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David Walliams and Alan Cumming are both on the list of international guests at this year’s writers festival. Now in its 15th year, the Auckland Writers Festival plays host to more than 150 writers over five days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free family events. The Festival saw a […]
2013 Auckland mayoral candidate Stephen Berry has slammed the current proposal for a Auckland council ‘rainbow advisory panel.’ Speaking to Levi Joule, he explains why he is opposed to the advisory panel as well as other GLBT related expenditure. Auckland council will tomorrow decide on whether the proposed Rainbow Advisory panel will proceed. If created, the panel would […]
Auckland’s Basement Adult Shop & Cruise Club has been burgled. Located on Canada street, Newton, The Basement is a adult shop and popular cruise lounge. Basement co owner Neil Bartlett told express that the burglary occurred at around 5.45am Monday morning, when over $1500 of stock was stolen from the premises. The main stock stolen was […]
For the first time in the Boston St Patricks Day parade’s 114 year history, gay groups have been allowed to march. The organisers, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, had a change of heart and told Boston Pride and Outvets, representing gay military veterans, they were welcome, the BBC reports. Boston’s St Patrick’s Day […]
In the face of widespread backlash and threats of boycott, Doice and Gabbana have sought to clarify their comments around IVF and same sex couples adopting. “We firmly believe in democracy and the fundamental principle of freedom of expression that upholds it,” Stefano Gabbana said in a statement to The Independent. “We talked about our […]
Express can reveal that the NZ AIDS Foundation is currently lobbying the Ministry of Health to trial Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in New Zealand. Following the controversy around the NZAF’s comments on porn star and PrEP advocate Blue Bailey’s visit to New Zealand, Executive Director Shaun Robison has reaffirmed that the organisation is actively lobbying for […]
The world’s largest furniture retailer said its magazine Ikea Family Live “demonstrates various aspects of home life regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation” and as result must be pulled from publication in Russia to comply with it’s law. The Guardian reports that the Swedish furniture seller is halting the publication of its online magazine in Russia […]
In a series of shocking comments, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, founders of the renown Doice and Gabbana fashion house have launched a tirade against in vitro fertilization (IVF) Speaking to Italian magazine Panorama Doice told the magazine “The family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging.” Dolce explained that he refers to children […]