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Auckland Pride Festival hope to be announcing their new Festival Director ‘very soon’. Pride Executive Officer has exclusively told express that interviews for Pride’s new Festival Director will begin this coming Thursday (27 November). “I believe all of the applicants are able to start immediately,” she tells express. “So we are hoping to make that […]
Applications for financial support to put on an event in the Festival or an entry into the Parade are now open. It is available for download from the Gaba website. The Successful grants will be announced at the GABA Mixer on Wednesday 4 February 2015. Auckland’s Pride Festival Parade will run from Friday 6 February […]
Gay rugby’s biggest tournament is to be hosted by Nashville in 2016. Nashville beat competition from Chicago to host the biannual tournament which is named after Mark Bingham, one of the leading lights in the development of gay rugby and a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks. International Gay Rugby chairman Jeff Wilson said the bids […]
Saturday’s Pride Parade featured the Priscilla shoe from the iconic 1994 movie musical among other glamorous and exotic sights. Perth’s Pride festival drew to a close on Saturday night with a parade now in it’s 25th year. The nine days of festivities culminated in the Pride Parade through the streets of Northbridge, with many attendees […]
42% of New Zealander’s would be uncomfortable having a flatmate who is HIV positive is just one of a number of alarming statistics from the NZ AIDS foundation. Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1st, the NZAF are running a campaign to raise awareness of the stigma those living with HIV/AIDS face. In September, […]
Former executive director of ‘Love In Action’ group set up to ‘cure’ homosexuality has just married his partner in Oklahoma. John Smid who was the executive director of ‘Love In Action’ between 1990 and 2008 has been openly gay since leaving the group and has been in a relationship with his partner Larry McQueen for about […]
With just one week left to go before the Victoria state election, the Victoria Labor party has pledged a number of significant reforms for the Victorian GLBT community including the introduction of a gender and sexuality commissioner in an effort to tackle discrimination and homophobia if it wins next Saturday’s poll. A Daniel Andrews Labor Government […]
Rainbow Youth celebrated their 25th birthday in style last night at a function held at Auckland’s Foating Pavilion in the viaduct harbour. One of the keynote speakers was Labour MP Louisa Wall who gifted a painting of Tamati Coffey to Rainbow Youth and spoke of the need for organisations such as Rainbow Youth to ensure “everybody […]