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Wed 22 Feb 2023

  • Exploring Provincetown, Cape Cod: America’s rainbow town
    For more than a century, Provincetown has attracted LGBTQI+ travellers from all over...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • LGBTQI+ travel: A gay guide to Zurich, Switzerland
    Zurich is anything but straight-laced...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Ava Max Joins Line-Up For Sydney WorldPride’s Official Closing Concert
    Links: Express
  • Sydney WorldPride: Qtopia – Sydney’s First LGBTQ+ Museum Launched
    Links: Express

Tue 22 Feb 2022

  • Transgender woman Doski Azad's 'honour killing' uncovers disturbing culture
    WARNING: DistressingDoski Azad had been in hiding from her own family...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • COMMUNITY GROUP OFFER DAILY DINNER GATHERING
    Links: Express
  • NZ’s Queer History: A Proud Past
    Links: Express
  • What Does Trans Pride Mean In 2022?
    Links: Express

Mon 22 Feb 2021

  • Guest Writer: Tom Sainsbury’s Guide To Love
    Links: Express
  • Out and About: Furry Friday February
    Links: Express
  • Prominent Businessman’s trial: Man Accuses Rich Lister of Groping Him
    Links: Express

Sat 22 Feb 2020

  • Namwali Serpell: Author of "The Old Drift"
    Praised by the likes of Salman Rushdie and Ali Smith, Namwali Serpell's debut novel The Old Drift reputedly took her nearly 20 years to write...
    Links: RNZ
  • Namwali Serpell: Author of The Old Drift
    Praised by the likes of Salman Rushdie and Ali Smith, Namwali Serpell's debut novel The Old Drift reputedly took her nearly 20 years to write...
    Links: RNZ

Fri 22 Feb 2019

  • Is ‘sex ed’ failing the #metoo generation?
    Navigating contemporary gender issues is complicated for young people, and New Zealand’s traditional sexuality education is not keeping up, according to a Canterbury education expert...
    Links: Scoop
  • Bird Of The Year: The Story Behind Bird On A Wire
    Links: Express

Thu 22 Feb 2018

  • Top boys' school builds unisex toilets for transgender students
    One of Auckland's top boys' schools has built a new unisex toilet block to cater for transgender students in the future...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Gay Athlete Makes Winter Olympics History After Kissing Partner On Live...
    Links: Express
  • Parkland Survivor Says Republicans Care More About “Rainbow Cake” Than Shootings
    Links: Express

Wed 22 Feb 2017

  • Gay Rower Robbie Manson Takes Out National Title
    Links: Express
  • Milo Yiannopoulos Loses Book Deal and Resigns from Breitbart News
    Links: Express
  • Queensland Committee Recommends Scrapping ‘Gay Panic’ Law
    Links: Express
  • Sky Tower Stands Tall for Rainbow Community
    Links: Express
  • Māori TV to make history at the Akl Pride Parade
    Māori Television is to become the very first New Zealand TV broadcaster to ever have a float in a Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Parson James is granted two year NZ visa
    The recent Big Gay Out in Auckland was not the last time we will be seeing Parson James here on our shores, the singer songwriter has been granted a two year work visa...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Pardon me Alan Turing
    It takes a lot of effort to create a period theatre production...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The origins of Gay Pride
    With Auckland Pride drawing to a close and Wellington Pride starting on March 3rd it's worth reflecting on the origins and history of the glbti Pride movement...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Trump tipped to annul trans student protections
    New guidelines regarding the use of bathrooms by transgender students are being drafted by the Trump administration...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 22 Feb 2016

  • Former Body Positive CEO Bruce Kilmister Returns as Chair of the...
    Links: Express
  • Allegations of assault during parade protest
    No pride in Prisons have made allegations that Police caused injury to three protesters during the Auckland Pride Parade on Saturday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NPIP always intended to disrupt parade
    No Pride in Prisons say it was always their intention to disrupt the Auckland Pride Parade on Saturday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NSW to apologise to first Mardi Gras participants
    NSW State Government is to issue an official apology to participants of the very first Sydney Mardi Gras who were ill-treated by Police at the time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pride unaware of assault allegations from NPIP
    Vinnie Sykes, Co-Chair of the Auckland Pride Festival Board, says Pride have not been contacted by anyone from protest group NPIP to raise concerns that protesters were injured by Police during the parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The Auckland Pride Parade pt3
    [Reader hint: read part one and part two of our reporters' impressions of the Auckland Pride Parade 2016...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • “Protest made parade even better” says Ak Pride
    Co-Chair of the Auckland Pride Festival Board, Vinnie Sykes, says the No Pride in Prisons protest, which disrupted the parade, “made the parade even better”...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 22 Feb 2015

