Category: News
UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) – light-heavy weight fighter strips down showing his support for the GLBT community. After a two year sabbatical 32 year old UFC fighter Kyle Kingsbury grabs headlines at his return debut weigh-in with a surprise in his pants. Recently engaged to his partner Natasha, hunky Kingsbury stripped down for his weigh-in to […]
Returning from AIDS2014, the NZAF team bring back new insights along with sharing our successful prevention programme – LYC. “Many people at the conference were interested in our prevention work through LYC. We also had a chance to listen and learn, and I think there will be something we want to include in our approach […]
John Barrowman has been praised by gay communities around the world for his kiss for equality during the commonwealth games opening ceremony. Openly gay Scottish born actor John Barrowman kissed a male dancer during his “Gretna Green” act for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 47 year old Dr Who actor has hit […]
Did you know that over 1 in 5 people living in Auckland are of Asian ethnicity? Despite this, Asian peoples often lack visibility and representation in LGBTIQ services and community groups. Seeking to fill this gap, EquAsian is a new social-support group for LGBTIQ people of all ages who descend from all parts of the […]
We are now welcoming expressions of interest for many of our 2015 working groups. Have you ever wanted to be more involved behind the scenes and be part of the team that makes Mardi Gras happen? You told us in our 2014 Volunteer survey that many of you wanted to get more involved, but weren’t […]
Tributes were paid last night at the opening session of the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne Australia to the six delegates who lost their lives aboard flight MH17. A one minute global moment of remembrance was held in their honour with eleven former, present and future Presidents of the International AIDS Society onstage together […]
The games take over Glasgow from 23 July – 3 August with most of the competing countries still punishing homosexuality. 42 of the 53 countries that are participating in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games still criminalise homosexuality. All eight Asian countries attending the Scotland Games discriminate, with penalties for same sex intercourse ranging from 20 years […]
Three months after a well publicised name-change owner operator Wayne Clark returned Ponsonby Road’s Poof bar back to it’s original title, following community support. The announcement came in late April that owner Wayne Clark was changing the name of his recently opened boutique bar from Poof to POP on Ponsonby following pressure from the general public. […]