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Timaru also used to be a tough environment for the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, and intersex LGBTI community, he said. Things had improved considerably, but there were still people in the community who were less than tolerant.
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The group was formed in by youth workers Kirsty Henderson and Cat Slee. They believe that more education is needed in South Canterbury schools about sexual and gender-based issues. Seemingly small things such as talking about partners, rather than boyfriends or girlfriends, were becoming increasingly important, Henderson said. It looked at ways to address a range of issues affecting LGBTI youth in a variety of areas, including education, health, and justice.
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Teachers and school staff will receive additional training about sexuality and gender identity, which Sarchett said was incredibly important. A revised sexuality guide was also released by the Ministry of Education in , but it was not mandatory. That needed to change, according to Sarchett. Information about gender fluidity and identity also needed to be more freely available, although media coverage of transgender celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner had helped to spark the conversation, he said.
They have returned here twice to give birth because same-sex relationships are not recognised in the Asian island nation.
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It is illegal for men in Singapore to have sex, where the law states that a man who has "any act of gross indecency with another male person" shall be punished with imprisonment of up to two years. NZ is quite like paradise," Davies said.
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In Indonesia last year, two gay men aged 20 and 23 were sentenced and caned publicly in Aceh. In the capital Jakarta last May, men were arrested for participating in a "gay sex party" and a police raid at a sauna popular with gay men resulted in 51 arrests. Davies said the situation was getting "really really bad" and getting worse for LGBT people. There had been raids on private homes by police and even private security guards, Davies said. Davies said people now had to be very secretive about their same-sex relationships "in a way they have never had to before".
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Jufrie said his partner was arrested during a night raid by "religious security guards" at their home. He did not want to be identified for fear that his family in Indonesia could be targeted by fundamentalist Muslim groups.
Marriage is also in the plans for Bo and Liu, who are in New Zealand on work and student visas respectively. Bo first came from the Chinese province of Shanxi to Auckland in as an international student.