A billboard erected by New Zealand beer company Tui after the country legalized same-sex marriage has been criticized as homophobic.

Tui billboards typically state something that is unlikely for anyone to say followed by the phrase, ‘Yeah, right!’ – meaning ‘as if anyone would ever say that!’

A young gay Asian man told the select committee examining the marriage equality bill in New Zealand's parliament yesterday that not all ethnic minorities in the country are against same-sex marriage.

Asian and Pacific Island communities in New Zealand have expressed opposition to the marriage equality bill. For example, members of a Korean church travelled from Auckland to Wellington to present their opposition to parliament.

David Do, a New-Zealand-born man of Vietnamese-Chinese heritage, spoke for gay members of ethnic minority communities.

Continuing our series of getting to know the world’s LGBT sports clubs, in this issue we head to New Zealand to meet Martin Kaulback, Club Captain of Different Strokes - the LGBT aquatics club from Wellington.

How did Different Strokes start?

Different Strokes was established in 2008 by three swimmers - Hamish Allardice, David Huxford and myself.

Is Different Strokes just a swimming club or does it include other activities?

Two teens have been arrested in connection with the murder of Lawrence Corrêa Biancão, a 20 year-old student, in Campo Grande, in the south west of Brazil.

The two confessed to the crime and stated that their motivation was theft and homophobia.

‘He wanted to kiss me and I wanted to kill him’, declared the boy who killed Biancão to daily Campo Grande News.

Staff at an eco-sanctuary in New Zealand have identified a transgender bellbird with female DNA, male behaviour and plumage of both sexes.

Conservation officer Erin Jeneway at Zealandia eco-sanctuary outside Wellington was the first to spot the trans bird.

‘There’s something we can’t pin down. We haven’t seen anything like this before,’ Jeneway said to The Dominion Post.

If you look at the website of any LGBT community-based sports club, the goals, objectives and sentiment are generally pretty similar and very inclusive.

For example, Frontrunners proclaims that it’s mission is to ‘promote the sports of running, walking and related athletic activities for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders and their supporters’. But if you talk to most Frontrunners clubs around the world and their membership is dominated by middle-aged gay men.

When American author Patricia Nell Warren had her novel The Front Runner first published in 1974, it would have been beyond her wildest expectations that it would sell more than 10 million copies. But what’s even more impressive is that the novel has been the inspiration for an international grass-roots movement.

Warren’s novel tells the story of the relationship between an ex-Marine track coach and his Olympic athlete. It’s been translated into 10 languages and is widely acclaimed as one of the most popular gay love stories of all time.

Outraged protesters marched into the offices of a newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, today, accusing the publication of transphobia.

The rally was organized by rights group The Queer Avengers after The Dominion Post printed columnist Rosemary McLeod's opinion piece 'Why I feel for the kids of ego-trippers'.