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On This Day: 25th February

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Sat 25 Feb 2023

  • Out and About Sydney WorldPride: Live and Proud Opening Concert
    Links: Express

Fri 25 Feb 2022

  • Pride Month: Transgender rugby player opens up about barriers
    Kane Weatherup always wanted to play rugby growing up, but didn’t think it was possible for a trans person to play...
    Links: Stuff
  • Pride Month: Transgender rugby player opens up about barriers
    Kane Weatherup always wanted to play rugby growing up, but didn’t think it was possible for a trans person to play...
    Links: Stuff
  • Brady Peeti: Nurturing Trans Talent
    Links: Express
  • K Road’s Bars Eagle and G.A.Y Closed This Weekend
    Links: Express
  • LGBTQ+ Ukrainians Urge Governments To ‘Stand Up And Take Action’ Against...
    Links: Express
  • Lontalius’ Queer Romance With Music
    Links: Express

Thu 25 Feb 2021

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene hangs 'sickening' sign outside office of colleague with a transgender child
    Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is at the centre of yet another controversy in the United States today after hanging a "sickening" sign outside the office of a Democratic colleague...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Fashion Powerhouse Te Manahou Mackay
    Links: Express
  • Is This The Most Romantic Trek New Zealand Has To Offer?
    Links: Express
  • The Auckland Rainbow Dog Show – Woof!
    Links: Express

Tue 25 Feb 2020

  • Boy asks Pete Buttigieg to help him tell the world he's gay
    Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has given some emotional advice to a 9-year-old boy who asked how he could tell the world he is gay...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Episode 11
    Alex and Bella chat about their experience submitting to the Youth Parliament select committee on making schools safer for LGBTQIA+ students and some of their favourite acts of self care! ...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Episode 11
    Alex and Bella chat about their experience submitting to the Youth Parliament select committee on making schools safer for LGBTQIA+ students and some of their favourite acts of self care! ...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Episode 12
    Cathy and Ellen talk about some of the queer literature and film that influenced them while they were discovering their sexualities...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Episode 12
    Cathy and Ellen talk about some of the queer literature and film that influenced them while they were discovering their sexualities...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Episode 13
    Alex discusses an incident of transphobia from Auckland Transport, our upcoming Day of Silence campaign and plays some tunes! ...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Episode 13
    Alex discusses an incident of transphobia from Auckland Transport, our upcoming Day of Silence campaign and plays some tunes! ...
    Links: InsideOUT
  • Mum's heartbreaking letter to gay son
    A mother has shared the heartbreaking letter she wrote to her youngest son to apologise for her reaction when he came out as gay...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Family Bar and Club | Out and About Friday 21 Feb...
    Links: Express
  • Hannah Tamaki Dumped From Dancing With the Stars
    Links: Express
  • What’s On At Pride Whanganui 2020
    Links: Express
  • WOOF! The Auckland Rainbow Dog Show
    Links: Express

Mon 25 Feb 2019

  • Minister for Internal Affairs Tracey Martin defers the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Bill (New Zealand)
    The Minister wanted to give people more opportunities to submit on the proposed changes as well as seek clarification on legal issues relating to gender self-identification.
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Warren Butler dies (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Butler was heavily involved with the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt in the 1990s
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Bill making it easier for trans people to update birth certificate deferred
    A bill that would make it easier for trans people to change to change their gender on birth certificates had been deferred due to poor public consultation and legal concerns...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Lee Suckling: Links to sexuality and weight found in new study
    Lee Suckling shares his own struggle with an eating disorder and draws on personal experience to explain what he believes is behind new findings...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Q + A - Monday February 25
    A law change working its way through Parliament will make it easier for people to change genders on their birth certificate...
    Links: Scoop
  • Conversion Therapy Ban Called For By Minister of Health in Germany
    Links: Express
  • Woof, Woof, Woof! Meet the Dog’s and the Brains Behind Woof...
    Links: Express

Sun 25 Feb 2018

  • Rainbow elders panel (2018) (17-19 Tory Street)
    Audio from the Rainbow elders panel, held during Wellingtons Pride festival at 19 Tory Street on 25 February 2018
    Features: Amanduh la Whore, Colin Daley, Georgina Beyer, Kay Jones, Maggie Shippam, Mani Bruce Mitchell, Prue Hyman, Rosie Leadbitter
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Aussie call for Commonwealth Games ban on transgender weightlifter 'game playing'
    New Zealand sporting bigwigs are backing Kiwi transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, after the boss of Australian weightlifting called for her to be banned from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games...
    Links: Stuff
  • Mystery deepens in serial killer probe after six dismembered bodies found
    The mystery deepened this week in the case of Bruce McArthur, the Canadian man charged with killing several middle-aged men linked to Toronto's Gay Village and burying dismembered body parts in landscape planters...
    Links: Stuff
  • Out in the Park draws 10,000-plus to celebrate start of Wellington Pride Festival
    It started when being gay was illegal, now it's drawing crowds of more than 10,000 people who enjoy hanging out, chilling out, and just living out...
    Links: Stuff
  • TVNZ reporter ties the knot in 'big gay Indian wedding'
    TV newsman Arrun Soma has married his long-term partner in what he described as a "big gay Indian wedding" in Wellington on Saturday...
    Links: Stuff

