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Saturday 10 October 2015

Inside Body Positive

Posted: 9th October 2015

As Body Positive's board drives changes to the way the organisation operates there is determined opposition to some of what is happening. BP's boss Mark Fisher addresses the allegations...

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Current Competition

• Confusion over BP chair's resignation offer
• Christchurch car crash victims named
• Heavey resigns as GM of Ak Pride Festival
• Proud to Play sports event registrations open
• Gay man dead, husband critical after crash
• Author of gay teenage fiction William Taylor, dies
• Lesbian woman avoids deportation
• Suicide statistics higher than ever before
• Report on Human Rights and Health in Asia-Pacific
• Health Minister happy with NZ's HIV action

• LGBT asylum seekers in UK could be deported
• Global network of LGBT Catholics launched
• Gay men thrown to their deaths in Iraq
• Powerful UN statement a historic first
• Ugandan activist wins ‘alternative Nobel Prize’
• Nepal leads the way with constitutional change

Telling the tales of our first lady

Posted: 9th October 2015

The first New Zealander to have full gender reassignment surgery really does have some stories to tell. In her 72 rich years she’s knocked down barriers countless times...

P&R: Serco and transgender prisoner safety

Posted: 5th October 2015

What is Serco, why is it allowed to continue to operate New Zealand prisons despite its lamentable safety record and how does the history of transgender prisoners’ rights fit into this situation?

Watch: Dropped Pie

Posted: 3rd October 2015

You might just spy a familiar (bearded) face in web series Dropped Pie! LaQuisha St Redfern features in this series about a new dish which is taking the food world by storm.

• Meet the new elected leaders of OverWatch
• It's time to get writing
• A heartland NZ romance: West of Eden
• Film preview: Freeheld

Artist Amos Mac talks about documenting trans communities

Posted: 7th October 2015

Trans artist Amos Mac shares his beautiful portraiture and thoughts on trans representation.

• Carmen Rupe at Te Papa
• Critics rip Stonewall apart

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A wedding in the rain

Posted: 11th September 2015

"Turns out Chels and Sami had been planning to elope, but at the last minute decided they’d like to include a small circle of family and friends. It felt like a rather large conspiracy."

• The gentrification of being gay
• Gala dinner raises thousands for NZ Falcons

Meet the new elected leaders of OverWatch

Posted: 2nd October 2015

The New Zealand Defence Force OverWatch group have announced a new Chair and Deputy Chair ahead of their AGM on Monday 5 October.

• 30 years on: The "Nuremberg Rally"
• Listen: queer history in the making panel

• PrEP a 'reasonable option' for some NZ men

Comment: Those in Peril on the Land?

Posted: 8th October 2015

LGBT Syrian refugees face three distinct ordeals- one from the brutal Assad regime in Damascus, one from the ISIS insurgents and another from Hungary's viciously right-wing Fidesz regime if they reach Europe. Let's deal with each in turn.

• P&R: Serco and transgender prisoner safety
• Comment: The Turnbull question
• Comment: The End of Canada's Conservatives?

EDtv
Ellen DeGeneres as Cynthia Topping

TV Picks 10OCT - 16OCT 2015

• Coronation Street - Sat & Fri - TV1
• Last Tango in Halifax - TV1
• Modern Family - Sky 5 & Prime
• QI - UKTV & Prime
• The Closer - Vibe
• Bewitched - Jones Sky 8
• Nip/Tuck - SoHo
• Father Ted - Sky 15
• Police Academy 2 The First Assignment - Sky 34
• Police Academy - Sky 34
• Topp Country - TV1
• Glee - FOUR
• Project Runway - Vibe Sky 6
• 'Allo 'Allo - UKTV
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie - Jones Sky 8
• Graham Norton Show - UKTV & TV3
• EDtv - Sky 34
• Emmerdale - Mon to Thurs - TV1
• Ellen DeGeneres Show -Mon to Fri - TV2
• Wentworth Series 3 - TV2
• Shameless - TV2
• Songs on the Inside - Anika Moa - Maori TV
• Empire -Series 2 - TV2
• America's Next Top Model - FOUR
• 7 Days of Sport - Urzila Carlson - TV3
• 500 Days of Summer - Sky 33
• Nashville - TV1
• Nurse Jackie - FOUR
• The Big Bang Theory - TV2
• Ziegfeld Follies - TCM
• Philomena - Sky 32
• House Husbands - TV1
• Alan Carr - Chatty Man - TV1
• Orange is the New Black - TV2
• Born In the Wrong Body:
-- My Transgender Kid - TV3 Thurs
• The Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris - TV2
• RuPaul's Drag Race - TV2
• Bones - Prime
• Mr Selfridge - TV1
• The Graham Norton Show - UKTV & TV3
• Police Academy 4 - Citizen on Patrol - Sky 34
• Police Academy 5 - Assignment Miami Beach - Sky 34