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Levi Joule chats with Auckland Rainbow Community Church board member Peter Lineham about the church’s Christmas message to the GLBT community and the role of religion in 2015. “We love to celebrate Christmas at the Auckland Rainbow Community Church,” Peter Lineham exclaims excitedly. Peter says the GLBT inclusive church has focused on “a sense of […]
Bosnia’s gay community are hoping the country’s bid to be a part of the European Union will help bring an end to anti GLBT violence. Bosnia’s EU bid has brought the nation’s human rights record under greater scrutiny, with the European Commission releasing reform guidelines in November, which included a warning that the country’s approach to GLBT […]
From New Delhi to New York, the planet has marked World AIDS day. New York marked the occasion by lighting up the Empire State Building in red, thousands gathered in New Delhi for a candlelight memorial, while hundreds of school children gathered around a huge red ribbon made from scarves in Dexing City in China’s Jiangxi […]
Smartphone technology has increased the opportunities for casual sex and led to a spike in HIV infections among teenagers in Asia, a new United Nations released on World AIDS day reveals, The epidemic is fastest growing amongst men who have sex with men. Other groups include those who are sexually exploited by or engaged in […]
A majority of Japanese support the introduction of same sex marriage according to a new poll. Fifty-one percent of people polled by researchers from universities and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research back same sex marriage, the Asahi newspaper reported. Support for same-sex marriage was much higher in younger age groups, with […]
Pope Francis has declined to condemn Uganda’s new anti gay law during his visit. On the eve of Francis’s arrival, the Ugandan parliament passed a bill giving authorities sweeping powers to inspect and dissolve NGOs they suspect of “promoting homosexuality” in a move that could lead to the imprisonment of activists. Critics have said the […]
The search for the next Mr. Gay New Zealand will begin next month as details surrounding the 2016 competition were released today. The 2016 competition winner will represent New Zealand at the 2016 Mr. Gay World Competition in Malta next April. In launching the search for his successor, Mr. Gay New Zealand 2015 Matt Fistonich […]
Gay rights activists have marched in the Indian capital calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Hundreds of gay rights activists danced to drum beats and held colorful balloons as they marched in a parade in New Delhi on Sunday, celebrating what they call the diversity of gender and sexuality the Associated Press reports. Organisers said […]