Category: News
A new ad for online travel company Expedia which features a gay couple has been met with a storm of hatred on Twitter. Attitude.co.uk reports that online travel booking company Expedia has unleashed a Twitter storm after featuring an interracial same-sex couple in its new promotional material. The image – which the company first shared on Twitter […]
A new exhibition by Wellington artist Mark Beehre uses photographs and oral histories to tell the stories of queer men born since gay sex was legalised in New Zealand almost 30 years ago. Mark Beehre’s exhibition, A Queer Existence, runs at Photospace Gallery in Wellington’s Courtenay Place from 10 April to 4 May. Mark says […]
Russia has failed in it’s attempt to block the UN from extending couple benefits to gay and lesbian staff. The vote which took place overnight failed to reverse the United Nation;s Secretary General’s July decision to recognize same-sex marriages of UN staff failed by 80 to 43 Haaretz reports. The decision to extend couple benefits was […]
The $20,000 fine handed out to Waratahs player Jacques Potgieter has been applauded by the Sydney’s gay rugby team the Sydney Convicts, who have welcomed Potgieter to join them for some training sessions. NSW Waratahs player Jacques Potgieter has been given a $20,000 fine for using homophobic language during Sunday’s game against the Brumbies. Potgieter’s […]
The UKIP leader labelled a group of GLBT activists ‘filth’ and ‘scum’ after he accuses them of scaring away his children when they invaded his local pub. The Independent reports that campaigners claiming to represent “those who have been targeted by Ukip” planned to stage a demonstration of around 100 people at Mr Farage’s local pun in […]
Former Wallabies captain and current Brumbies player David Pocock has denounced the homophobic slurs allegedly used yesterday during the Brumbies game against the Waratahs. An agitated Pocock made referee Craig Joubert address alleged homophobic slurs from a Waratahs forward as NSW clinched a 28-13 win in a fiery Australian contest at Allianz Stadium The Sydney […]
California State Attorney Kamala Harris looks likely to be forced to let petitioners decide if gay people should be executed. SFGate reports that Matt McLaughlin, a lawyer from Huntington Beach in Orange County, California paid his $200 filing fee Feb. 26 to submit the “Sodomite Suppression Act” to the voters. Declaring it is “better that offenders […]
Tamati Coffey and his partner Tim Smith opened their new lounge bar ‘Ponsonby Rd’ in Rotorua last night. Mr Coffey and his partner, Tim Smith, told the Rotorua Daily Post they were committed to living and working in Rotorua after Mr Coffey missed out on winning the Rotorua electorate seat in September’s general election. “We […]