Category: News

Mar 29
ISIS Responsible For Stoning Gay Youth To Death

ISIS have been found responsible for the death of a young man, having thrown him off a rooftop and hitting him with rocks – all because they found out he was gay. The mob released pictures of the young mans very-public execution which took place in Mosul, carried out in the name of Allah and […]

Mar 29
“Whatever, Just Please Wash Your Hands.”

The Regent Theatre in Dunedin has recently installed signs on two of its unisex-accessible toilets, but they aren’t quite what you would have imagined… The new sign shows four figures – a female, male, gender non-specific, and someone with a disability – across the top, and then a new addition of a green alien lying below […]

Mar 29
Filitonga Found Guilty For Infecting Partner With HIV

Following on from our previous article, 37 year-old Mikio Filitonga has been found guilty of infecting his boyfriend with HIV. He was on trial at Auckland District Court earlier in the month on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard and committing a criminal nuisance by doing an unlawful act. The Crown stated […]

Mar 29
Grindr Used To Meet Minors

A Hastings man who was accused a while ago for using Grindr to send messages to another person, convincing them to meet with underage boys and use them for sex, can finally be named. 24 year-old Michael John Kight, appeared in the Wellington District Court for a number of charges against him, including convincing a […]

Mar 24
Review: Adele Proves She is Someone Like Us

There’s no question that Adele’s New Zealand debut was a special event. It’s not every day that more than 45,000 Kiwis rush to Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on a Thursday night. But then again, last night was anything but ordinary, as multi-Grammy-award winner Adele made sure that we were treated to a show that, while staged in […]

Mar 23
Germany Compensates Gay Men

Germany’s cabinet has just approved a bill stating that all convicted gay men who were prosecuted after World War 2 will have their convictions overturned. Any gay man that was convicted between 1949 – 1969 who are still alive can expect to receive financial compensation for any suffering that they endured under the legislation. This […]

Mar 23
Wellington Pride Throws Very First Youth Ball

Wellington Pride threw their first youth ball on March 18, which saw around 200 youths attend, ready to dance their rainbow socks off! Youth leader, Bella Simpson, organised the event and said people had come from as far as Otaki and the Wairarapa to attend the event. The theme of the ball was ‘Fantasy Forest’ […]

Mar 22
HIV Positive Man Lies To Partner, Passes on HIV

A gay man lied to his partner about his positive HIV status, having unprotected sex with him and leaving him to find out through ‘sero-converting’, part of the process that happens when HIV establishes itself in your body. The evidence was given to the Auckland District Court as Mikio Filitonga was charged for causing ‘grievous […]