A couple from New Zealand are stuck in Mexico after a trip to meet their new surrogate children went awry. Nicky and David Beard have spent four years embroiled in the process of bringing children into their family through surrogacy, only to discover one of the mothers had defrauded them. The Beards must now re-pay fees for […]
Concerns over the details of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have risen as New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has confirmed the deal would extend patents on many medications. “The government will have to pay for the original drug rather than the generic for a little bit longer,” Mr Key said, according to gaynz.com. […]
Most of Mexico’s 31 states have had a standing ban on marriage equality, but the Supreme Court has worked over the past few years to dismantle those state laws that confine marriage to heterosexual couples. In 2009, Mexico City legalised same-sex marriage, seeing over 5,000 marriages to date. The Supreme Court supported Mexico City law, […]
Two women have become the first same-sex couple to marry in Oaxaca, after Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the state marriage laws were unconstitutional. The two women sued the state government and won the case; with the high court ruling that Oaxaca’s marriage laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman were designed to […]
Whenever we think of gay-friendly holiday destinations we tend to automatically drift to destinations like London, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Cape Town… the list goes on! For those of you that want to go somewhere alternative that still offers a vibrant (but lesser known) gay scene, here are some ideas. Osaka, Japan With an […]
Mexico has annouced it will no longer refuse blood donations from gay and bisexual men. The policy turn around means that as long as the volunteer donors are HIV and Hepatitus negative and not injecting drug users they will now be allowed to donate blood. The Mexican National Council To Prevent Discrimination welcomed the move […]
