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Following years of intense debate, America’s largest Presbyterian denomination has announced a change to its constitution that allows for a more inclusive definition of marriage. The Huffington Post reports that the US Presbyterian Church has just reached the majority it needed to approve a change in it’s constitution to include GLBT inclusive marriage. About 71 […]
Auckland Council’s Community Development and Safety Committee has voted 7 – 2 to allow the creation of a rainbow advisory board to proceed. In an impassioned plea to colleagues before the vote, chairperson Cathy Casey talked of the challenges Auckland’s GLBT community still faced and expressed her view that the advisory board was long overdue saying […]
The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre has welcomed the 500,000th visitor through the doors of the beautiful Pah Homestead since opening to the public less than five years ago. The Wallace Arts Trust have been tracking visitor numbers since the Arts Centre opened in August 2010 and one lucky visitor marked this milestone on Saturday […]
David Walliams and Alan Cumming are both on the list of international guests at this year’s writers festival. Now in its 15th year, the Auckland Writers Festival plays host to more than 150 writers over five days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free family events. The Festival saw a […]
2013 Auckland mayoral candidate Stephen Berry has slammed the current proposal for a Auckland council ‘rainbow advisory panel.’ Speaking to Levi Joule, he explains why he is opposed to the advisory panel as well as other GLBT related expenditure. Auckland council will tomorrow decide on whether the proposed Rainbow Advisory panel will proceed. If created, the panel would […]
Auckland’s Basement Adult Shop & Cruise Club has been burgled. Located on Canada street, Newton, The Basement is a adult shop and popular cruise lounge. Basement co owner Neil Bartlett told express that the burglary occurred at around 5.45am Monday morning, when over $1500 of stock was stolen from the premises. The main stock stolen was […]
For the first time in the Boston St Patricks Day parade’s 114 year history, gay groups have been allowed to march. The organisers, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, had a change of heart and told Boston Pride and Outvets, representing gay military veterans, they were welcome, the BBC reports. Boston’s St Patrick’s Day […]
In the face of widespread backlash and threats of boycott, Doice and Gabbana have sought to clarify their comments around IVF and same sex couples adopting. “We firmly believe in democracy and the fundamental principle of freedom of expression that upholds it,” Stefano Gabbana said in a statement to The Independent. “We talked about our […]