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Fri 6 Jan 2023

  • The Rainbow Perspective - Georgina Beyer (Radio Hawkes Bay)
    This is one of the last radio interviews with Georgina Beyer before her death on 6 March 2023
    Features: Georgina Beyer
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Pics: Sexy NYE Celebrations At Uretiti Part 1
    Links: Express
  • Pics: Sexy NYE Celebrations At Uretiti Part 2
    Links: Express
  • UK: Teen Boy Beaten By His Own Family After Coming Out...
    Links: Express
  • WATCH: Drag Race Drops Sneak Peek Teaser For Season 15
    Links: Express

Thu 6 Jan 2022

  • Jana Hocking on 'Skirt Club' for women keen to explore sexuality
    OPINION: About a year ago, an ex-boyfriend popped back into my DMs...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Bear New Zealand Week 2022
    Links: Express
  • New Year’s Eve and Festive Fun at Autumn Farm
    Links: Express

Wed 6 Jan 2021

Mon 6 Jan 2020

  • New Zealand Church unaffected by US methodist schism over gay marriage
    A fissure in the American Methodist church is unlikely to open up in New Zealand - where the matter of gay rights was settled two decades ago...
    Links: RNZ
  • Australian Cricketer Fined For Homophobic Slur
    Links: Express
  • ELLEN AND ELTON LEAD THE WAY AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES
    Links: Express
  • History Made With New Transgender Rights Law In Chile
    Links: Express
  • Phoenix Cabaret Setup Fundraiser For Australian Firefighters
    Links: Express

Sun 6 Jan 2019

  • Winning is Never a Drag
    Links: Express

Fri 6 Jan 2017

  • Coachella’s Owner is Anti-LGBT+
    Links: Express
  • Texas May Regress Like North Carolina
    Links: Express
  • Shanghai Lil to reopen - on Karangahape Rd
    Shanghai-Lil, Auckland's camp oriental-themed piano bar, has found a new home and is likely to re-open on Karangahape Road in February in time for the Auckland Pride Festival...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Taranaki man horrifically injured in Queensland
    A gay Taranaki man has been found with horrific injuries under a Queensland bridge after allegedly being propositioned by a married man...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 6 Jan 2016

  • Autumn Farm
    Links: Express
  • Obituary: Robert Spitzer (1932-2015)
    The late Professor Robert Spitzer (1932-2015) was a pivotal figure in the depathologisation of homosexuality within mainstream mental health practice, both within the United States and the rest of the western world...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Safety precautions were carried out at Vinegar Hill
    Differing views are emerging regarding this year’s Vinegar Hill camping festivities after a man was badly injured on New Year’s Eve at the lgbti camping hot spot...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Twitter bans homophobic and transphobic language
    A new year brings a big move for social media website Twitter who has revealed it will now ban any account that uses homophobic and transphobic language...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 6 Jan 2015

  • Movie Review: Interstella
    Links: Express
  • Uber Driver Kicks Out Gay Couple For Kissing
    Links: Express
  • US Pride DVD Cover Wipes Out Gay References
    Links: Express
  • A march for Leelah
    “Transgender lives are just as important and our community does not need another tragedy” writes Eva Allan, who is organising a march in Auckland for Leelah Alcorn...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sam Smith soaks up Sydney with BF
    Sam Smith has posted the first pictures with his new boyfriend, as they enjoyed a trip to Sydney over the New Year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Same-sex marriages start in Florida
    Jeff Ronci, left, kisses his partner of 15 years, Juan Talavera, as they hold up their marriage license at the Miami-Dade County clerk of courts office Same-sex couples in Florida's Miami-Dade county have begun to legally marry with couples in other counties across the state set to be able to tie the knot in a few hours' time...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 6 Jan 2014

  • Another big Bear NZ Week on the way
    There are no doubts February is going to be a huge month in Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Daley and Black enjoy London date night
    Diver Tom Daley and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have confirmed they are dating, through a cake and a night out in London...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Memories of Out! Empire's heyday flow
    The death of Tony Katavich has former employees reflecting on the idiosyncratic world of the ‘Out! Empire’ in its 70s and 80s heydays...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 6 Jan 2013

  • Another poll shows support for marriage equality
    A new poll says a majority of New Zealanders continue to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people having full marriage rights...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wedding Belles: 1,2,3 … 1,2,3 …
    Why did Bette and Tina have to make it look so easy? On our scarily lengthy to do list for the wedding my fiancée has written ‘choose first dance song,’ closely followed by ‘learn to dance’...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 6 Jan 2012

