Category: News
Aroha Mardi Gras returns to Auckland’s iconic Karangahape Road as part of Open Streets Auckland on Sunday 1 May as legendary performer, Mika, evokes the spirit of his widely celebrated 2011 Aroha Mardi Gras Rugby World Cup extravaganza which included Rena Owen, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Kiri Nathan Fashion and a cast of 760 performers. This year’s performance “is going to be vibrant and colourful; expect more colour than any Disney Cartoon!” Aroha Mardi Gras […]
According to the Auckland Regional Sexual Health Service, Approximately 80% more cases of syphilis were reported in 2015 compared to the previous year. This is in part due to the enhanced syphilis surveillance program in New Zealand sexual health clinics. The Health service says that a significant number of these infections reported are gay and bisexual men. […]
The creator of comedic queer web series Two Naked Gay Guys, or 2NGG, has successfully crowdfunded $8982 since March, 2016. This is enough funding to provide two additional episodes of the web series, each budgeted to cost around $4000 each. However, the funding is not expected to stop there. Creator Conan McKegg has promised an eclectic range […]
Having control over your health and wellbeing is a vital part of living in the queer community. Gay and bisexual men are the highest proportioned group who are living with HIV related illnesses in New Zealand and many of these people may have the disease and are unaware of it. Testing is one of the […]
The Auckland suburb of Mt Albert has been the site of the violent robberies of three Grindr users. Police believe that these attacks were all done by the same individual who lured his victims using the gay hook up app. It is possible that there have also been other unreported attacks says Detective Constable Laura Hadwen, who […]
An affiliate of terrorist group Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist in Bangladesh. In the latest of many horrific killings, Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. His friend Mahbub Tony who was also a GLBT activist was also killed. It has now […]
Isle of Man has passed same sex marriage leaving Northern Ireland the only place in the Republic of Ireland without marriage equality. Isle of Man was the last place in the Republic of Ireland to legalise homosexuality, happening as late as 1992 and as a crown dependency, remains autonomous from UK rule. The chief minister of the […]
Leonard Nattrass-Berquist and Beauen Wallace-Loretz have been found guilty of the murder of Ihaia Gillman Harris. The two men who were under eighteen at the time of the murder pleaded not guilty and claimed self defence in the case which saw them attack Gillman Harris in at Ascot Epsom Motel in December 2014. During court proceedings, the two […]