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Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated has officially announced the appointment of Teokotai (Ta’i) Paitai as Festival Director and Everall Deans as Festival Coordinator. “We are very pleased to have people of Ta’i and Everall’s calibre on board for 2015 and we invite everyone to join us in welcoming them in their new roles.” Co-chair of the […]
The International Olympic Committee has just added sexual orientation to the Olympic charter’s non discrimination policy. The recommendation from the Olympic Agenda 2020 to include “non-discrimination on sexual orientation in the Sixth Fundamental Principle of Olympism” was voted on at the 127th IOC Session in Monaco. The Sixth Principle already protects discrimination on the basis of […]
Jim Marjoram’s Silent Gays is being launched tonight at 6pm at Marcellos cafe on College Hill. Jim Marjoram has made national headlines this week after emailing churches seeking support for his new book the ‘Silent Gays project’ when he received a hate filled email rant from Westcity Baptist church pastor Logan Robertson who then told Marjoram “I pray […]
Facebook has refused to remove anti gay status updates from Westcity Baptist church. express was alerted to Facebook’s refusal to remove the posts which state gays would be put to death as a result of their sexuality by one of our readers who sent in this screenshot: Article | Levi Joule
The West Auckland pastor who emailed an author saying “I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag.” has told Fairfax Media that he stands by his statements. Robertson told stuff.co.nz that he “didn’t want anything in the papers” but admitted he had read a couple of the outraged comments on the […]
Richard James has been announced as the new Auckland Pride Board Member. Richard James return to the Auckland Pride Board comes after the resignation of Lexie Matheson a fortnight ago. The Pride board released a press release today saying “The board thanks Lexie for her services to Pride and her work in directing the 2014 […]
The author of ‘Silent Gays’ Jim Marjoram has spoken to express after he received an email response from Westcity Baptist Church pastor Logan Robertson telling him “I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag.” Author Jim Marjoram from the Silent Gays project, which is dedicated to ‘outlining the issues faced by GLBT people […]
A West Auckland pastor has told an author “I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag.” The story has been doing the rounds on popular social media site Reddit and express was alerted to the email by a number of readers. Jim Marjoram was emailing churches seeking support for his new […]