Category: News
The Auckland Pride festival has announced two new community forums to be held in October and November. The community forums have only just been announced after calls from some members of the community to hold them in order to provide feedback into how the festival is run. The first of the forums will be held […]
Auckland Pride have announced their core production team for the 2016 festival. In a press release, the Auckland Pride Festival introduced the new and returning faces who will be running 2016’s programme of events. “We are thrilled to have such a range of skill and acumen to oversee the coming festival” says co-Chair of the […]
A transgender woman has allegedly been raped by her cellmate at the male-only Wiri Prison. The inmate says the attack took place overnight on Thursday at Auckland South Corrections Facility, resulting in dual investigations by police and the Department of Corrections. The transgender woman was assaulted by seven men, and was later raped it is […]
The Catholic Church has come under fire after dismissing a high-ranking Polish priest on the same day he revealed that he was gay. Father Krzystof Charamsa, who held a post in the Vatican’s branch for protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its ‘backwards’ attitude to homosexuality. The 43-year-old revealed that he also […]
Pope Francis’ meeting with an American woman at the center of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement according to the Vatican. Retuers reports that the Vatican have released a statement saying there was “a sense of regret” that the pope had ever […]
Caitlyn Jenner will not face charges in relation to the February car crash that led to a death of another driver. In explaining their decision not to charge Caitlyn Jenner, California prosecutors released a statement saying there was “not enough evidence for a conviction”, in contradiction with earlier media reports that the local sheriff’s office […]
New research has led to a call being made for NZ doctors to ask about a patient’s sexuality during the first consultation. Only half of gay and bisexual men surveyed in New Zealand believed their general practitioner knew about their sexual orientation according to new research led by the University of Auckland. The research also […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has reaffirmed his commitment to equality despite the United Nations stripping GLBT rights out of its global goals. Ban Ki-moon has reaffirmed his commitment to GLBT equality despite stripping GLBT rights out of its global goals. The reaffirmation comes follows months of criticism from a number of GLBT groups who say the UN have […]