Category: News
Amy Jane Bedwell considers the experiences of rural queer youth in New Zealand and asks: where do current support systems and initiatives leave this invisible community? “I grew up thinking queer people were perverts and paedophiles” says Toni Duder, Communications and Operations Manager at Rainbow Youth and creator of the I’m Local Project. She is […]
Rainbow Youth have officially opened their new premises on Edinburgh Street in Auckland Central with a ceremony led by Matua Pierre and attended by many community members. The opening was emotional and charged with energy including performances by key members and a powhiri to welcome visitors into the exciting new space. The AGM followed in […]
The Vodafone New Zealand Foundation (VZNF) have announced the recipients of the World of Difference Fellowship awards: Stace Robertson and Deirdre Otene. Stace and Deirdre will receive $90,000 each towards their work to help some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable young people. Robertson will be spending his fellowship year working with The Intersex Trust of Aotearoa NZ to support young […]
Valentino Wichman, a New Zealand GLBT young leader will be recognised by the Queen at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace tomorrow. Wichman will be awarded the Queen’s Young Leaders Award which recognises her contribution to changing the lives of her community. She is a supporter of GLBT rights in the Cook Islands and the Secretary of Te Tiara Association, the Cook […]
A man who says he was Omar Mateen’s lover has claimed the mass murderer acted out of revenge after finding out one of his partners was HIV positive. Mateen, 29, shot dead 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Florida, on June 12 in America’s worst mass shooting. In an interview with Spanish-language television […]
The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the fear of being persecuted When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the […]
Planning and preparation are underway for the Saturday 9 July Gala hosted by Rainbow Auckland (formally GABA). Sources have confirmed that a star-studded line up awaits all guests including the iconic Topp Twins! Mika Haka will open the night with a powerful pōwhiri and the guest of honor and driving force behind the Homosexual Law […]
Auckland Town Hall will be lit up with rainbow colours on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 of July in celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand. The bill was introduced to Parliament in 1986 by former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde after bitter public and political debate and, once […]