Category: News
University of Cambridge awards honorary doctorate. Regular visitor to Aotearoa, Sir Ian McKellen has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge. This is the second doctorate for the actor, who studied English literature at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. His first was awarded by the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Article | Paul […]
FIFA has started disciplinary proceedings against Brazil and Mexico after the host country’s fans chanted “puto” at Mexico’s goalkeeper during their match. Mexican fans chanted the same jibe in their country’s match against Cameroon. “Puto” loosely translates to “male prostitute or faggot.” Russia and Croatia are also in trouble after their fans displayed racist and anti-semetic […]
The United States has imposed strict sanctions on Uganda because of their anti-gay laws. The US has imposed strict visa restrictions, which will prevent certain Ugandan officials, those involved in human rights abuses, from entering the country. Other sanctions include cancelling a military exercise in Uganda, diverting aid to other African countries and cutting funding […]
RY held their AGM in Auckland recently. The meeting was well attended with more than forty people turning up. A new Board was elected, consisting of new and old faces : Samantha Hewlett, Joe Gatland, Daniel Chorley, Rachel Brebner, Jono Selu, Taine Polkinghorne, Melanie Govender, Stace Robertson, Natasha Gaffin and Beth Maynard. The ANZ Bank […]
A Scandinavian wins Mr Gay Europe For the first time in nine years. 20 year old Jack Johansson from Sweden has beaten fourteen other contenders to take out the title of Mr Gay Europe 2014. The youngest of the competitors, Johansson is a ballet student and performer. As part of his prize he will travel […]
Opera Australia has released soprano Tamar Iveri from her contract and she will not be performing in its Sydney production of Otello in July and August. A statement posted on the singer’s Facebook page last year compared gays and lesbians to fecal matter. Opera Australia had been under intense public pressure to release the singer […]
The US Senate confirmed two out nominees to federal judgeships today. Judge Darrin Gayles, confirmed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is the first openly gay African-American man to be confirmed as a lifetime-appointed federal judge. Staci Yandle, confirmed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, […]
In 2011 King’s College honoured Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, by gifting him an Honorary Degree in Law. In April of this year the Sultan signed a new penal code into law, which amongst other punishments, decrees death by stoning for consensual same-sex sexual activity. Several organisations and celebrities have already announced boycotts […]