On This Day: 2nd January

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Mon 2 Jan 2023

Eagle Bar’s Wild NYE Party Pictures
Links: Express
Exclusive: Popular Wellington Gay Club Forced To Close Before Midnight on...
Links: Express
Hottest Pics From G.A.Y Auckland on NYE
Links: Express
Popular Wellington Gay Club Forced To Close Before Midnight on NYE
Links: Express

Sat 2 Jan 2021

The Year That Was 2020
Links: Express

Thu 2 Jan 2020

Jazz Jennings 'is proud' to share photos of her gender confirmation surgery scars
Transgender right activist and reality TV star Jazz Jennings reflected on 2019 with an empowering message about accepting herself from the inside out...
Links: Stuff

Tue 2 Jan 2018

1 x Double Ticket to QUEEN + Adam Lambert Show
Links: Express
1 x Double Ticket to The Pride Parade Grandstand
Links: Express
4 x Double Tickets to Auckland City Limits Festival
Links: Express

Mon 2 Jan 2017

Campers heading home from glbti campgrounds
Some campers are beginning to head away from the two main summer holiday camping areas which have been host to hundreds of glbti people in the Manawatu and Northland...
Links: GayNZ.com
Listen: James Leuii's mix for Summer 16/17
GayNZ...
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Sat 2 Jan 2016

Wellington waterfront walk tour (Wellington)
Take a self-guided circular walk tour around the Wellington waterfront and discover some historic rainbow sites
Features: Roger Smith
Links: PrideNZ.com
GayNZ.com New Year Dishonours for 2015
As we gaze optimistically into the new year let's not forget that in 2015 some folks did some really shite things to glbti folk, either individually or as a group...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Jan 2015

Grindr – The Things You Teach Us
Links: Express
New Year’s Eve – Uretiti Beach
Links: Express
Bangladesh: GLB people living in fear
A survey of more than 750 gay, lesbian and bisexual people in Bangladesh has found many are living in fear...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mum protects adult gay son from nude woman on TV
A 22-year-old gay man has posted a picture on Reddit of his mum holding a towel in front of the television to protect him from seeing a woman's breasts during a movie...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF nominated Smith for NY Honour
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has revealed it nominated Jonathan Smith for a New Year’s Honour for services to people with HIV/AIDS...
Links: GayNZ.com
Review: The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance and Alex Lawther Directed by: Morten Tyldum Now showing in theatres throughout New Zealand Alan Turing In a mystifying way the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game both glorifies Turing's homosexuality and airbrushes it out of the way...
Links: GayNZ.com
Use Leela's correct name, petition pleads
Nearly 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for the parents of Ohio teenager Leelah Alcorn to use her chosen name on her gravestone...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Jan 2014

Big Gay Out 2014 headliners revealed
Goodshirt are back together and making new music Reunited Kiwi band Goodshirt, dream-pop duo Kittens of the Internet and Lavina Williams of Ma-V-Elle fame will headline this year’s Big Gay Out...
Links: GayNZ.com
GayNZ.com 2013 New Year's Dishonours
Yes, it was a wonderful year, but there were still some people who got under our skin with their particular brands of judgement, disrespect and discrimination...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hateful laws remain in Presidents' hands
Yoweri Museveni and Goodluck Jonathan Nigeria and Uganda’s bills vicious anti-gay bills remain in the hands of their Presidents, who are deciding whether to sign them in to law...
Links: GayNZ.com
Staircase to be revived for one night only
The Auckland Pride Festival will open with a tribute to the past, with a reunion and revival party for ‘golden era’ venue Staircase...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Jan 2013

Camp medic is new Queen of Vinegar Hill
Continuing a decades-long tradition a new Queen of Vinegar Hill has been chosen during a night of revelry and entertainment on the banks of the Manawatu River to see in the New Year...
Links: GayNZ.com
Icelandic rights and democracy campaigner to visit
Hordur Torfason A gay man credited with turning Iceland on its head, in many ways, is coming to New Zealand for a speaking tour in March...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ prison escapee wanted for UK gay murder
A South African man, an escapee from Rangipo Prison in the central North Island, is wanted by UK police as the primary suspect in the killing of a gay man there...
Links: GayNZ.com
Stroking horses “cures” gays, Virginia church says
The “Cowboy Church of Virginia” has reportedly decided that stroking a horse can “cure” people from being gay...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 2 Jan 2012

