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Thu 20 Jul 2023

  • 2 X Double Passes To Barbie!
    Links: Express
  • Pics | Georgina Beyer Memorial
    Links: Express
  • UK Government Issues Historic Apology to LGBTQ+ Veterans for Past Abuse...
    Links: Express

Wed 20 Jul 2022

  • Monkeypox: Over 2000 Cases Confirmed Across The UK
    Links: Express
  • Singapore: School Counsellor Suspended Following Bazaar Homophobic Lesson
    Links: Express
  • Singapore: School Counsellor Suspended Following Bizarre Homophobic Lesson
    Links: Express

Tue 20 Jul 2021

  • Tale Of Two Pandemics: Follow The Science And Do Not Forget One At The Cost Of The Other
    Covid-19 has posed innumerable health, economic, and social challenges for all, including people living with HIV...
    Links: Scoop
  • Caitlyn Jenner Arrives In Australia For Appearance On Big Brother
    Links: Express

Mon 20 Jul 2020

  • World Rugby considers transgender ban
    World Rugby could ban transgender athletes from playing women's rugby because of safety concerns...
    Links: RNZ

Fri 20 Jul 2018

  • Harry Styles: We’re all a little bit gay, aren’t we?
    Links: Express

Thu 20 Jul 2017

Wed 20 Jul 2016

  • New LGBTI tennis tournament calls for players
    A new tennis tournament to be held in Tasmania is calling for LGBTI players to register their interest...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney to upgrade lighting in LGBTI hotspots
    Sydney is looking to upgrade the lighting in LGBTI hotspots to better protect the community...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 20 Jul 2015

  • Farmers Introduces Trans Friendly Changing Room Policy
    Links: Express
  • New Report Slams Australia’s Treatment of GLBT Asylum Seekers
    Links: Express
  • Scottish GLBT Awards Show Under Fire For Using Blackface In Promotion
    Links: Express
  • Bea Arthur leaves lgbt shelter golden gift
    The new facility will be named after Bea Arthur Construction will begin on new homeless shelter for lgbt youth in New York this week, thanks in part to a bequest from the late Golden Girls star Bea Arthur...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Caitlyn, Laverne and Janet: a NZ trans woman's thoughts
    Wellington's Shelley Te Waiariki Howard writes on how high-profile trans women in the US are raising both awareness, and unrealistic expectations...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Farmers fitting rooms to go gender neutral
    Auckland trans woman Mary Haddock-Staniland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Finding Common Ground with our youth
    New research shows just how important community and family networks are for young people going through a tough time, and a Government-backed website is offering useful tips on how everyone can have open conversations about gender and sexuality with youth...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Finding Common Ground with our youth
    New research shows just how important community and family networks are for young people going through a tough time, and a Government-backed website is offering useful tips on how everyone can have open conversations about gender and sexuality with youth...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quiz nights are coming back to Caluzzi
    Steven Oates is bringing his popular Auckland quiz nights back, with a limited season kicking off at K’ Rd’s Caluzzi this Tuesday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • TransAdvocates issues challenge for Wilson
    A transgender advocacy group is calling for Tim Wilson to back up his apology over his “radio attack” on gender diversity with some further action...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 20 Jul 2014

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP448355.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Ask Agony Aunt Lisa – Transphobia In The Work Place
    Links: Express
  • Foodie Bites: A little bit of Vietnam in Ponsonby
    Links: Express
  • AIDS 2014 brings gay and bi men to the fore
    In an evening coloured by emotional tributes to the victims of the Flight MH17 disaster, the World AIDS Conference 2014 was formally opened in Melbourne this evening with human rights, condoms and the needs of gay and bisexual men world-wide coming to the fore...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Car slams into Auckland's Eagle Bar
    UPDATED: A car has crashed into the front of Eagle Bar on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd, causing substantial damage...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Door sales for Adore, but get there early
    Adore Delano in Melbourne - she comes to New Zealand fresh from an Australian tour There will be door sales to the hotly-anticipated Auckland show by RuPaul’s Drag Race star Adore Delano tonight...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Eagle Bar to open tonight, after repairs
    Repair work was quickly underway this morning Eagle Bar will be able to open despite a car slamming into its frontage this morning, and its staff are dealing with the incident with humour...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Former NZ restaurateur killed on MH17
    A gay former Auckland and Queenstown restaurateur, who had just married his partner, is among those who were killed on MH17...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The legacy of Corporal Dougie Hughes
    The late Corporal Douglas Hughes Regardless of his state of mind it is pretty clear that the New Zealand Defence Force failed a conflicted soldier who took his own life shortly after being confronted about his attraction to another male soldier and the way it was affecting his interactions with that, junior, soldier...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 20 Jul 2013

