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Auckland University played host to last night’s Equal Justice Project symposium ‘The Rights of Transgender People in Prisons.’ The library basement lecture theatre was around half full, with a range of diverse attendees’ eager to hear the opinions of the three panelists; Kelly Ellis, Lexie Matheson, and Ti Lamusse. The panel begun introducing themselves and explaining […]
Italy has made a leap forward in gay rights this week with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s confidence vote on a bill which grants legal rights to gay couples in the country. After years of lobbying against the oppression of the Catholic Church, the Italian government will now allow same sex couples to share a surname […]
Queer Manager Jackie Jones accepted the award for Awanui Home Specialist Dementia care in South Auckland who have become the first recipients of Affinity Service’s Silver Rainbow seal. The Silver Rainbow seal recognizes the facilities commitment to providing a sale, inclusive environment to provide for residents who identify as GLBTI. Awanui have worked alongside Silver […]
Three high school students have developed a smart phone application which will allow gender diverse people to locate gender neutral bathrooms in their area. Lydia Watson, Joanna Li and Piper Whitehead, students at Auckland’s Diocesan School for Girls and creators of new gender neutral bathroom finding application, ‘Loocation’, say “It’s something quite important. Everyone in society should have a right […]
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has compared North Carolina’s HB2 law with the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the formerly segregated Southern states. Lynch is a Greensboro native and the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. She is a social advocate who has often played important roles in representing and fighting for minority groups. In […]
Barrister and transgender rights advocate Kelly Ellis will feature on a panel held tomorrow at Auckland University focusing on possible solutions for the current crisis taking place in New Zealand prisons. Following the show stopping Pride parade protest earlier this year by protest group No Pride in Prisons which meant to highlight the treatment of […]
Hanscom Smith has married his Chinese male partner Lyu Yingzong (Eric Lu) in a ceremony in San Francisco, California. One of the USA’s most senior diplomats and Consul General in Shanghai has married his long-term partner during his holiday leave in the US. Hanscom Smith announced the marriage on the US Consul General Weibo account, saying […]
No Pride in Prisons: A discussion around the Auckland Pride Parade is the latest move taken by No Pride in Prisons, a group advocating for the rights of trans prisoners through protest. This controversial group was criticised by some sections of the queer community after staging a protest during the 2016 Pride Parade. ” No […]