Category: News
Controversy has erupted over a pharmaceutical company’s plan to raise the cost of a drug used to treat HIV from US $13.50 to $750 overnight. The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from […]
The date and venue for 2015’s GABA charitable auction has been announced. The annual GABA Charity Auction & Luncheon will return to the Hilton Auckland on Sunday 15 November 2015. The long-running and much-loved event is the primary fundraiser for the GABA Charitable Trust, which has distributed community grants and scholarships now amounting to almost […]
Las Vegas held it’s annual pride parade drawing tens of thousands of people. Las Vegas is one of the last US cities to hold it’s annual pride festivals, as summer in the northern hemisphere draws to a close. “It’s all about love, and it’s great to see all these people out here in support of love […]
Popular radio reality webseries star and Transgender personality Mary Haddock-Staniland is throwing up her hand to show support for online campaign #MyBodyMyTerms. The movement, created by New Zealand star Lizzie Marvelly, hopes to spark an open conversation about victim- blaming, revenge porn, sexuality and rape culture in this country. Mary Haddock-Staniland has been at the […]
The move has been met witch fierce criticism from a number of conservatives. US President Barack Obama has nominated longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army’s new secretary. If confirmed, Fanning, a civilian, would be the nation’s first openly gay leader of a military service. The move has been welcomed by GLBT rights […]
Argentina has ended it’s ban on gay men donating blood. At a signing ceremony for the resolutions lifting the ban, Health Minister Daniel Gollan said, “For a long time, people believed that homosexual relationships were more risky than heterosexual relationships” in terms of contracting HIV, a perception that had led to the initial ban. “What […]
Max Lin writes from his unique perspective as a gay Taiwanese migrant, on the issues the GLBT community must still address in order to become more inclusive. Moving to New Zealand, at the age of six, was probably the single most life-changing moment in my life. People tend to underestimate the power that moving to […]
The English pop star claims he received a call from the Russian President, despite denials from the Kremlin. Singer Sir Elton John says that he had received a phone call from an unlikely source — Russian President Vladimir Putin. Posting on Instagram, the singer said “Thank you to President Vladimir Putin for reaching out and […]