Category: News

Aug 08
Australian Television Networks Refuse to Air Anti Same Sex Marriage Ad

Two major Australian television networks have refused to air an anti same sex marriage advert from ‘Marriage Alliance’. Channel Seven and Ten have both refused to air anti same sex marriage adverts from ‘traditional marriage’ group The Marriage Alliance. The group launched its national ad campaign this week which claims marriage equality is just the […]

Aug 07
Louisa Wall Delivers Power Speech at Launch of The UN Campaign For Pacific Equality

Louisa Wall has just returned from Fiji where she helped launch the ‘Pacific UN Free and equal campaign.’ express has an exclusive copy of the powerful speech she delivered. The Manurewa MP and marriage equality champion has just returned from Fiji where she helped launch the Pacific UN Free & Equal campaign – a regional […]

Aug 06
Uganda’s GLBT Community Prepares to Celebrate Pride – in Secret

Despite the risks, Uganda’s GLBT community is preparing to celebrate their very own pride festival. Uganda’s annual pride festival will begin this week, with a wide array on celebrations, but unlike other worldwide pride celebrations, GLBT Ugandans will mark the week in secret. The fourth annual Uganda Pride will include film screenings, a cocktail party, […]

Aug 05
UK Labour Leadership Frontrunner Threatens Economic Consequences For Anti Gay Countries

The UK Labour leadership frontrunner has turned his attention to GLBT issues. UK Labour leadership frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn has said he would impose economic and diplomatic consequences for countries opposed to equal rights for GLBT people. In an interview with Pink News, Corbyn spoke extensively about his commitment to GLBT rights, citing his long parliamentary […]

Aug 05
Jamaica Holds First Ever Gay Pride Festival

Caribbean nation’s pride festival makes history. Jamaica made history this week – holding its first ever GLBT pride festival. The Associate Press reports that the week long festival held in the Jamaican capital of Kingston included a flash mob gathering in a park, an art exhibit, a dance party and performances featuring songs and poems […]

Aug 04
Russian Police Round up and Detain Dozens of GLBT Activists

Russian police have arrested over a dozen GLBT rights protestors in St Petersburg. Russian police in St. Petersburg have detained several GLBT activists, who held pickets in defence of equal rights on a Russian military holiday, Airborne Forces Day. The arrests occurred after the group of GLBT protestors were assailed by veterans of Russian Airborne Forces, who […]

Aug 03
Updated: 2016 Outgames Will be Scaled Down if it Proceeds as ATEED Reject Funding Application

The future of the 2016 Asia Pacific Outgames scheduled to be held in Auckland next February looks grim – unless urgent community action is taken. Serious doubt has been cast over the likelihood that the 2016 Asia Pacific Outgames will proceed as it has emerged the organisation’s funding application to the Auckland Tourism, Events and […]

Aug 03
16 Year Old Stabbed at Jerusalem Pride Dies

A 16 year old girl who was stabbed in an attack at Jerusalem Pride has died. Shira Banki, a 16-year-old Israeli teen who was stabbed by an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man during the Jerusalem Pride parade has died of her injuries. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Banki was a high-school student from Jerusalem who was studying […]