Category: News
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 […]
Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. On top of being the first editor of a GLBT magazine in the sexually conservative country, Mannan was also a top gay rights activist and worked at the US development agency USAid. He launched Roopbaan in 2014 in an […]
North Carolina Democrats have filed a bill with aims to reverse the state’s anti-GLBT law, HB2. This follows a string of boycotts and lost investment ventures in the state in response to Governor McCrory refusing to veto the damaging bill which encourages discrimination against GLBT people. House Bill 946, sponsored by Darren Jackson, Graig Meyer, Susi Hamilton, and […]
Youtube sensation and self named Liberal Redneck has perfectly explained gender neutral bathroom panic in a colourful new video. Otherwise known as Traw Crowder, he explains why the conservative defence of protecting children is ridiculous and defends trans people’s right to use bathrooms aligning when the gender they identify as. The video was posted in […]