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The announcement comes just days after Pride’s tumultuous AGM. Auckland Chair Cassie Roma has quit the Auckland Pride board just days after the organisation’s annual general meeting. In an email to Auckland Pride members, Roma announced her departure saying “it is with a heavy heart that I have decided that my time with Auckland Pride […]
Alaska Airlines has apologised after kicking a gay couple out of their seats so that a straight couple could sit together and has claimed that it didn’t intend to discriminate. The airline’s public apology followed an upset David Cooley, who claimed that he and his partner were told that they would be unable to sit […]
Young bisexual Australians may find it far more difficult to come out of the closet when compared to their gay and lesbian counterparts according to a new Australian survey. The survey which was titled the What’s Up In Your World poll was conducted by the Radio station Triple J, and took a look at 11,000 people aged 18 to […]
Playwright Sam Brooks’ new production Burn Her open tonight! Burn Her is set on election night, where a crisis forces an idealistic party leader to decide between her morals and her ambitions to govern. express asks Brooks if protagonist Aria was inspired by Jacinda. “I actually wrote the play two years ago—well before a Labour government […]
A new study out of France has indicated that PrEP could be used as an on-demand “before and after” sex pill, instead of a daily medication as it is currently being used. The results from the ongoing Prevenir observational study, have provided further evidence that so-called on-demand PrEP may be an effective strategy for preventing […]
“The feeling behind why a man is gay is because, in a lot of ways like other men that have had harder upbringings, they’ve fallen into a place where they haven’t been loved” the ‘man up’ organiser claims. Brain Tamaki drew a large crowd in Wanganui for his ‘man up’ Hui, but not all were […]
The small Mid-Atlantic US state of Delaware has joined the likes of New York, Hawaii, and Rhode Island in banning the dangerous and controversial practice known as “conversion therapy.” The new law known as SB 65 was officially signed into law by the states Democratic Governor, John Carney, making Delaware the 15th state to ban the practice of conversion […]
The veteran entertainer has been told to “shut and retire,” after making the transphobic comments. Barry Humphries is under fire after making a number of controversial comments about the Transgender community to UK publication Spectator. Speaking to the conservative publication on the topic of his famous Dame Edna character, Humphries, called “transgenderism” a “fashion.” “How […]