Category: News
BREAKING NEWS: A cross-party bill for marriage equality is expected to be introduced to the Australian Federal Parliament on August 11. The bill will be sponsored by Liberal MPs Warren Entsch and Teresa Gambaro, independents Andrew Wilkie and Cath McGowan and two Labor Party MPs. The Liberal Party room is expected to decide on a free […]
States in America’s deep south have finally began to issue marriage licenses despite attempting to resist Saturday’s Supreme Court decision that gay men and lesbians had a constitutional right to marriage. The New York Times reports that America’s last major pockets of resistance to same-sex marriage were rapidly shrinking as officials in states across the […]
Episode one of The 30 Project has been released today ahead of NZAF’s 30th anniversary celebration tonight at Auckland Museum. The episode begins in 1984, with the first New Zealander known to have HIV/AIDS – a man infected in San Francisco who returned home to New Plymouth to die. The New Zealand AIDS Foundation grew […]
“Legal equality needs to result in health equality for GLB New Zealanders, and that begins with census, being counted,” a leading medical researcher says. The Gay Men’s Sexual Health (GMSH) research group, which is based at the University of Auckland has repeated calls to include sexual orientation in the 2018 census and has requested those […]
Participants in Istanbul’s pride parade refused to allow heavy handed police tactics deter their celebration. CNN reports that Sunday’s pride parade was interrupted by police who fired pepper spray, tear gas and rubber pellets at thousands when they arrived to march. While the parade has been held peacefully for the past 13 years, the Istanbul […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mika is currently in talks to perform at an alternative GLBT festival in place of Auckland Pride. Following on from the news that Mika Haka has parted with Auckland Pride, express has learnt that the acclaimed performer is currently in talks to perform at an alternative GLBT festival in place of Auckland Pride. The event […]
An Auckland trans woman says she was the victim of blatant discrimination at an Auckland Farmers store in Botany this morning. Whilst shopping with best friend Mitchell Harvey at Farmers Botany today, Kiwi transgender personality Mary Haddock-Staniland says she was asked by staff in the women’s fashion department if she was a man or woman; […]
Acclaimed performer Mika Haka has dumped Auckland Pride over the removal of Treaty of Waitangi references from the festival’s deed. Mika Haka last week cut off ties with Auckland Pride after the festival removed reference to the Treaty of Waitangi in it’s deed. The singer returned from LA where he performed at the LA Pride […]