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The Auckland Pride Festival and Parade is now looking for enthusiastic, welcoming and community-minded volunteers from all backgrounds with a broad variety of skills. There are many roles available in which you can apply your expertise, make new friends, and enjoy the Auckland Pride experience! The Parade Director is currently seeking volunteers for a variety […]
The Auckland Pride Festival and Parade will be bringing the love back to our fabulous Super City throughout February 2015! Now entering its third year, the Auckland Pride Festival is firmly established as New Zealand’s biggest and best social and cultural celebration for the Rainbow Community (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Takatāpui, Fa’afafine, Intersex, Queer) and […]
He tātai whetū ki te rangi, ko te ira tangata ki te whenua. The stars come out to play at the Auckland Pride Parade! With over 45 entries and floats expected, the Auckland Pride Parade 2015 is the main event and the divine spectacle of the Auckland Pride Festival, celebrating our wonderously diverse Rainbow Community, […]
Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated has reappointed Richard Taki as the Auckland Pride Parade Director for 2015. After directing last year’s Pride Parade, and marrying his partner Shane while in Auckland, Taki returned to Melbourne and his work at the Victorian College of the Arts. He was actively involved in the 20th International AIDS Conference in […]
St Andrew’s on The Terrace Presbyterian Church (Wellington) says it is deeply disappointed but defiant in the face of the news that yesterday the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has voted to ban Ministers from performing marriages between same-sex couples. “This decision is deeply disturbing and we strongly dissent from it,” says St Andrew’s […]
Supporters of murdered trans-woman Mayang Preseto took acceptation to the Courier Mails printing ‘she-male’ on its front cover. Mayang Praseto was reportedly murdered and then boiled by her chef husband Marcus Volke, some of her remains were found on the stovetop of a brisbane apartment on Saturday, when police arrived to investigate a foul smell. Volke fled […]
Nationwide same-sex marriage has taken a large step closer to becoming reality in the US. In a decision many legal experts had expected would be drawn out with delays, the US Supreme Court has agreed in favour of decisions made by five smaller ‘Appeals’ courts to legalise same sex marriage in their states. This decision […]
Scientist believe they have pinpointed the origins of the HIV virus. 1920’s Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is thought to be the birth place of HIV. The transmission from primates to humans, substantial urban growth, strong railway links during Belgian colonial rule, and changes to the sex trade between […]