Category: News
The New Zealand National (NZNBF Version) Light Heavyweight title has been won by Brazilian-born Geovana Peres. Peres is breaking multiple barriers, being both the first LGBT+ person and first Brazilian to win a NZ Professional Boxing Title. After eight rounds fighting Nailini Helu, and a unanimous decision from all three judges, she defeated Helu, scoring […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com Police officer Xavier Jugelé, who was killed in last week’s attack on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, has been mourned as a champion of the LGBT+ community. Jugelé, 37, was openly gay and in a civil union with his partner. He was an active member of Flag, a French association […]
Nominations open for Rainbow Wellington Board Nominations for the Rainbow Wellington Board are now open ahead of their AGM (Annual General Meeting) in May. The non-profit organisation, previously operating under the name GAP, organises social activities in the Greater Wellington region and represents the Human Rights interests of queer and gender diverse people. Rainbow Wellington […]
Tristan Reginato, a queer New York filmmaker, has debut his short-film, The Cost of Change. In the film, he touches on the familiar concept that many LGBT+ people have thought about throughout their coming out process – if you could change your sexuality, would you? The fictional film follows Yuri as he comes to terms […]
It’s no secret that us humans are completely and utterly fascinated with the human body – when it’s naked, that is. Whether it was Michelangelo’s statue of David or Boticelli’s Venus, there was nudity involved and we liked it. In celebration of the naked human body, Pornhub have just announced a new app called TrickPics, […]
53 young men have been arrested following the celebration of a same-sex wedding that they attended. They were charged with “belonging to a gang of unlawful society”. Mannir Nasir, prosecuting officer, told a court on Wednesday 19 April that the 53 young men were arrested on Saturday 15 April in the city of Zaria. Nigerian […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com A new study has found that LGBTI people aged over 50 who are married are healthier and happier than those who are single. The world-first study by the University of Washington found that older people had better physical and mental health, social support and financial resources than their single […]
Image: Hagen Hopkins Last month, we wrote about ex-Labour MP and former Carterton mayor Georgina Beyer’s scheduled kidney transplant, which was supposed to take place in late March. However, the surgery was postponed at the last minute, a scenario that left her “devastated” as she had built herself up it, and “suddenly, it was whipped away”. But earlier […]