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The Gay Auckland Business Association’s annual general meeting will be held this Wednesday. The Annual General Meeting of the Gay Auckland Business Association will be held at The Oak Room, Drake Street, Auckland on Wednesday 8 July 2015 at 6pm. The meeting will elect a new executive as well as vote on proposed changes to […]
Kiwi speed skater Blake Skjellerup has wed his partner in a beach ceremony in Hawaii. New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup has married Saul Carrasco at a beach ceremony in Hawaii. The kiwi Olympian met Carrasco, a designer via Instagram last year. The couple told Queerty.com that they chose Hawaii as their wedding location “for its […]
Finland has granted a Russian couple asylum because of the anti gay persecution they faced in their home country. A Russian gay couple have been granted asylum in Finland because of the discrimination they faced at home over their sexual orientation, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports. Vladimir Naumov and Vasily Kolesnikov applied for asylum shortly […]
The NRL has publicly announced its support for marriage equality in Australia, with South Sydney Rabbitohs player George Burgess saying those opposed to the move need to get over it. Just a few days before the State of Origin final, the National Rugby League has pledged its support for marriage equality. The NRL’s Chief Operating Officer […]
The decriminalisation of homosexuality it Mozambique makes it one of only a few African countries where same-sex relationships are legal. Mozambique has removed homosexuality from its penal code. The revised code, in force from Wednesday, drops a colonial-era clause outlawing “vices against nature.” While the law was never enforced, GLBT activists are claiming the official decriminalisation […]
Raymond Roea takes a look at the changing state of LGBTI rights in Japan. In April 2015, Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward made history by becoming the first jurisdiction in East Asia to recognise same-sex couples, through partnership certificates. This was followed within the same month by another landmark step for Japan, when the Ministry of Education urged […]
An assembly of U.S. church leaders have voted overwhelmingly to accommodate gender neural language in their marriage canon. The Episcopal church has voted to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The vote came in Salt Lake City at the denomination’s national assembly.Presented at the church’s triennial […]
Those looking to carry on the party after being required to leave licensed venues at 4am now have a place to dance until the sun rises. TAP Aka The After Party is a new ‘dry bar’ which will serve non alcoholic drinks between 12 – 8am. Located at 268 K road, the bar is a […]