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American GLBT rights activist Dan Savage will deliver the keynote speech at the Science Teller Festival in Dunedin. 2015’s festival, run by the University of Otago has a ‘Sex and Science’ theme and will be headlined by controversial GLBT rights activist Dan Savage who the festival describe as the “world’s most popular sex advice columnist”. […]
New research shows only half of those engaging in unprotected sex in New Zealand are getting tested for HIV, promoting calls for the funding of more rapid testing services. Only half (52.1%) of gay and bisexual men (GBM) engaging in condomless anal intercourse with casual partners had tested for HIV in the past year, according […]
Shocking new images have emerged of Islamic State brutally executing two men they accuse of being gay. Islamic State (ISIS) militants and their supporters stoned to death two men accused of being gay in Aleppo, Syria. The graphic images published on terrormonitor.org show a crowd, including children, throwing rocks at two bound and blindfolded men […]
The Law and Justice Party, which is staunchly opposed to GLBT rights, has won a decisive victory in the Polish general election. The ruling centre right Civic Platform party lost to its right wing challenger, with exit polls suggesting the Law and Justice Party had won 39% of the vote, and a projected 242 of the parliament’s 460 […]
The date for the SGM called to remove the chairperson of Body Positive has yet to be confirmed. A petition signed by 48 members of Body Positive triggered the Special General Meeting (SGM) with the signatories calling for the removal of chairperson Ashley Barratt as a result of what they perceive to be problems with […]
One of New Zealand’s leading HIV researchers has called on the New Zealand government to “remove red tape” so new HIV prevention initiatives can be rolled out. New Zealand delegates have returned from the World STI Congress and Australasian HIV Conference in Brisbane excited by the possibility of reversing new HIV infections in gay and […]
The Vatican’s three week Synod has ended in disappointment for gay Catholics. As the controversial synod closed this weekend, the church’s bishops voted on a summary document which decided against overhauling the church’s teaching on gay Catholics. The bishops concluded that church teaching on GLBT people would remain, agreeing that while GLBT people in the […]
Australian-born academic and writer Germaine Greer has said that in her opinion, transgender women are “not women”. The well known second wave feminist made the comments in an interview with the BBC where she claimed that “a great many women” who are not transgender think transgender women – who she refers to as “male to female […]