The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has a new location in Christchurch, which it's hoping will permanently become a hub for community members. >>>

Labour Deputy Leader and Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson has reflected on the killing of gay journalist Phil Cottrell and urged community members to look out for each other, in opening Wellington’s largest glbt event. >>>

The wind is set to really whip up on Sunday night, however, that night's gay events in the capital are both indoors; the Carmen memorial at S&M's and the Glitter dance party at the Opera House later that night. >>>

A popular "meat-market" smartphone app that spawned a sexual revolution in Australia's gay community has been compromised by a Sydney hacker, potentially exposing intimate personal chats, explicit photos and private information of users. >>>

Gay Christchurch community leader Sam Johnson is one of three finalists in the New Zealander of the Year Awards, which will be handed out at a dinner ceremony in Auckland next month. >>>

TV One weatherman Tamati Coffey and his partner Tim Smith have shared a detailed account of their recent civil union in a magazine cover story, which describes the event as their "wild wedding". >>>

Auckland – A commercial for tampons has been pulled from screens after strong complaints that it offended transgendered people. >>>

Glitz and glamour will combine next month at a star studded event to raise much needed cash for New Zealand’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community. >>>

Pacific leaders have made a commitment to increasing the numbers of woman parliamentarians, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday. >>>

Legalise Love, a movement to supporting gay marriage and adoption in New Zealand, has launched on 22nd of August. >>>

A gay couple from Auckland, New Zealand, has given up on their dream of being married in New York, after threats were apparently made against family members in Pakistan. >>>

A major report into the state of life for New Zealand youth, which was personally commissioned by the Prime Minister, makes scant reference to same-sex attracted youth and does not mention transgender young people at all. Improving the Transition for Adolescents was requested by John Key in 2009 and was undertaken by a task force co-chaired by Professor Peter Gluckman and Professor Harlene Hayne. >>>

Auckland's diversity-embracing St-Matthew-in-the-City church is running a petition urging people to show their support for ending the discriminatory practices that prevent the selection and ordination of LGBTI people. >>>

HIV campaigners across the Tasman are utterly outraged after a safe sex promotion featuring a fully-clothed hugging gay couple has been pulled from Queensland bus shelters. The Queensland Association for Healthy Communities' "Rip and Roll" advertisements were launched only a week ago, but have today been canned by Adshel after about 30 complaints. >>>

UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law member Charles Chauvel has expressed concern about the impact Intellectual Property rights are having on the development of new HIV treatments. >>>

One of the men who beat a teenager to death so brutally that boot marks were found on his skull, because he decided the young man was gay, has been released from prison after 12 years behind bars. Jason Morris Meads was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 1999 for the murder of 14-year-old Jeff Whittington, along with Meads' accomplice in the killing Steven James Smith. >>>

(Craig Young) - The National Party's "Welfare Working Group" has proposed a massive retrenchment of social welfare benefits that threatens to damage New Zealand's social fabric. Our communities must oppose this. >>>

Laying to rest the claims by some conservative and religious Maori that homosexuality was unknown in Aotearoa/New Zealand before the arrival of European colonists, a noted Maori academic has said same sex love has always been an innate part of Maori life. >>>

UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law member Charles Chauvel has expressed concern about the impact Intellectual Property Rights are having on the development of new HIV treatments. >>>

Medals, music and speeches are closing out the AsiaPacific Outgames in Wellington. After a week of sport, human rights, arts and culture, plus parties a few hundred people have gathered in Civic Square where the event began with Out In The Square last Saturday. >>>