  • Filipino teen scalded by father after coming out
    Media in the Philippines are reporting a teenager has suffered first degree burns, when his father scalded him with boiling water because he told him he was gay...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Takei and Aiken join Celebrity Apprentice
    George Takei Gay Star Trek legend and cult hero George Takei will join a gay American Idol runner-up among an assortment of contestants on the next season of Celebrity Apprentice...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 6 Jan 2011

  • "I prayed to be straight" – Gareth Thomas
    Rugby-turned-league star Gareth Thomas has spoken out about the turmoil he went through before coming to terms with the fact he was gay...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • A Tale of Another Three Tories
    Six years ago, I did a column on the comparative situations of four centre-right parties in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Busy day for phone counselling service
    The OUTline phone counselling service reports a busy day on the phones yesterday, their first full service day following a quiet holiday break...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gareth Thomas speaks to Ellen
    GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Getting Roshan to the games
    This Saturday GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Palmer continues Down Under love affair
    Newly-married bisexual musician Amanda Palmer has released the first single from her upcoming album, which is a 12-track tribute to New Zealand and Australia...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wellington Outgames set to be party central
    The Wellington Outgames crew have already unveiled a scheduled jam-packed with sports, a powerful human rights conference and an exciting dose of arts and culture – and now they have also managed to cram in three massive parties...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 6 Jan 2010

  • $500 gift for cash-strapped Body Positive
    A generous gay Aucklander says he's pleased to donate $500 to HIV+ people's support service Body Positive to help them during its cash crunch...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Lesbian heiress Casey Johnson found dead
    Casey Johnson, the heiress of the Johnson   ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • My big gay Sims family
    20-year-old Bryce Parker has an addiction - he can't stop playing Sims 3...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA HIV+ ban officially lifted
    The long standing ban on HIV+ travellers entering the United States was officially lifted yesterday...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 6 Jan 2009

  • My Vinegar Hill diary
    Vinegar Hill stalwart Calum Bennachie reports back with notes and gossip from his eventful stay at the Manawatu's annual LGBT New Year's camping hotspot...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • My Vinegar Hill diary
    Vinegar Hill stalwart Calum Bennachie reports back with notes and gossip from his eventful stay at the Manawatu's annual LGBT New Year's camping hotspot...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Was 2008 Hollywood's "gayest year ever"?
    The past year could have been Hollywood's "gayest ever", claims the MSN entertainment website as it wraps up the many LGBT stories of 2008...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 6 Jan 2008

  • The gay life, but not as we know it
    Michael Stevens I haven't felt so attractive and desirable in years...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 6 Jan 2006

  • Obituary: Charles Socarides (1922-2005), anti-gay luminary
    Unlike many antigay luminaries, Charles Socarides actually had a mainstream teaching career at Columbia University, the State University of New York, SUNY Downstate Medical Centre and Albert Einstein College at the US Department of Defense...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Off-Centre: DOMB and Extremism
    Why was there such a backlash against Gordon Copeland's same-sex marriage bill? A British feminist political scientist provides one answer...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sex Venue: Auckland's Westside
    'Memories, like the corners of the Westside, many misty moisty memories of the way it was ...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 6 Jan 2005

  • Makgatho Mandela, the eldest son of Nelson Mandela, dies from AIDS related conditions
    Links: BBC
  • NZ big business in bed with the moral right creep
    Air New Zealand CEO Ralph Norris, cereal king and mayor of Auckland Dick Hubbard, millionaire businessman John Sax – is there a growing collusion between the economic right and the social right in New Zealand? Both Hubbard and Sax, within a day of being exposed by the GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Oz stopovers save AKL glbt holidaymakers
    An almost universal decision by glbt tourists from Auckland to spend a few Christmas days in Australia en route to Phuket holidays has spared them from the Asian tsunami disaster...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vinegar Hill: The Queen Mother's Diary
    We left a sunny and balmy Wellington at about 1pm on 22 December for Vinegar Hill, arriving about 4pm in the damp, with short and intermittent drizzly showers...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 6 Jan 2004

  • NZAF seeks new policy analyst
    The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is currently taking applications for a new policy analyst, which it says can be located in either its Auckland or Wellington offices...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 6 Jan 1994

Fri 6 Jan 1989

Mon 6 Jan 1986

Thu 6 Jan 1983

  • New Illness A Mystery (Press, 6 January 1983)
    On 6 January 1983, public health officials and blood experts from across the United States convened in Atlanta to address the concerning rise of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a mysterious illness that weakens the immune system. Initially identified among homosexual males in New York and California, the disease has...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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