On This Day: 14th May

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Sat 14 May 2022

Theology student will continue fight to have sexual orientation protected from hate speech
A theology student's bid to have sexual orientation protected from hate speech after a pastor ordered gay people to be shot has been dismissed, but he's not giving up...
Links: NZ Herald

Fri 14 May 2021

Why Laurel Hubbard can compete at the Tokyo Olympics when Caster Semenya can't
EXPLAINER: While the NZ weightlifter is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics, the two-times champion in the women’s 800m is barred from defending her title...
Links: Stuff
China González: “Freedom Inspires Freedom”
Links: Express
Puberty Blockers: Cruelty or Kindness?
Links: Express

Thu 14 May 2020

'This virus may never go away' - WHO
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organisation says, warning against any attempt to predict how long it will stay in circulation...
Links: RNZ
Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie
South Korea has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases, traced to the Itaewon district which has popular nightclubs, that are locally referred to as gay clubs...
Links: RNZ
States Must Include LGBT Community In COVID-19 Response: The How And Why From A UN Expert
Governments worldwide must ensure COVID-19 emergency measures do not worsen inequalities or structural barriers faced by people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, or lead to increased violence and discrimination against them, a UN expert ...
Links: Scoop
RainbowYOUTH Launches New Online Support Service
Links: Express
Republican Congressman Set To Loose Seat Following Officiating Same-Sex Wedding
Links: Express
Sydney Man Charged Over 1988 Gay Hate Murder
Links: Express

Tue 14 May 2019

Andy Brennan becomes first Australian male footballer to come out as gay
Former Newcastle player says huge weight off his shoulders after breaking a football barrier in Australia...
Links: Stuff
Australian PM admits gay people don't go to hell
The leaders of both of Australia's major political parties agreed on Tuesday that gays don't go to hell because of their sexual orientation, as Christian beliefs rose to extraordinary prominence in the final days of an election campaign...
Links: NZ Herald
Cult movie The Full Monty brought to life on musical stage in Wellington
"The issues of sexuality, self image, unemployment, prejudice, depression are probably more relevant now than ever before...
Links: Stuff
Ireland Says No To Hate Banning Homophobic Preacher Steven Anderson
Links: Express
Sartorial Style with Attitude: Belinda Nash Talks With Model Zac Macfarlane
Links: Express
The Return Of The Auckland Pride Parade
Links: Express
Transgender People Forced To Conduct Self-Surgery In China
Links: Express

Mon 14 May 2018

Sam Smith Releases New Music Video for ‘Pray’
Links: Express
Students Stand-up to Anti-Gay Religious Bigotry in Private South African School
Links: Express

Sun 14 May 2017

Accusation: Mortuary denigration of dead gays
Staff of Auckland City Hospital's mortuary are alleged to have been disrespecting the bodies of dead people in their care including making disparaging comments about people known to to be homosexual, according to a front page article in today's Herald On Sunday...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 May 2016

Agender president resigns, sets up new group
Lynda Whitehead has announced her resignation as President of Agender and has formed a new trans support and advocacy organisation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Germany may return some refugees to anti-gay states
Germany may soon pass a law that would consider three North African countries, known for their anti-LGBTI laws, as safe, meaning asylum seekers will have applications rejected unless they are able to produce evidence proving their persecution...
Links: GayNZ.com
More than marriage
On Thursday the Anglican Church’s governing body in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia effectively decided to continue to ignore the lives and relationships of sexual and gender minorities, and to hope we would go away...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 14 May 2015

Big Business Backing Marriage Equality in Ireland
Links: Express
Christian Group in Tonga Tell “Immoral and Evil” GLBT Activists to...
Links: Express
Foodie Bites: Our Market Stall of The Month!
Links: Express
Gambian President to Gay Men: “I will Slit Your Throat”
Links: Express
"Evil" lgbti advocates told to "leave Tonga"
A group from a Tongan church group are protesting an lgbti rights conference in the nation, telling “evil” and “immoral” lgbti rights advocates to “go home”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Blanchett reveals relationships with women
UPDATE: Cate Blachett was actually misquoted Australian actress Cate Blanchett has revealed she has had "many" relationships with women...
Links: GayNZ.com
Comment: Don't Stop Hillary
It looks as if Hillary Rodham Clinton will end up winning the Democrat presidential nomination in 2016 and may well end up as the United States' first female President...
Links: GayNZ.com
Memorials to mark past, and look to future
AIDS Candlelight Memorial services will be held across the country this Sunday, beginning with a commemorative event at Te Papa in where Michael Kirby will speak...
Links: GayNZ.com
Opinion: It's not about banter - it's about bullying
The recent publication of the Out on the Fields study of homophobia in sport in English-speaking countries has highlighted what sexual and gender minorities know all too well: homophobia is alive and well and living in our communities...
Links: GayNZ.com
Public memorial announced for Jack Body
A public memorial service for Jack Body will be held at Wellington’s St Andrew's on The Terrace on Sunday 24 May...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans 201 – documentation change
Allyson Hamblett discusses the ongoing issues with documentation changes still impacting some transgender people in New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 14 May 2014

Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP445896.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Te Karere, ref: TZP445890.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Conchita wins Eurovision in Wellington?!
Links: Express
Express introduces… La Gateau Chocolat
Links: Express
Jess Holly Bates
Links: Express
Anglicans take "tiny, disappointing" step
Peter Lineham Today's decision by the Anglican Synod to move towards blessing same-sex relationships is a "tiny, tiny step forward" which one of the country's foremost observers and historians of religion finds "disappointing...
Links: GayNZ.com
Anglicans to "explore ways" to bless gays
The Anglican Church of New Zealand and Polynesia has announced it will “explore ways that the blessing of same gender relationships could be part of Church life”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Blood ban to be cut from five years to one
File Photo The New Zealand Blood Service has accepted a recommendation to cut the stand down time for gay and bisexual men giving blood from five years to 12 months after they last had anal or oral sex with another man...
Links: GayNZ.com
Church offers apology to lgbt community
The Anglican Church has apologised for pain it has caused New Zealand’s lgbt community by being “complicit in homophobic thinking and actions of society”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Crunch day arrives for Anglican Church
File Photo A draft proposal on the blessing and ordination of people in same-sex relationships is scheduled to be voted on at the Anglican General Synod in Waitangi today...
Links: GayNZ.com
GALS to celebrate all things Kiwi in 2014
Auckland’s Gay and Lesbian Singers (GALS) will celebrate their 22nd year with a Made in New Zealand concert, and a trip to Dublin...
Links: GayNZ.com
Kuwait's vice squad raids 'gay' party
Special Kuwaiti police have arrested 32 people after they raided a livestock farm to bust an alleged “gay” party...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF supports blood deferral decision
Shaun Robinson The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is backing a cut in the time gay and bisexual men have to wait to give blood, since they were last sexually active...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZers feature in Human Rights conf
Louisa Wall A number of New Zealanders feature in the Darwin Outgames’ Human Rights Forum, which begins today...
Links: GayNZ.com
Send a Kiwi ref to the Bingham Cup!
Ref Jack Cottrell and his whistle would love to be part of the Bingham Cup in Sydney in August...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 14 May 2013

Former NZAF counsellor to face trial in 2014
Silipa Take A man accused of indecent assault stemming from his time as a counsellor at the Wellington branch of the NZ AIDS Foundation will face trial in April of next year...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gone Not Forgotten
Musician Edward Ewbank performs a song which pays tribute to gay teenager Hayden Miles, who was brutally murdered in Christchurch...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hong Kong: trans woman wins battle to marry
Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal The highest court in Hong Kong has granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend, citing laws in New Zealand and other Asia Pacific nations as a factor in its decision...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lodge attacks laws protecting GLBTI rights
The lodge which turned a lesbian couple away is making itself out to be a crusader against ‘unjust laws’ and politicians who ‘legislate against morality’...
Links: GayNZ.com
Musician's tribute song welcomed by Miles family
Gone Not Forgotten is a tribute to Hayden Miles A gay New Zealand musician is touched that a song he wrote in tribute to Christchurch murder victim Hayden Miles has “meant a lot” to the teenager's family...
Links: GayNZ.com
Out Takes preview: Frauensee
The opening night women’s film for Out Takes 2013 is Frauensee, a ‘high voltage’ German feature revolving around four women at the aptly named Women’s Lake...
Links: GayNZ.com
Salsa classes get a sultry same-sex spin
Fancy a bit of same-sex Salsa? If you have ever wanted to try Salsa, but couldn’t find anywhere you could dance with someone of the same-sex, you are in luck...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Marriage momentum hits Minnesota
Minnesota will become the 12th US state to introduce marriage equality...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wall hits out at lodge's attempt at justification
Louisa Wall: "Their personal views are their own business except when they choose to exercise them in circumstances that run foul of the law of this country...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 14 May 2012

Marg Curnow - Older Lesbians (Wellington)
Marg Curnow talks about growing older and the Lesbian Elders Village.
Features: Marg Curnow
Links: PrideNZ.com
Television current affairs: Campbell Live looks at a boy with HIV (New Zealand)
Ref F221798.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
Television item (New Zealand)
Tvnz News At 8, ref: TZP413103.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Gonorrhoea rate on the rise in Auckland
There has been an increase in gonorrhoea among gay and bisexual men in Auckland, and sexually active men are being encouraged to take a free ‘self-swab’ test...
Links: GayNZ.com
Key continues to thaw on marriage equality
Prime Minister John Key says he would vote yes in the first reading of a marriage equality bill which is being drafted by Labour's Rainbow Caucus chair Louisa Wall, if it was drawn from the ballot...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wear pink this Friday
The Mental Health Foundation is urging all New Zealanders to wear pink this Friday, to mark national anti-bullying initiative Pink Shirt Day...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 May 2011