  • George - Butch on Butch (Wellington)
    George talks about wanting to be part of a conversation about female masculinity and what Butch means.
    Features: George Mapplebeck
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Stevei - Butch on Butch (Wellington)
    Stevei talks about identifying as wahine toa, representing New Zealand in softball and creating art.
    Features: unidentified voice(s)
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP456193.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Auckland Pride Parade 2015 – Part 1
    Links: Express
  • Auckland Pride Parade 2015 – Part 2
    Links: Express
  • Auckland Pride Parade 2015 – Part 3
    Links: Express
  • Foodie Bites – Eden Asian
    Links: Express
  • Opinion: Rude and Reckless Pride Protestors a Sad Sight
    Links: Express
  • Post Pride Parade 2015 – Eagle Bar
    Links: Express
  • Post Pride Parade 2015 – Family Bar and Club
    Links: Express
  • Co-chair refutes allegations against Pride
    Megan Cunningham-Evans A co-chair of the Auckland Pride Festival Trust is refuting a claim that the organisation is "racist, classist and cis-based" in nature...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Natural Law: Homophobia's Iron Curtain
    I used to review anti-gay literature regularly in this column and its predecessors, but as with Christian Right antigay initiatives itself, the despicable genre seems to be dying...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Parade director disappointed by protest
    The director of the Auckland Pride Parade has expressed disappointment that a protest group “chose to use the Auckland Pride Parade as an opportunity to broadcast their message”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Police to probe claims of brutality
    UPDATED: Police say they will investigate the injuries a protestor received at last night’s Auckland Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Queer group says it pinkwashed GAYTM
    UPDATED: A group called “Queers Against Injustice” has claimed responsibility for hurling paint at an ANZ ‘GAYTM’ which was installed on Ponsonby Rd for Auckland Pride Festival...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 22 Feb 2014

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Tagata Pasifika, ref: TZP443264.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP442541.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • 10AM: Ak Parade will be on "rain or shine"
    Ponsonby Road from the Hopetoun corner 10...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Activist slams Israeli Embassy Pride float
    Marchers in a gay pride parade in Israel A veteran political activist has hit out at the Israeli Embassy's presence in this evening's Auckland Pride Parade, and is urging attendees to give those joining their float "a hard time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Anti-Israel protesters ejected from parade
    Security guards push the protesters off the road and behind barricades A group of mostly women protesters had to be physically bundled off the parade route by security and police as this evening's Pride Parade started its way down inner-city Ponsonby Road...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Big crowd and marchers ready for Parade
    Defence Force members prepare to march Dozens of floats and hundreds if not thousands of participants are lined up at the start of tonight's Auckland Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Dawson found dead in Sydney home
    Glbti community friend and anti-bullying campaigner Charlotte Dawson has been found dead in her Sydney home...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hulse: Parade celebrated special people
    Hulse (l) looks on as Mayor Len Brown cuts the ribbon to start the parade Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse says she is absolutely thrilled with this evening's Pride Parade, describing the parade participants and the glbti communities as some of the city's "special people...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pride Parade participation a family affair
    The Aarons Family: Danni, Tallulah (dog) Amanda, Gavin and Josh An Auckland mum says her family is so proud of her gay son, all four members are getting involved in the Auckland Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Yes, Pam Ann was Plane Filthy!
    The temperature has already gone through the roof on the biggest weekend of the Auckland Pride Festival thanks to an outrageous, hilarious and utterly scandalous show by Pam Ann...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 22 Feb 2013