  • K' Rd's Switch Bar having its last hurrah
    Auckland's Switch Bar will close its doors after tonight, with its owner saying he wants to concentrate on Family Bar across the road...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Seeking your vote: Keith and McColm
    Keith and McColm want to win a wedding! Keith tells us all about how they met, a proposal that was 'not the most romantic ever,' but memorable, and why they think you should vote for them...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 20 Jul 2012

  • Body Positive (Body Positive)
    Charlie, Ron and Ngapoe talk about Body Positive - a group founded by and run for people living with HIV and AIDS in New Zealand
    Features: unidentified voice(s)
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Corrections responds to report into Mills' death
    Glenn Mills took his own life while awaiting trial Following the Coroner's investigation into the death of accused HIV predator Glenn Mills in his cell, Corrections says while it's doing its best, it can't always prevent prisoners from taking their own lives...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Glenn Mills took own life, Coroner rules
    Glenn Mills took his own life in his prison cell A Coroner has ruled Glenn Mills took his own life in Mt Eden Men’s Prison, and left a letter saying that after six months in custody he “could bear it no more and would rather be dead”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZIFF: Five queer features
    The New Zealand International Film Festival is now underway and the GLBT content is stunning...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Uniformed military allowed to march in gay pride
    For the first time in the nation's history, active members of the US military will be able to march in a gay pride parade, in uniform...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 20 Jul 2011

  • Poll 'shows importance of keeping pressure on'
    Rainbow Wellington says a poll showing a majority of New Zealanders are in favour of same-sex marriage underlines the importance of keeping the pressure on politicians in power, all the time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rally cry sounded in push for trans protection
    The glbti community is being asked to help with a renewed push for the Human Rights Act to be clarified to ensure it includes protection from discrimination on the grounds of gender identity...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Ten free gay-friendly activities in Auckland
    It struck me as a teenager that the best things in life were free...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 20 Jul 2010

  • Abs: the hard truth
    Want to finally get the abs you've always dreamed of? Forget the 'easy six pack in six days', Julz Darroch has the real secrets to a washboard stomach...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Abs: the hard truth
    Want to finally get the abs you've always dreamed of? Forget the 'easy six pack in six days', Julz Darroch has the real secrets to a washboard stomach...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Appeal denied for man who violated friend
    A Horowhenua music producer who sexually assaulted another man has been denied leave to appeal by the Supreme Court...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rourke wants to tackle Thomas role
    Mickey Rourke and Gareth Thomas He is 57-years-old, and yet comeback-actor Mickey Rourke wants to play the role of gay rugby player Gareth Thomas, who is 35...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Topps doco claims another US award
    The Topp Twins The unstoppable Topps have been at it again, scooping another award as their documentary continues to charm audiences in the United States...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 20 Jul 2009

  • Africa: Alarming HIV rates among gay men
    HIV rates among gay men in many African countries are ten times higher than among the general population, reports The Lancet medical journal...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Feeling down? Get with the SPARX programme!
    We all feel bad sometimes, but for some same-sex attracted young people it's hard to find a way through the fog...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ's first Indian gay dance party planned
    With a mixture of 'Hollywood and Bollywood' music, Indian Aucklanders are invited to celebrate at a unique dance party next Friday...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 20 Jul 2008

  • McLeod: To be gay is to be unattractive
    Homophobic national newspaper columnist Rosemary Mcleod has today told her readers that to be gay is to be unattractive...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The L Word spin-off show announced
    Popular lesbian TV drama The L Word will be getting a spin-off show featuring one of its actors in a starring role...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 20 Jul 2007

  • Barrymore case: Seeking NZ evidence
    British detectives are expected to fly to New Zealand as part of an investigation into the death of a man found dead in entertainer Michael Barrymore's swimming pool...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • HIV in AUS: 'P' users become 'hyper-sexual
    Australia's increase in ‘Ice' use (the drug dubbed ‘P' in New Zealand) is fuelling the nation's HIV/AID resurgence by encouraging "hyper-sexual" promiscuity, a leading authority on the disease has warned...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Moscow protest against persecution in Iran
    Around two dozen gay and political activists demonstrated yesterday in front of the Iranian Embassy in Moscow, protesting the execution and discrimination of gay people in Iran...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ: HIV med Kaletra
    A new formulation of the anti-HIV drug Kaletra – available in New Zealand from the 1st of August – will significantly improve the quality of life for many HIV-positive New Zealanders, says the AIDS Foundation...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 20 Jul 2006

