Category: News
Two judges in Argentina reduced a convicted child abuser’s sentence almost by half, ruling his six-year-old victim had already been traumatised through earlier abuse. The judges ruled that Mario Tolosa would have his six year sentence cut to just 38 months saying  the man’s actions should not, in legal terms, be considered “gravely outrageous” because the boy […]
Labour MP for Manurewa Louisa Wall is vowing to continue the fight to ensure that gender identity is included in the Human Rights Act, despite today’s setback. The government today rejected Wall’s request to have gender identity included specifically in the Human Rights Act. Wall sought to introduce the change by having it included in the […]
A 45 year old man and his wife have appeared in the Auckland district court on charges of child abuse, relating in part to the prolonged abuse of a teenage daughter the father believed was lesbian. The couple this morning plead guilty to a total of 16 counts of abuse, including hitting and slapping his […]
A picture book featuring gay penguins in bondage gear with whips somehow found its way into the collection of Kaiapoi preschool, upsetting some. Gus and Waldo’s Book of Love features a pair of same sex male penguins in bondage gear with whips  and the line “they love each other with a dash of spice.” The book written […]
Unable to legally marry in Australia, Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden travelled to Rotorua, New Zealand with the help of money raised on a crowdfunding website to tie the knot. Lee Brandsen’s dying wish was to marry her partner Sandra Yates. The couple have been together for the past eight years. Lee is now terminally ill with end-stage […]
The Luxembourg Prime Minister became the first EU leader tom enter into a same-sex union Xavier Bettel tied the knot with his partner Gauthier Destenay,who he has been in a civil partnership with since March 2010, on Friday at a private ceremony. The world’s only openly gay leader made use of the equal marriage laws introduced by […]
The Annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will take place at venues throughout New Zealand on Sunday 17th May. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial now in its 32nd year, is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilisation campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place […]
A monument celebrating the contribution of  GLBT veterans in the United States will be unveiled in a national cemetery near Chicago on Memorial Day. The Guardian reports that the monument is a  black granite slab flanked by two blocks of pale granite, that will feature the five seals of the military’s main branches – the army, […]