More than 4,000 people have signed a petition on the Downing St website calling for an end to gay deportations. It asks the Prime Minister to stop deporting gays and lesbians to countries where they may be imprisoned.
Lesbians who have children through IVF will be able to name their partners on birth certificates from next month.
From April 6th, lesbian couples will automatically have both their names added to the birth certificate of children conceived following fertility treatment.
February was a busy month on Same Same! We've had Mardi Gras and Mardi Bar, dancing and dieting, sharks and shattered glass, not to mention drags in the desert.
If you're in the mood for some light hearted comedy with strong performances, head out to the Factory Theatre in Marrickville for Heir Raising.
Post 'Mardi Gras' blues? Come up north where everything is fine!
 Lez Get Real | Gay rites helped fuel movement Poughkeepsie Journal, NY The decision by the mayor of a community of a little more than 6000 to defy his state's marriage laws drew national and international media attention and helped trigger a movement that has had legal and social ramifications ever since. Starting Feb. ... Timeline: Gay marriages |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Britain given key role in new Diamond League of athletics Daily Mail, UK He is likely to be at the forefront of any duels with either fellow countryman Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder, or American world 100m champion Tyson Gay. The league has so far confirmed 12 meetings which will now include two in the ... Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 |
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Still Running From ’Gay’ Tag EDGE Boston, MA EDGE Editor-in-Chief Steve Weinstein has been a regular correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, the Advocate, the Village Voice and Out. He has been covering the AIDS crisis since the early ’80s, when he began his career. ... |
Lez Get Real | Gay rites helped fuel movement Poughkeepsie Journal, NY The decision by the mayor of a community of a little more than 6000 to defy his state's marriage laws drew national and international media attention and helped trigger a movement that has had legal and social ramifications ever since. Starting Feb. ... Timeline: Gay marriages |
Telegraph.co.uk | Britain given key role in new Diamond League of athletics Daily Mail, UK He is likely to be at the forefront of any duels with either fellow countryman Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder, or American world 100m champion Tyson Gay. The league has so far confirmed 12 meetings which will now include two in the ... Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 |
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Still Running From ’Gay’ Tag EDGE Boston, MA EDGE Editor-in-Chief Steve Weinstein has been a regular correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, the Advocate, the Village Voice and Out. He has been covering the AIDS crisis since the early ’80s, when he began his career. ... |
Auckland's second annual Westie lesbian day of entertainers and musicians is now lined up for this Sunday afternoon.
The sun shone on Wellington's Civic Square yesterday afternoon, as over 8,000 people passed through the annual Out in the Square day of LGBT community entertainment.
A critically-acclaimed collection of 'gender fluid' photography ? including several nude images ? are on the walls of a Palmerston North gallery from this weekend, in what is being described as a "bold move" in the conservative town.
As gays and lesbians have fought for rights and won elected office, public opinion has shifted. Back in 1977, singer Anita Bryant of Florida was leading a Bible-based campaign against homosexuals, claiming they were sinners and a threat to children and family life. When pollsters asked more than 1,000 Californians – face to face, in [...]
The day after Proposition 8, a Mormon supported ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage, passed in California, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints released a formal statement saying, “the church does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights.” Last [...]
California’s long, tortuous war over same-sex marriage enters its next phase on Thursday, when the state Supreme Court hears oral arguments on three lawsuits challenging Proposition 8, the controversial constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage. The easy way to think about these cases — and the way most non-lawyers are likely to do it [...]
They met when playing together in New Zealand's first gay rugby team the Krazy Knights and today the happy couple will tie the knot in a public display of love. 
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