Thu 25 Feb 2016

  • Sian Torrington - We Dont Have To Be The Building (Wellington)
    Sian talks about the art project We Dont Have To Be The Building.
    Features: Sian Torrington
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Brexit: Is There An LGBT Perspective?
    In June 2016, the United Kingdom will hold a national referendum against continued British membership of the twenty eight nation European Union...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Comment: The Auckland PRide Parade
    This year’s Auckland Pride Parade was promoted as a celebration...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • InsideOUT announce national youth hui
    LGBTI youth organisation InsideOUT has announced their national hui, Shift, will be running again this April...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Israel approves use of PrEP
    Israel has approved the use of daily HIV medication, PrEP, with the government now considering how best to roll out the drug...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NPIP to host community forum this Saturday
    No Pride in Prisons is hosting a ‘Fuck Pride Forum’ this coming Saturday to openly discuss the problems the group wishes to address within the LGBTI community and wider society...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Valentine and Valentine:
    Five same-sex love letters from history Throughout history love letters have been sent between some our most famous writers and their same-sex admirers, from Oscar Wilde to Virgina Woolf, Alexander Lowë takes a look at those romantic words penned...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Feb 2015

  • Foodie Bites – Turkish Treats
    Links: Express
  • Out In The Park to be Held on 28th – 29th...
    Links: Express
  • Two Dads Able to Make a Baby? It May Now be...
    Links: Express
  • Chargers full of thanks after semi-final
    Touch team the LYC Chargers have thanked all their supporters after their hard-fought semi-final on Monday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Club Q announces its 'last hurrah' party
    Palmerston North’s Club Q is closing down, and will go out with a final farewell party this Saturday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Most parade feedback was good - Kaye
    Nikki Kaye says she’s received more support than negativity about National marching in the Auckland Pride Parade for the first time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Protestors want GABA Pres to resign
    The group which led the protest at Saturday’s Auckland Pride Parade is now calling for the President of the Gay Auckland Business Association to resign...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wall in Thailand for lgbti rights dialogue
    Louisa Wall (right) with Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse at Saturday's Auckland Pride Parade Louisa Wall is in Thailand taking part in a regional discussion on lgbti rights...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Feb 2014

  • Conan McKegg profile (Wellington)
    Conan McKegg talks about writing for the screen and working on the draft script for House of Memories
    Features: Conan McKegg
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Television item (United States of America)
    One News, ref: TZP442785.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Rainbow Wellington seeking new blood
    Rainbow Wellington will take to the public library for its AGM this year, and is calling for nominations for new board members...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Uganda's President signs hateful gay law
    Yoweri Museveni Uganda's president has signed harsh new anti-gay laws into effect, something which is being described as “a dramatic blow to freedom expression and association”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Why I marched in Pride
    NZ Falcon Mike Horrell has kindly shared his touching explanation of why he decided to march in the Auckland Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Feb 2013

  • Auckland Pride Fest: in pictures
    As we all recover from the Auckland Pride Festival, here are some of our very favourite moments, in pictures, for you to enjoy...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Exhausted Pride coordinator expresses gratitude
    More than 1,300 people attended the performance-packed Proud party on Saturday night The delighted but shattered coordinator of the Auckland Pride Festival has taken time out from catching up on sleep to thank all those who put so many hours into making it a success...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Men Like Us released on DVD/for download
    A documentary which tells the funny, heart-breaking and inspiring stories of nine gay New Zealand men has been released on DVD and for digital download...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Feb 2012

  • The Queer Avengers take on transphobia
    The Queer Avengers led a protest against an anti-trans opinion piece in the Dominion Post at the Fairfax offices in Wellington...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Feb 2011

  • Family Downunder hosting London DJ
    A London drag DJ will take hold of the decks at Auckland's Family Downunder tonight...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hateful quake website suspended by host
    A hateful website which blames gay men and lesbians for the utter devastation and heartbreak of the Christchurch quake has been suspended...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Never forget this moment
    NZ Army medics provide support at the PGG building in Christchurch after the Earthquake - NZ Defence Force...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quake advice and asistance for HIV+ people
    A Christchurch HIV positive people's advocate is offering to assist those with medication access problems created by the turmoil of the disastrous earthquake...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Teachers sue over classroom sex claim
    Two foreign language teachers are suing the city of New York for $2 million after they were fired over allegations they had sex in a classroom during a school talent show...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Young Indian men outed in TV sting
    A young Indian man has attempted suicide after his parents saw him outed on an Indian TV news report broadcast in Hyderabad...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Feb 2010

