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The 2015 Auckland Pride programme has just been released online. This year’s Auckland Pride Festival runs from 6 February – 1 March 2015, which is one week longer than the last two festivals. 2015’s festival begins with an official dawn ceremony opening at Okahu Bay on Waitangi Day, followed by the Pride Gala on Saturday […]
Alabama becomes the latest to join the growing list of states where bans on same sex marriage have been struck down by federal judges. A federal judge has just ruled that Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Judge Callie V.S. Granade, ruled that Alabama’s constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage, ‘violates the 14th Amendment’s due […]
Express got an exclusive look into the line up for this year’s Proud party. Oliver Hall chats with Lyall Hakaraia aka TrannyDad about what we can expect. So what can you tell us about the up and coming Proud party. What’s the DJ line up? We are most excited about our international Djays , with […]
It has now been confirmed by the Auckland Pride parade organiser that the Israeli embassy will not have a float in 2015’s parade. Auckland Pride parade organiser Richard TakI confirmed the news, telling express when asked about a Israeli float that “we did not receive an application from them.” The deadline for entries closed last […]
US President Barack Obama has made an historic mention of GLBT rights in his state of the union speech. Barack Obama has made history again, becoming the first ever US President to mention the GLBT community in a state of the union address. Just days after the United States Supreme court said it would take […]
Horrifying new images depicting terrorist group ISIS throwing a gay man to his death have been released. The man was thrown off the highest point in the city of Mosul, Iraq for allegedly committing a crime of “the people of Lot,” meaning an act of sodomy. A second gay man is believed to have been executed […]
Stephen Fry has officially married his partner Elliot Spencer two weeks after revealing the couple planned to wed. Stephen Fry, 57, has married his partner Elliot Spencer, 27, at a register office in Dereham, Norfolk. The information was announced by Fry himself as the actor and presenter posted a picture on Twitter of him and partner, Spencer signing […]
Twitter has suspended Westboro Baptist Church’s twitter account as well as that of its leader, Shirley Phelps-Roeper. UK website Pink News reports that the radically anti gay hate group’s twitter account was suspended yesterday It is unclear as to what the reasons are, but the church did picket Twitter at last year, with Phelps-Roeper, from a […]