Hateful Ugandan anti-gay bill on hold
Uganda's Parliament appears to have shelved a bill which would have made gay sex a capital offence, amidst widespread global condemnation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Limited edition Billy Apple prints up for sale
Fourteen pieces of art by Billy Apple have been put up for auction on Trade Me, to benefit the New Zealand AIDS Foundation Wellness Fund...
Links: GayNZ.com
Taylor to be remembered at candlelight service
A special signed photograph and letter from the late Dame Elizabeth Taylor will be on display at the Auckland AIDS Candlelight Memorial Service tomorrow evening...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 14 May 2010

Christchurch Pride closing with big weekend
Christchurch Pride is finishing with a huge line-up of events this weekend...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sesame St - for grown-ups
If you learned to count, spell and behave in society from a steady childhood diet of Sesame St, but have felt lost ever since, never fear – Avenue Q is here to teach you about the adult world...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 14 May 2009

Caluzzi meet and great for Rainbow Labour
The Labour Party's four LGBT Members of Parliament invite all interested people to join them for a 'meet and great' social event at K' Road's Caluzzi restaurant next month...
Links: GayNZ.com
Google Doodle wishes for "gay rights now"
Google...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 14 May 2008

Television item (New Zealand)
Close Up, ref: TZP351711.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Auckland Music Theatre: Putting it Together
Putting it Together: The cast at rehearsals Following up from their successful recent production of favourite gay urban fairytale Beautiful Thing, Auckland Music Theatre brings another song-filled stunner to the live stage...
Links: GayNZ.com
Chch Pride Week: Camp as Quiz tonight
One of the Garden City's favourite MC's Miss Kandy Kane will host a quiz night featuring lots of interesting prizes tonight, as Christchurch's annual Pride Week celebration of its LGBT community continues...
Links: GayNZ.com
Manchester hosts Pride Games this Sept
Registrations into a range of sports including rugby, athletics, running, swimming, water polo, canoeing, football, badminton, dancing, archery and mountain biking are now open for participants in Manchester's Pride Games taking place from 7-14 September 2008...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 14 May 2007

Hero Festival: New trustees announced
Hero Festival Trust chairperson Michael Bancroft has announced the new board of trustees who'll take Auckland's LGBT festival into the future...
Links: GayNZ.com
HIV Futures project extended to mid-June
HIV Futures NZ 2, New Zealand's largest comprehensive study into the health and social experiences of people with HIV, has been extended until mid-June to enable more HIV-positive New Zealanders to take part...
Links: GayNZ.com
On Stage: Hushabye Mountain
“Danny's dead and hanging around outside heaven...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rachel Hunter gets lesbian film role
NZ-born supermodel Rachel Hunter will play a lesbian in new movie ‘La Cucina' (The Kitchen) alongside The L Word's Leisha Hailey...
Links: GayNZ.com
Serbian lesbian singer wins 'Eurovision'
An estimated 100 million television viewers saw an openly-lesbian singer from Serbia win this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki on Saturday evening...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 14 May 2006

"Fornication" and Modern Sexual Ethics
Why does the Christian Right obsess about sex so much, whether lesbian, gay or non-reproductive recreational straight sex? Can new historical research enlighten us? According to the late French (gay) social theorist Michel Foucault, Ancient Greece and Rome had different ideas about the ethical conduct of sexuality than the rest of us...
Links: GayNZ.com
Numbers and energy mark start of Pride
Christchurch's second Pride Week kicked off with a resounding roar last night when hundreds of gays and lesbians turned out for the opening ceremony, a women's party and the Mr and Ms Pride contest...
Links: GayNZ.com
Protecting our past: The Lesbian and Gay Archive Pt1
Phil Parkinson As we rapidly approach the 20th anniversary of Homosexual Law reform in New Zealand on July 8th and look to times past, it crosses the mind to wonder if New Zealand's lesbian and gay histories are in safe hands...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 May 2005

Emissions from the Brionosphere
As Garnet Milne's latest loopy outburst has been adequately covered, I thought I'd note down Destiny New Zealand's rant about the iniquity of civil unions...
Links: GayNZ.com
Local content explosion at Out Takes
An unprecedented level of local content in this year's Out Takes gay and lesbian film festival is a sign of New Zealand's burgeoning gay film scene, says programmer Simon Fulton...
Links: GayNZ.com
Up magazine co-publisher Andy Boreham
Andy Boreham The co-publisher of Up magazine believes NZ glbt people need to work more on strengthening our relationships with one another, as individuals and groups...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 14 May 2004

