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The Auckland University Students’ Association will be holding it;s second annual Pride Week next week. Hosted by the AUSA Queer Rights Officer, Pride Week, now in its second year, is a week of fun events for students, staff and alumni, and is focused around LGBT young people and their stories. “It will be a great […]
The motion to create a Auckland council rainbow panel has passed. Auckland council’s governing body has just voted in favour of the creation of a new rainbow panel.The irst 18 months of funding for the new panel will come out of the Mayoral budget. The panel will provide a local government platform from which to address […]
The Auckland council’s governing body will decide on whether or not it will proceed with the proposed rainbow panel this afternoon. The governing body has just taken a break for lunch, with the decision on the rainbow panel to be made shortly after the meeting reconvenes. If formally approved, the panel will provide a local government platform […]
Hillary Clinton changed the colours of her presidential campaign logo on social media to the rainbow colours symbolising the GLBT rights movement, shortly before the Supreme Court heard arguments on same sex marriage. Clinton’s logo changed on her Facebook and Twitter pages Tuesday morning US time. Facebook pages for individual state branches of the Clinton campaign also […]
Kiwis and South Sydney Rabbitohs player Issac Luke has been fined $10,000 for using a homophobic slur on Instagram. Luke has had $5000 of the fine suspended but will be required to undergo an education program after making a homophobic slur on social media. The slur was made on Good Friday after Luke made a post attempting […]
The Sinn Fein proposal to allow same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland was narrowly defeated in the Northern Ireland Assembly by 49 votes to 47. The motion to introduce marriage equality to Northern Ireland was introduced by the left wing Irish Republican party Sinn Fein. Democratic Unionist Party Assembly member Peter Weir said his party opposed […]
Kim Kardashian has spoken publicly for the first time since Bruce Jenner’s interview to Diane Sawyer in which he declared he was transitioning into a woman. Speaking on The Today Show, Kardashian says that: “Bruce is the most honest…he has the biggest heart, and I’m really happy for him that he is living his life […]
Around 2000 people marched through the Shibuya district of Tokyo to celebrate GLBT pride. In a Japanese first, Shibuya passed ordinance allowing partnership registration for same-sex couples this year. It’s part of a slow growth of awareness of GLBT issues in a largely socially conservative country. Parade organise Fumino Sugiyama said this was noticeable in the public’s […]