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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 […]
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 […]