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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 […]
The 28 EU member states have reached a consensus on LGBT rights for the first time in European history. The Council of the European Union reached consensus on Friday on a Netherlands-backed agreement concerning women’s rights, gender equality and the protection of GLBT people across the EU. For the first time ever, the 28 member states agreed at […]
Teargas and rubber pellets have been used by police in Turkey to disperse a GLBT march in Istanbul which had been banned after ultranationalists said “degenerates” could not demonstrate. Riot police cordoned off Taksim Square to prevent the Trans Pride rally taking place during Ramadan. Authorities had earlier panned transgender and gay pride marches during during […]