Category: News

After performing at Womad last year, Rufus Wainwright is coming back to New Zealand to perform at Auckland Arts Festival. His concert will be in two parts: the first being his opera, Prima Donna: A Symphonic Visual Concert; and the second, recreating Judy Garland’s concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. For the opera, singer Cindy […]

Image: Reuters Even though the Taiwan Pride Festival has occurred for 14 years, this year’s Pride is the most charged, with the legalisation of same-sex marriage a proper possibility. Tens of thousands of people descended upon Taipei for the annual event, with marchers coming from all over Asia. The reason for this being that Taiwan […]

Article and picture: Star Observer A gay couple killed in a tragic accident on a ride at the Gold Coast’s Dreamworld theme park were much-loved family men. Luke Dorsett, 35, and his partner Roozbeh (Roozi) Araghi, 38, were on the Thunder River Rapids with Dorsett’s sister Kate Goodchild, 32, when a conveyor belt malfunction caused the […]

On 21 October, a petition campaigning for trans gender and intersex rights was passed on to Jan Logie, Green Party MP. The petition itself reads: “We call on the Minister of Internal Affairs to enable adults with intersex conditions and trans and other gender diverse adults to change the sex details on any official documentation […]

Founded by Joe Rich and Jordan Eskra, Theta Project aims to bring more LGBT+-focussed parties to Auckland. They are bringing back their Propaganda party, with more bells and whistles than you can count. This year, it will be held at twentyone bar inside SKYCITY, with the layout including two chill-out zones, a smoking deck and […]

Honorary life memberships are being awarded to Jane Bruning, Nigel Dickson, Bruce Kilmister, Anna Reed and Geoff Rua’ine for their services and contributions to those affected by HIV and AIDS. These are given out by the Trust Board of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) and is the highest form of recognition that is bestowed. […]

Proposed by Lib Dem peer Lord Sharkey, men who were convicted of having same-sex intercourse are to have their records wiped clean of the charge. This includes both those deceased (who will receive automatic pardons for sexual acts that are no longer deemed criminal) and living (who will need to apply to the Home Office […]

In the BBC’s newly released ‘Content Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines’, it sets targets for 2017 and 2020 for the make-up of both its workforce and on-screen portrayal. Specifically, it has set an 8 per cent target for 2020 for the LGBT+ community. In terms of the workforce, this target is inclusive of all staff […]