Ballot Boxing
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8th April 2015
Nigeria, Northland and New South Wales went to the polls recently. How were LGBT interests dealt with in each jurisdiction?
UK: Heisenberg's Election?
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2nd April 2015
In the United Kingdom, the next general election will be held in a month's time. Who will win? Good question. And what will the consequences be for Great Britain's LGBT population?
That Old Raddled Cross?
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26th March 2015
Six months after the most recent New Zealand general election, and the New Zealand Christian Right is looking somewhat frayed and shopworn. What's wrong with the Conservative Party and Family First?
O Canada: Paradox Versus Progress?
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19th March 2015
What's with the "True North" under its Conservative administration and how does that affect transgender rights there?
ISIS, LGBT Equality and Solidarity
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12th March 2015
Over a decade since the US-led intervention and occupation of Iraq, political instability haunts the troubled nation still, with the rise of ISIS. Should New Zealand be committing troops to that hotspot? But what about the torture and execution of lesbian and gay Iraqis?
Pyrrhic Victory?
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8th March 2015
How long will anti-same-sex marriage Aussie PM Tony Abbott last in the top job and whom is lined up to fight it out to replace him...
The Curtain Falls: Final Defeat of the Manukau Anti-Sexworker Bill
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Parliament has finally voted down the controversial transphobic and anti-sexworker Manukau City Bill, after four years of stalemate and arduous conflict.
Natural Law: Homophobia's Iron Curtain
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22nd February 2015
I used to review anti-gay literature regularly in this column and its predecessors, but as with Christian Right antigay initiatives itself, the despicable genre seems to be dying. Why is this?
The Vanished "Ruins" of "Sodom"
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12th February 2015
Where did Logan Robertson's particularly vitriolic form of homophobia come from? Welcome to the phantom neverworld of "Sodom and Gomorrah", and "sodomy."
The Deluge Arrives
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5th February 2015
After the holiday hiatus, February 2015 looks to be an eventful month. What significance to LGBT rights do recent current political events have?
Conspiratoria Nullia?
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31st January 2015
Where have all the antigay conspiracy theories gone? And why were they more common thirty years or so ago?
France's Other Nightmare: The French National Front
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23rd January 2015
The Christian Right is not the only problem many LGBT Europeans have to face. Look at France's National Front, for example, writes Craig Young.
Blasphemy, Censorship and LGBT Rights
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15th January 2015
What is "blasphemy"- and how have blasphemy laws been used against LGBT rights elsewhere in the world?
Reconfiguration?
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9th January 2015
With the impending loss of any traction against LGBT rights within the developed world, what happens to anti-LGBT political activism? What will it be replaced with?
Craig Young's top 10 politics and religion stories of 2014
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30th December 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the highs and lows that characterised New Zealand and overseas LGBT news this year.
