Category: News
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 […]
Body Positive have received an increase in funding of 50% from the Ministry of Health. In recognition of Body Positive’s hard work and dedication to serving those living with HIV/AIDS, the organisation has received a 50% funding increase from the Ministry of Health. However, this only takes the total of state funding to $150,000 with […]
Global transgender icon Calpernia Adams will be the special guest at Mardi Gras Gender Trailblazers event at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on Saturday 21 Feb 2015 and will also be involved in the festival’s parade and party. Calpernia Addams first rose to international prominence in 1999 after her lover Barry Winchell was beaten to death whilst […]
Jonathan Smith has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to people living with HIV/AIDS. “I’m absolutely honoured and delighted to have received the award on behalf of those living with HIV/AIDS and those who lost their lives to it,” he tells express. Smith was nominated to receive […]