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Auckland Town Hall will be lit up with rainbow colours on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 of July in celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand. The bill was introduced to Parliament in 1986 by former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde after bitter public and political debate and, once […]
The 28 EU member states have reached a consensus on LGBT rights for the first time in European history. The Council of the European Union reached consensus on Friday on a Netherlands-backed agreement concerning women’s rights, gender equality and the protection of GLBT people across the EU. For the first time ever, the 28 member states agreed at […]
Teargas and rubber pellets have been used by police in Turkey to disperse a GLBT march in Istanbul which had been banned after ultranationalists said “degenerates” could not demonstrate. Riot police cordoned off Taksim Square to prevent the Trans Pride rally taking place during Ramadan. Authorities had earlier panned transgender and gay pride marches during during […]
Orlando Regional Medical Center doctors have said that the number of fatalities as a result of the brutal massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Florida could still rise. The current number of deceased current sits at 49, however hospital officials report that six of the injured people are still critically ill. Another five victims of the […]
Winston Peters has disgruntled a nation after he used his condolence speech to the victims of the Orlando massacre to call for stricter immigration controls in New Zealand. In this speech, Peters, who has long since be calling for a drastic reduction in New Zealand immigration, was quick to point out that the shoot Omar Mateen’s parents […]
A candle light vigil will be held in Dunedin tomorrow to pay respect to the victims of the horrific hate crime which took place at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. The vigil will be a show of solidarity for the victims and will create a space in which members of the GLBT community can come together […]
Four regulars of the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse have come forward to say that they had seen Omar Mateen at the club before the night of the shooting which claimed forty nine lives. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk […]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has weighed in on the recent mass shooting in Florida which claimed the lives of forty nine GLBT people and allies. In an interview with RNZ News, Mr Key said that there is not yet enough information available to deduce whether or not the horrific attack in Pulse Nightclub in Orlando […]