  • 'Oral sex' anti-smoking ads shock France
    A new anti-smoking campaign is upsetting some French commentators by linking lighting up with oral sex...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Queen of Universe pageant needs more queens
    The creator of New Zealand's highest-profile drag pageant The Queen of the Whole Universe says he's sure this November's show will be another record-breaker, and is keen to get as many beautiful 'girls' involved as possible...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Auckland's OurFest 2010
    The year is 2010...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Feb 2009

  • Hawaii: 2,000 rally to oppose Civil Unions
    In a surprise turnout, more than 2,000 people rallied in the centre of Hawaii's capitol Honolulu at the weekend to protest a bill that would allow civil unions between same-sex partners...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Ron Brown murder trial set for June
    Hungarian tourist Ferdinand Ambach, accused of killing of gay Onehunga man Ron Brown in December 2007, will face a jury trial at Auckland's High Court, beginning on Monday 22 June...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Feb 2008

  • Poster Boy accuser was "used and betrayed"
    4...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Poster Boy claim "untrue and based on spite"
    2...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney's Archbishop opposes Civil Unions
    The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell has again spoken out against moves towards Civil Unions in Australia, saying he would strongly oppose any proposal that equates homosexuality with with marriage of a man and a woman...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Feb 2007

  • Television news report: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh claims to have found a cure for HIV/AIDS
    TV3 news, ref F97881.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
  • 'Gay sources' added to Parade outing
    7...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hero parade tipped to return in 2008
    Last night's Hero party at Auckland's St...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hero rattled by Parade announcement
    2...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • PR company leaked Hero Parade story
    5...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rockstar Supernova star tours New Zealand
    Patrice Pike (photo: Brian Chilson) Patrice Pike's appearances on rocking reality TV show ‘Rockstar Supernova' last year left the band ‘Supernova' stunned...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Who will MC at the Wellington Fair?
    There are some very big shoes to fill at Wellington's 22nd Annual Gay and Lesbian Fair, taking place at the end of the Newtown Festival on Saturday 10th March at Newtown School...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Feb 2006

  • Section 59: A Social Conservative Retreat?
    Have LGBT community efforts led to a considerablely weakened Christian Right effort against Sue Bradford's Section 59 Repeal Bill? What does this have to do with us, one might ask...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tamahori sentenced for drag
    New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori has been sentenced after police arrested him in Hollywood dressed in drag on charges of prostitution and loitering...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Feb 2005

  • Defactos slow return of Relationships Bill
    The Relationships Bill, which will confer on couples in civil unions the same rights and responsbilities of married couples, is set to return to Parliament in the next few weeks but the controversy has moved away from same-sex couples to the status of defactos...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Former Menfriends staffer sentenced
    11AM: A former staffer at Menfriends in Christchurch has been sentenced to six months jail after pleading guilty to theft of nearly $20,000 in cash, food and stock from his employers over a ten-month period...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • UniQ Otago's Nathan Brown
    Nathan Brown The face of the AIDS Foundation's "Negative Role Model" campaign, Nathan is a tireless worker for the GLBT communities in Otago...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Feb 2003

  • Hundreds of haircuts benefit Herne Bay House
    304 haircuts donated by twenty two Auckland hair salons have raised over $24,000 for Herne Bay House...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Feb 1999

Wed 25 Feb 1987

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    6:30pm News, ref: TZP40913.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news report: AIDS causes a review of health requirements for potential immigrants (New Zealand)
    Interviewee Kerry Burke. 6.30pm news, ref F92342.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Thu 25 Feb 1982

  • A Disneyland About People (Press, 25 February 1982)
    On 25 February 1982, a review of the television show "Dynasty" highlighted the show's high-profile introduction on Channel One, where it debuted with a lengthy two-hour and 35-minute pilot. The review portrayed "Dynasty" as a quintessential soap opera, characterised by its extravagant themes and melodramatic elements that resonated with viewers...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 25 Feb 1981

  • Youth Imprisoned For Extortion (Press, 25 February 1981)
    A 19-year-old from Blenheim was sentenced to 18 months in jail for extortion in the High Court at Blenheim. Murray John Wilson pleaded guilty to charges of extorting $500 and $200 from a local businessman by threatening to expose a past homosexual relationship between them. The extortion allegations surfaced after...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 25 Feb 1965

  • Casement’s Bones Sent To Eire (Press, 25 February 1965)
    On 24 February 1965, the British government facilitated the long-awaited return of the remains of Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was executed for high treason 49 years prior. His bones, long buried at Pentonville Prison in London, were exhumed and transported to Dublin, where they will lie in...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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