Gay activists manipulate "gender"
The word 'gender' has been manipulated by gay activists and feminists, says a Christian lobby group in its latest word to the masses...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay community dysfunctional says comedian
Auckland's gay community is very dysfunctional, according to gay comedian Philip Patston, who has become disillusioned after a few months foraying into the world of online dating...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 May 1988

Deportee Charged (Press, 14 May 1988)
On 14 May 1988, Simone Rothschild, a 32-year-old deported New Zealand transsexual, was arrested upon her arrival at Auckland Airport from Australia. Rothschild faced 19 charges related to fraud and false pretence, linked to dishonesty charges from 1981. She had been described in police records as a gemologist. Arrest warrants...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Possible A.i.d.s.-infected Drug Addict (Press, 14 May 1988)
A Soviet woman named Patricia Legras is undergoing tests in Moscow to determine if she is a carrier of the A.I.D.S. virus. If positive, she would be the first known drug addict in the Soviet Union to be infected with the disease. As of May 1988, there are reported to...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 14 May 1985

A.i.d.s. Brings ‘changes In Lifestyle’ (Press, 14 May 1985)
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California-San Francisco, published on 14 May 1985, reveals a significant decline in sexual activity among homosexual men in San Francisco amid the rising A.I.D.S. death toll. This study, part of an A.I.D.S. behavioural research project, indicates that since 1982, there have...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Comprehensive Reform Of Tax System Sought (Press, 14 May 1985)
At a regional conference held in Invercargill over the weekend of 11-12 May 1985, delegates from Otago-Southland expressed a strong desire for the National Government to pursue comprehensive reforms in personal, indirect, and business taxation. A remit passed at the conference was a significantly revised version of an initial proposal...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 14 May 1984

Television: Sociologist Rosemary Novitz interviewed about sex role stereotyping of children (New Zealand)
ref: TZP21887.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
The Queen's Dragoons exhibition is held at Exposures Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand)
The exhibition runs from 14 May to June 1984
Links: Wellington Recollect (1), Wellington Recollect (2)

Mon 14 May 1979

Gay Evening Of Dance Allowed (Press, 14 May 1979)
On 14 May 1979, it was reported that officials at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, approved a request from a high-school student to take his boyfriend to the upcoming school dance. Principal Fred Stephens commented on the situation, acknowledging that he had no reason to deny the...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Thorpe ‘tried To Fix Witnesses’ (Press, 14 May 1979)
On 14 May 1979, the Old Bailey in London heard allegations against Jeremy Thorpe, a former leader of the British Liberal Party, who was accused of conspiring to murder his former homosexual lover, Norman Scott. The prosecution, led by Mr Peter Taylor Q.C., outlined a detailed scenario where Thorpe was...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television feature: A Matter of Style - Quentin Crisp with Davina Whitehouse (New Zealand)
Features footage of Crisp's visit to New Zealand in 1978, performing in Takapuna. Ref TZP97073.
Links: TVNZ
Pink Triangle magazine begins (New Zealand)
The magazine is produced by the National Gay Rights Coalition and is an important source of news and feature articles. The magazine is distributed nationally, with the first issue published on 14 May 1979. The magazine's last issue is September/October 1990.
Links: Auckland Museum

Sat 14 May 1977

Anticipation Greater Than Realisation (Press, 14 May 1977)
On 14 May 1977, D. McKenzie reviewed the "Thursday Star Movie" which featured "The Three Musketeers," originally released in 1948. The segment opening featured an animated kiwi bird interacting with movie stars, creating an exciting atmosphere that enhanced viewers' anticipation despite the somewhat mundane setting of a typical evening at...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 14 May 1976

Labour Youth Deride Party For Timidity (Press, 14 May 1976)
During the New Zealand Labour Party conference on 13 May 1976, a report from the youth advisory council broke a long-standing silence regarding the party's performance over the last three years. The report, presented by youth council chairman Phil Goff, chastised the third Labour Government for lacking initiative and being...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 14 May 1975

Women’s Lib. Theory (Press, 14 May 1975)
On 13 May 1975, at the first Pacific Congress of Psychiatry held in Melbourne, an American psychiatrist, Dr. Zira Defries from Columbia University, addressed the attendees about the increasing prevalence of lesbian experiences among American college students, attributing this trend to the women's liberation movement. Dr. Defries noted that many...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 14 May 1935

Physician and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld dies (Nice, France)
Hirschfeld dies of a heart attack on his 67th birthday.
Links: Wikipedia

Fri 14 May 1897

Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Berlin, Germany)
The Committee was formed to campaign for social recognition of gay, bisexual and transgender men and women, and against their legal persecution. It was the first LGBT rights organisation in history.
Links: Wikipedia

Thu 14 May 1868

Physician and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld is born
Links: Wikipedia

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