Category: News
Acclaimed gay composer Jack Body has died just days after receiving an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award. Body, 70, died at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington yesterday after failing health in recent years. The Arts Foundation said in a statement that Body would be sorely missed. “Jack was awarded a Laureate Award in 2004 […]
New research has shown the UK now leads the world in gay and lesbian parliamentary representation following Thursday’s general election. The research was carried out by Professor Andrew Reynolds, from the GLBT Representation and Rights Research Initiative at the University of North Carolina. In a report, Reynolds calculates 27 GLBT candidates were elected to the […]
Jack Body, composer and Arts Foundation Laureate, has received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award during a private award ceremony at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington. Limited to a living circle of twenty, Icons are artists whose work represents a legacy to New Zealand and have made a significant impact on their chosen art form. […]
A new survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News has found that more Americans would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president than they would with an evangelical Christian president. The Wall Street Journal/NBC survey found 61 percent of respondents said they would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president, compared […]
A vicious homophobic attack on a gay couple at a restaurant in Manhattan has been caught on camera. Jonathan Snipes, 32, and Ethan York-Adams, 25 were at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Cinco de Mayo when Snipes received a text message informing him there was a death in his family. In haste, he quickly departed the restaurant […]
In an almost impressive new level of intolerance, an Nebraskan woman has decided to file a lawsuit against every single homosexual on earth. In the handwritten petition, 66-year-old Sylvia Driskell claims to be acting as ambassador for the plaintiffs, “God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ.” Appropriately titled Driskell v. Homosexuals, it asks U.S. District Judge […]
An GLBT advocacy group in Kenya has won an historic court victory that will allow it to formally register with the government. The victory could possibly open the door to the granting of greater rights for Kenya’s GLBT citizens. The ruling overturns a bureacratic decision that blocked Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission […]
A Tasmanian couple will marry in New Zealand in order to fulfil the dying wish of a woman who has only weeks to live. Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden have been together for eight years and want nothing more than to marry. Lee is now terminally ill with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and has […]