Our 2011 New Year's dishonours
After awarding our GayNZ...
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Sun 2 Jan 2011

The 2010 GayNZ.com Dishonours
It's nice to report that it was much easier to decide on honours than dishonours in 2010, which surely shows it has been a pretty good year...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 2 Jan 2010

New Hampshire same sex couples rush to marry
Same sex couples have rushed to marry in New Hampshire after, at the stroke of the new year it became the fifth U...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF ramps up opposition to HIV self-test kits
"Serious concerns" about the efficacy and reliability of HIV rapid screen test offered to adult shops and some gay sex on site venues last year have been passed on to the government's medical device safety authority...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Jan 2009

New Year's Dishonours 2008/09
Welcome to the dark side, a place inhabited by people who sometimes just don't get it that glbt people are just like themselves, except for one aspect off our lives which doesn't actually affect them or their own lives in the slightest...
Links: GayNZ.com
Survivors: The End of Whose World?
Surviving: Anya, a young lesbian doctor The BBC has remade Survivors, the classic seventies SF series that dealt with the post-apocalyptic aftermath of a devastating mutant virus...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Jan 2008

Gay actor in New Year's honours list
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Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Jan 2007

Hot stuff at Vinegar Hill
A big bang, lots of smoke and then a huge amount of heat – this year's Vinegar Hill New Year's Eve bonfire was one to remember...
Links: GayNZ.com
Terrifying sex attack on Wellington man
Wellington police are hunting a man who subjected another man to a "prolonged and terrifying" sexual assault early on New Year's Day...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 2 Jan 2006

Bain Divine's Gay Auckland Venue Guide Pt3
GayNZ...
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Barrymore Back in UK
Michael Barrymore's promoters say he and his partner are back in Britain only for a short time, and plan to return to their home in New Zealand; quelling rumours that the pair have turned their backs on their new country...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 2 Jan 2005

Gay parent numbers double
Heterosexual marriages are crumbling in ever-increasing numbers, and once again its time for the moral right to blame the gay parents, whose numbers have nearly doubled in the past five years, according to new Statistics New Zealand research...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Jan 1997

Morals campaigner Keith Hay dies (Auckland, New Zealand)
Hay took a lead role in campaigning against homosexual law reform in 1985/86.
Links: Te Ara

Thu 2 Jan 1986

March Diary (Press, 2 January 1986)
In early March 1986, significant events unfolded in New Zealand and globally. On March 4, the New Zealand dollar experienced a devaluation of approximately 3.5 percent against the U.S. dollar as it began trading under a new floating exchange system. The same day, a devastating earthquake struck central Chile, resulting...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
The Sir Basil Arthur Story (Press, 2 January 1986)
Sir Basil Arthur's life story resembles that of a classic socialist novel, showcasing his rise from humble beginnings as a fisherman to achieving high political office as the Speaker of the House in New Zealand. His journey began at the age of 16 when he worked on fishing boats, followed...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Timaru Shoots Into Political Spotlight... (Press, 2 January 1986)
Timaru became a focal point in New Zealand politics following the death of Sir Basil Arthur, the long-serving Labour MP, on May 1, 1986. This led to a by-election on June 15, 1986, which saw a remarkable shift in voter sentiment. National Party candidate Maurice McTigue achieved a historical victory,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Artist Leo Bensemann dies (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Wed 2 Jan 1985

A.i.d.s. Insurance (Press, 2 January 1985)
On 2 January 1985, it was announced that insurance policies specifically covering Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) would be available for sale in California starting next month. The Coastal Insurance Company, based in Santa Monica, revealed plans to promote these policies through advertisements in magazines aimed at the homosexual community....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
London's Elderly Gays Surveyed (Press, 2 January 1985)
On 2 January 1985, the "Daily Mail" reported that social workers in London have been instructed by the Lambeth Council to investigate the sexual orientations of elderly individuals they visit. This directive comes from a working group focused on homosexual issues within the council, which is led by Mr Ted...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 2 Jan 1980

The 1970 S – 1. Life Style (Press, 2 January 1980)
On 2 January 1980, "The Press" began a retrospective series on the 1970s, leading with an article on lifestyle written by Leone Stewart. The decade is described as marked by notable social changes, particularly in family structures, gender roles, and attitudes toward sex. It reflects a shift towards hedonism and...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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