  • Man jailed for calling judge a
    A Christchurch District Court judge has jailed a man for seven days for calling the judge a faggot...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • More Tamihere bitterness on Radio Live
    John Tamihere July 7, 2006...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 20 Jul 2005

  • 'Boy prostitutes' scenario for NZ - Tamaki
    12...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 20 Jul 2004

  • Most of my friends are gay says Lawless
    Xena star Lucy Lawless says most of her friends are gay, and she feels very close to them...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 20 Jul 2003

  • David McNee, an interior designer and former television host is killed (Auckland, New Zealand)
    The provocation defence was later successfully used by Phillip Layton Edwards who was found guilty of manslaughter. Edwards was sentenced to nine years imprisonment. He was due for release in April 2012.
  • Lesbian discontent over civil unions
    Not all gays and lesbians are pleased at the announcement of civil union legislation, and some have not been hesitant to voice their opposition in the media...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 20 Jul 1999

Sat 20 Jul 1996

Wed 20 Jul 1994

Thu 20 Jul 1989

  • Briefs (Press, 20 July 1989)
    On 20 July 1989, various international news stories highlighted ongoing political, social, and environmental issues across different countries. In Argentina, the newly appointed Minister of Economy, Nestor Rapanelli, faced allegations of fraud and smuggling from Venezuela, where a judge indicated he was wanted on such charges. Rapanelli, however, dismissed the...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 20 Jul 1985

  • Army Against ‘gay’ Soldiers (Press, 20 July 1985)
    On 20 July 1985, Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Rivers presented his views to Parliament's Statutes Revision Committee regarding the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. He argued against the decriminalisation of homosexual activity in the Armed Services, asserting that allowing such relationships in combat units would damage the soldiers' resolve to fight for their...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Women Hold Unity Rally (Press, 20 July 1985)
    On 20 July 1985, a “unity rally” at the University of Nairobi highlighted the achievements and ongoing struggles of women as the United Nations Decade for Women came to a close. Over 1,000 attendees, including speakers from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, gathered to celebrate what they viewed as...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Television news report: a 2,000 signature in support of homosexual law reform (New Zealand)
    6.30 news, ref F84939.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
  • Television news report: MP Richard Prebble receives a petition in support of the Homosexual Law reform Bill. (New Zealand)
    ref: TZP134707.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 20 Jul 1984

  • Individual Freedom (Press, 20 July 1984)
    In a letter published on 20 July 1984, E. R. E. Wilson responds to Varian J. Wilson's previous correspondence which he describes as infused with prejudice and erroneous claims regarding homosexuals. E. R. E. Wilson expresses support for eccentricity but believes that it is crucial to counter the negative viewpoints...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Insight 84 - homosexual law reform
    A Radio New Zealand documentary on homosexual law reform, produced in 1984.
    Links: PrideNZ.com

Wed 20 Jul 1977

  • Katherine Mansfield ‘a Tragic Woman’ (Press, 20 July 1977)
    A new analysis of Katherine Mansfield's tumultuous life and marriage has emerged in the book "Married to Genius," written by Jeffrey Meyers. The book examines how the marital dynamics of several prominent twentieth-century writers—including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and George Bernard Shaw—affected their artistic...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Wear A Badge For Us, Says Gay Liberation (Press, 20 July 1977)
    On 20 July 1977, supporters of homosexual rights were set to gather at the Citizens’ War Memorial in Cathedral Square to commence Gay Pride Week. The event was organized by the Gay Liberation Front, which advocates that homosexuals represent an oppressed minority in society. A key theme of the gathering...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 20 Jul 1976

  • Publication Of 'indecent' Document (Press, 20 July 1976)
    The case against Paul Robert Harper Maling, a 60-year-old defendant charged with being party to printing an indecent document, has been adjourned to August 2, 1976. Maling, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of collaborating with Michael Stephen Waghorn in the publication of the February 1975 edition of “Aequus,”...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 20 Jul 1974

  • Fresh And Stale Avocadoes (Press, 20 July 1974)
    On 20 July 1974, a review highlighted the contrasting receptions of two novels by Elaine Dundy: "The Dud Avocado" and "The Injured Party". "The Dud Avocado", first released some time earlier, quickly became a best-seller, celebrated for its lively protagonist, Sally Jay Goree, who embodied a carefree yet sophisticated lifestyle...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 20 Jul 1960

  • Grand Jury Abolition Provided For In Bill (Press, 20 July 1960)
    On 19 July 1960, the New Zealand Press Association reported a significant development in the country's legal framework, as grand juries are set to be abolished following revisions to the Crimes Bill. This change comes after the bill was first introduced to Parliament in 1957 and underwent a significant rewrite...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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