much needed safe space for the local community. The centre is run by the Tonga Leitis Association, who are now calling for help with the costs to repair the building and provide much-needed supplies to community members after the worst storm in […]
Auckland’s Pride Parade wasn’t without protest this year, with two people protesting access to hormone therapy for transgender youth at the very front of the parade. Walking in front of the Saturday’s parade were two people holding a sign that read “stop giving kids sex hormones, protect lesbian youth”. The pair, who call themselves “feminist […]