The final days of GayNZ.com's sixteen-year life are counting down with the site's May 31st closure increasingly imminent. Louisa Wall MP and Parliamentary supporters after her marriage equality bill passed in 2013. While all of our 'back-catalogue' of reporting through news and feature stories is being handed over to LAGANZ, the national archive of glbti material and information, how readily accessible it will be is unsure - at least at this stage of the process. A quick glance back to our first few months of reporting, in 2001, reveals names such as Peter Sinclair, John Banks, Christine Fletcher, Tim Barnett, Peter Wells. DJ Karl Moser came out, Auckland's Countrymen's sauna closed its doors, the NZAF ran into trouble with a penis billboard campaign, the AIDS Quilt turned ten and the Hero Festival was still a - very important - thing. Jump forward randomly to 2009 and HIV diagnoses were blowing out, Queenstown got a gay bar, Tamati Coffey won big on Dancing With The Stars, the major TV networks were cold-shouldering a glbti TV programme, The Milk movie was banned in Samoa and the Topp Twins' Untouchable Girls movie hit the screens. Another random jump, to 2013, sees the marriage equality bill passed, Family First attacked the charitable status of glbti support and advocacy organisations, Georgina Beyer revealed her struggle with kidney failure, a gay ex-soldier shares his experiences of life in the army after the death of Corporal Dougie Hughes and a gay conman was jailed after a crime-spree. There's a wealth of reportage and backgrounders, capturing glbti lives in real time as they were being lived over sixteen years. Fragments will survive online, on websites such as the Wayback Machine. But if you want to capture any material now's a good time to hit the Google button. Our work has always been available for glbti people to use and all we ask is that you not plagiarise it... if you use it anywhere please attribute it to GayNZ.com and where there is an author's name attached please acknowledge that writer. - 19th May 2017