Category: News
Two vigils have been planned throughout New Zealand to pay respect to the victims of a horrific terror attack in Orlando which claimed the lives of fifty GLBT people. Community heroes Paul Heard, Karen Ritchie and Josh Laine are currently organizing a candlelight vigil to take place this evening at Ponsonby’s Western Park. The Auckland […]
Presidential candidate Donald Trump has been criticised over self-serving tweets following a shooting at Pulse Gay Club in Florida which left 50 dead. Trump tweeted that he was “right on radical Islamic terrorism” only minutes after a preliminary death toll was released. Many twitter users have condemned this self-congratulatory tweet as selfish and self serving in […]
Authorities confirm identity of killer as his father says ‘this has nothing to do with religion.’ Police have identified the gunman in the mass shooting at a gay club in Florida as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American citizen whose parents are from Afghanistan. Authorities in Orlando said they were investigating the shooting as an act […]
Iconic Swedish pop group and gay icons ABBA have reunited for a surprise performance at Stockholm’s Berns Hotel. The group, who disbanded in 1982, surprised audiences when they appeared on stage together for the first time since their split to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the day on which song writing duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny […]
MKR fan favourite Jordan Bruno has been confirmed as the Australian ambassador for the 5th Annual Gay Ski Week Queenstown, 27 August to 3 September 2016. Mother and son team, Anna and Jordan delighted Australian and New Zealand viewers on the hit show and both will in attendance at the eight-day event. Jordan is a […]
Queen’s honour for services to art, education and LGBTQI rights Being named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to performing arts, education and LGBTQI rights took a while to sink in for AUT senior lecturer Lexie Matheson. “I received the formal letter a while before [Queen’s Birthday weekend] and […]
In a world first, being ‘transgender’ will be declassified as a mental illness in Denmark from January next year in a move Danish parliamentarians say is to put pressure on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to follow suit. Social Democrat spokesman and Danish health committee deputy chairman Flemming Møller Mortensen told Ritzau news agency that trans people in Denmark […]
Local response to the 2015 Out in the Fields international study on homophobia in sports has been immense. From Steve Tew pronouncing that New Zealand is ready for a gay All Black, to commitment from New Zealand Football, New Zealand Cricket, New Zealand Rugby League, Netball New Zealand and Hockey New Zealand have committed to creating necessary […]