  • Another attack on K' Rd increases anger
    The K Rd and Hereford Street corner As a meeting is about to be held about concerns about the safety of our community in Auckland’s K’ Road area, another gay man has been attacked...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Funding application made for AKL Pride 2014
    As Auckland’s Pride Festival hurtles toward its finale weekend, moves are already being made to ensure it will return in 2014...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Joan Jett to play show in Auckland in April
    Lesbian icon Joan Jett is coming to Auckland in April for a one-off show with British glam rock band The Darkness...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marriage Equality: Alternative Americas?
    What relationships do either side of the marriage equality debate have with the United States? It's more complicated than one might think...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Newspaper claims gay link to Pope's resignation
    Pope Benedict XVI Italian media are claiming that the Catholic Pope's sudden resignation two weeks ago was in part spurred by a confidential internal report he commissioned which claimed, among other things, that gays within the Vatican exercise undue influence and have indulged in sexual gatherings...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Q-Topia's Harlem Shake!
    The crew from Christchurch queet youth group Q-Youth have done their own version of the latest online fad, the Harlem Shake! Q-Topia - 22nd February 2013...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The Plight of being Transgender in NZ
      The year was 1963; I was looking to experience what the world beyond the Coronation street lifestyle the country of my birth had to offer...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Winners of NZAF charity dating raffle drawn
    Chris Olwage and his date are jumping off the Sky Tower! The winners have been drawn in the New Zealand AIDS Foundation's Date4Good raffle, with six people winning dates with some stunning gay men...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Feb 2012

  • [name withheld 3] - Q12 (Auckland)
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • "Reverse prison policy" Rainbow Wgtn urges
    File photo Rainbow Wellington has asked Corrections Minister Anne Tolley to reverse a policy placing transgender inmates in the prison which matches the sex of their birth, unless the prisoners have had gender reassignment surgery...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • A year on
    Christchurch’s glbt residents will mark one year since the quake that broke the city’s heart in different ways today...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gillard admits change is “inevitable”
    Julia Gillard A lesbian couple who dined with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard last night says she admitted moves to legalise same-sex marriage are inevitable...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Feb 2011

  • Quake Live: 3.25pm: Venues massively damaged
    Photo: Reuters 4...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quake Live: 5.11PM: Chch's glbt "heart ripped out"
    Photo: Mark Mitchell Glbt venue owners around the country are expressing sympathy for the owners and staff of Christchurch's devastated venues, which one terms "the heart of Christchurch's glbt communities...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 22 Feb 2010

  • Bear NZ week kicks off with Kamo BBQ
    A crowd of bears raised their glasses - and sausages - to toast the start of NZ's first-ever Bear Week yesterday at a BBQ in K' Road's Kamo bar...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Book review: Dirty White Boy - Tales of Soho
    Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho By Clayton Littlewood, published by Cleis Press Order online through Amazon Books 'What's that book?' he asked, nodding towards the bedside table, as we made the bed...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Paul Henry's "gays unnatural" remark OK by BSA
    New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled TVOne's Breakfast show host Paul Henry's comments that gays are "unnatural" are not a form of hate speech...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Unique pair will fly pink to Mardi Gras
    Shaun McKinney and Anna Nelson will fly on this Friday's Air New Zealand Pink Flight to Sydney Mardi Gras, thanks to a peer support network which realises "sometimes all it takes is a common experience to realise that you are not as unique as you think...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 22 Feb 2009

  • Ponsonby event to "replace Hero Parade"
    A new street party in Auckland's Ponsonby aims to be a cross between London's Notting Hill carnival and Rio De Janeiro's famous Mardi Gras - building to a similar size to the Hero Parades of years gone by...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Price chop for Air NZ Pink Flight
    Air New Zealand is running a special this week on its Pink Flight to Sydney Mardi Gras on Friday 6 March - chopping $130 off the price, so that seats are now only $199...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Safety issues force Wigs postponement
    11...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Top 10 tips for GayNZ.com's Forum
    Our Forum is always buzzing with news and views from around LGBT Aotearoa - and we want you to get the most out of it...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 22 Feb 2008

  • "HIV data collection must be secured"-NZAF
    Adding HIV to the Ministry of Health's list of notifiable conditions will help create an "HIV census", ensuring that anonymous data collection on New Zealand's HIV and AIDS epidemic is secured for the future, says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF)...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Bring on the blogs!
    Beginning today, four very different LGBT New Zealand writers are ready to amuse, surprise, educate and at times unsettle you in GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Israeli MP blames gays for earthquakes
    An Israeli parliamentarian says that several earthquakes felt in Israel recently were a consequence of gays and the parliament's acceptance of them...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Poster Boy "unsafe sex within relationship"
    9AM: A young Wellington man in his late teens appears to be the person who triggered public allegations that one of the NZ AIDS Foundation's Safe Sex Poster Boys has been engaging in unsafe sex since signing up to help front the NZAF's current safe sex campaign...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rainbow Youth's two little words of power
    Jennifer and Daniel at the Big Gay Out You may have noticed the bright pink 'Homo!' and 'Lesbo!' leaflets during Auckland's Big Gay Out this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 22 Feb 2007

  • Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Tagata Pasifika, ref: TZP333582.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Are BZP party pills a problem?
    When a bundle of Auckland Hero Festival 2007 guide booklets arrived at gay nightclub Cruz in Christchurch, club owner Bruce Williamson sent them right back to where they came from...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Beyer's withdrawal cancels stage show
    11AM: Dunedin's Fortune Theatre has just announced that due to the withdrawal of Georgina Beyer from the production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the season has been cancelled, barely 24 hours before it was due to open tomorrow night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • ChCh: Miss Mole to find a
    Seven fabulous contestants are gearing up to compete for the title of ‘Mr Spunky Hunk 2007', says gay Christchurch's ever-outrageous MC Miss Mole...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Polish leader angers Irish LGBT groups
    Irish lawmakers and rights groups criticised Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Wednesday after he said during a state visit that "the human race would disappear" if homosexuality were freely promoted...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Spicehammer: 'gay nights' finished
    Wellington club ‘Spicehammer' is open again this week, but there are no plans to continue their ‘Fabulous and Gay Friday' events...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Feb 2006

  • Brokeback delayed in small towns
    Critically acclaimed and internationally controversial film Brokeback Mountain has been released in New Zealand, but questions are being asked why it is missing from the schedule in many small towns...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Feb 2005

  • Report: Heroes and Heroines of the World Unite
    When the phone call came from the organisers of the second annual Great Auckland Central Hero Debate asking me to participate, my brain hit the panic button...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 22 Feb 2002

  • The Minister of Health Annette King opens the new Awhina Centre (Wellington, New Zealand)
    The Awhina Centre is the New Zealand AIDS Foundation's Wellington Regional Office.
    Links: Beehive.govt.nz

Sun 22 Feb 1998

Sat 22 Feb 1997

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One Network News, ref: TZP180651.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • The HERO parade takes place (Auckland, New Zealand)
    The parade runs from Crummer Road, into Ponsonby Road and then down to Three Lamps. It's broadcast on TV3.
    Links: New Zealand AIDS Quilt

Wed 22 Feb 1989

  • Why Salman Rushdie’s Book Has Stirred Muslims To... (Press, 22 February 1989)
    The controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" escalated significantly following a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeiny of Iran in February 1989, calling for Rushdie's execution for blasphemy. This directive sent shockwaves through both the Muslim world and the secular West, prompting widespread horror and outrage. The book, though...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 22 Feb 1988

  • Baby Named After Perfume (Press, 22 February 1988)
    On 22 February 1988, gossip columnist David Hartnell shared an array of celebrity tidbits, revealing insights into the lives of various stars. One notable piece of information was that singer Olivia Newton-John named her baby Chloe after the perfume she wore when she first met her husband, Matt Lattanzi. Reflecting...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sun 22 Feb 1987

  • Artist Andy Warhol dies (New York, United States of America)
    Links: Wikipedia

Wed 22 Feb 1984

  • Television: New Zealand experts react to American doctor's claims that the Hepatitis B vaccine being used in New Zealand has links with AIDS (New Zealand)
    ref: TZP115040.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 22 Feb 1983

  • Love Scene Too Early (Press, 22 February 1983)
    On 22 February 1983, the Broadcasting Tribunal announced its decision regarding a complaint filed by the Society for the Protection of Community Standards concerning a segment from the "Closeup" television programme. Broadcast on 28 July 1982, the segment included a homosexual love scene that aired shortly after 8 p.m. The...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 22 Feb 1980

  • Another protest march takes place against the police raids on the Westside Sauna and OUT! Magazine (Auckland, New Zealand)

Tue 22 Feb 1977

  • Indecency Charge Defended (Press, 22 February 1977)
    On 22 February 1977, a hearing was held regarding indecent publication charges against Michael Stephen Waghorne, a former editor of the Gay Liberation Front newsletter "Aequus." Waghorne, 33 years old and an assistant management services officer for the Department of Health, faced a charge for printing an article he purportedly...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 22 Feb 1974

  • Court Upholds Dismissal (Press, 22 February 1974)
    On 21 February 1974, the New Jersey Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of Paula Grossman, a 54-year-old schoolteacher from Bernards Township, who had undergone male-to-female sex-change surgery in 1971. The ruling stated that her presence in the school could pose "a potential for psychological harm to the students". Prior...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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