Category: News
Kevin Hague launched a new video over the weekend detailing why he believes he is the best person to take over from Russel Norman as Green Party Co Leader. Kevin Hague is a third term Green party MP who has a long history of activism within the GLBT community, including time served as executive director […]
Auckland Pride Festival Inc is seeking expressions of interest for new board members. Pride says that those who have a passion for the wider rainbow community and have skills and experience in Human Rights, Community Relationships, Finance/Accounting, Governance, HR Management, Digital Infrastructure and Delivery, Sponsorship, PR or Marketing should appeal. Board members are appointed for a three-year term, with some expiring in alternating years, […]
Queer film festival Outtakes will not be returning this year. Popular GLBT film festival Outtakes will not be returning in 2015, the first time in twenty years the festival has not been held. There is also some doubts around the longterm future of the festival with organiser Gavin Hamilton saying that for a 2016 festival […]
US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has reiterated her support for equal marriage rights calling same sex marriage a “constitutional right.” With the United States Supreme court set to rule on the issue of marriage equality in June, Clinton, who has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for President has released a new statement calling ssame sex marriage a “constitutional […]
An Egyptian court has ruled that GLBT foreigners can be deported or banned from entering the country. The case in question involved an allegedly gay Libyan man who the interior ministry barred from returning to Egypt in 2008. It it understood that the unnamed graduate student appealed the decision in hope of continuing his studies […]
The Church of England has been criticised by GLBT activists over its failure to speak out against controversial therapy which claims to divert gay people to heterosexuality. The Church of England has been criticised for failing to condemn a Christian conference which backed a “cure” for homosexuality. The Telegraph has revealed that a member of the […]
Researches from the University of Sydney and University of Western Sydney will be exploring the impact the February 2011 earthquake on Christchurch’s GLBT residents. Research in Australia and internationally has shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex populations experience a range of specific challenges during the impact and recovery phases of a natural disaster. […]
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul who is running for the Republican nomination for US President has advocated contracts as an alternative to same sex marriage. Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash who asked why the self described libertarian was opposed to same sex marriage, “Why do you believe just as a core principle, as a libertarian, that […]