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Saturday, 6 February 2021, 2:24 pm 2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that she wants to see the bill to ban Conversion Therapy in Parliament by the end of 2021. Conversion therapy is any practice or form of treatment that seeks to change, suppress, or eliminate someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. The fundamental prin...

Press Release – Conversion Therapy Action Group 2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that she wants to see the bill to ban Conversion Therapy in Parliament by the … 2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that she wants...

Press Release – Conversion Therapy Action Group 2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that she wants to see the bill to ban Conversion Therapy in Parliament by the end of 2021. Conversion therapy is any practice or form of treatment that seeks to change, suppress, or eliminate someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. The fun...

In other words, perhaps, the coronavirus virus uses long-term infections as a mutational testing ground. While inside one person, they can try out all these different combinations of mutations and figure out, through trial and error, which ones are best at evading the immune system or helping the virus become more infectious. Nothing new and textbook virus evolution. However, the leap to the last sentence is not and is not the most likely outcome, rather the opposite, in my opinion, and very po...

Golriz Ghahraman and the youth branch of the National Party have called out comments Simon Bridges made where he said banning conversion therapy was an attack on free speech. I hate to be ‘that guy’ but isn’t cancelling Simon Bridges over his Gay Conversion comments proving him right about Cancel Culture? For the billionth time. Anyone who believes in a magical flying invisible spell casting Wizard for their moral and ethical compass and uses that magical flying invisible spell casting Wi...

A former DUP minister has been accused of advocating for LGBTQ+ conversion therapy Conversion therapy is still legal in NI 2 months ago Former DUP minister and Education Authority board member Nelson McCausland has come under fire after sharing an article that seemingly endorsed conversion therapy. The post which has since been deleted from McCausland’s Twitter account, was from a 2019 Gospel Coalition article focusing on Becket Cook, a former Hollywood set designer. The article states that ...

Conversion therapy ban introduced in Indiana — Mike Pences home state By Sophie Lewis Conversion therapy: God only knows Conversion therapy is currently still legal in Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence, who has long been criticized for his anti-LGBTQ positions. But this week, state legislators formally introduced a bill to ban the discredited "therapy" for minors.  Democratic State Senator J.D. Ford has authored Senate Bill 32, which would prohibit ment...

10 Wonderful Things That Happened in Australia Amid a Remarkably Hard 2020 It would be an understatement to say it’s been a tough year. But, it’s not all bad news. Why Global Citizens Should Care The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to reverse so much of the progress the world has made toward achieving the United Nations’ Global Goals, impacting goal 1, which seeks to end poverty and goal 2, which aims to eliminate hunger, among others. This year also showed that the world could come t...

Leslie Ventura Thu, Dec 17, 2020 (2 a.m.) During times of collective social stress, an artistic response can point a new way forward. The bubonic plague gave rise to the Renaissance, World War I paved the way for surrealism and World War II set the stage for abstract expressionism. Historians will surely study the effects of COVID-19 on art, but those of us living through the pandemic have a front-row ticket to emerging styles, many of which recall a better time and place, and look to a virus-...

photo credit // nick sokoloff Award-winning out musician Justin Utley released his first seasonal song earlier this month as he’s set to celebrate 25 years of singing in 2021. “All Is Bright” tells how, even during a tumultuous 2020, there’s still a silver lining.  “The pandemic has brought people closer,” he said.  “There’s nothing like spending time surrounded by the people who matter most, even if it’s over Zoom.”   “All is Bright” is an optimis...