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On This Day: 17th January

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Mon 17 Jan 2022

  • Apostle Brian Tamaki is remanded in custody (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Tamaki was taken into custody after an alleged breach of his bail conditions.
    Links: Stuff

Sun 17 Jan 2021

  • What Does It Mean To Be A Modern Man In 2021?
    New podcast, He’ll Be Right , seeks to answer this question, by looking at diverse forms of masculinity through the perspectives of an All Black, a model, a reformed abuser, an advocate for trans rights, a professor of tikanga, a popular Māori musician, ...
    Links: Scoop

Fri 17 Jan 2020

  • Trump restrictions on fetal tissue research unsettle key studies and scientists
    A recent Trump administration decision to limit funding of research that uses fetal tissue is already disrupting research into major diseases, including AIDS, Down syndrome and diabetes, scientists say...
    Links: NZ Herald

Wed 17 Jan 2018

  • ‘Go Tribal’ Wellington Pride Parade After Party Labelled “Culturally Insensitive”
    Links: Express
  • Review: Call Me By Your Name
    Links: Express

Tue 17 Jan 2017

  • Gay Men Can Now Give Blood in Ireland
    Links: Express
  • Ninety Per Cent of LGBT+ Australians Against Religious Exemptions
    Links: Express
  • Orlando Gunman’s Widow Arrested
    Links: Express
  • 5 dead following shooting in Cancun 'gay-friendly' club
    Several people are reported to have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a gay-friendly club in Cancun, Mexico during the early hours of this morning...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Advocacy and Activism: Charles Prout
      Charles Prout on right What does advocacy and/or activism mean to you? I just recently finished a paper at uni about transnational activism (shout out to Dr Greta Snyder) because of this I have a wide definition of advocacy and activism and to me they are the same thing...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pulse massacre gunman's wife arrested
    The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in the Orlando gay nightclub massacre in June last year has been arrested...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 17 Jan 2016

  • Anglican Church feeling backlash of vote
    The Anglican Church is feeling a backlash following this weeks vote to sanction a liberal US Church which supports same-sex marriage...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Film screening to raise funds for Out in the Park
    Out in the Park are hosting a film fundraiser for this year’s Wellington Pride Festival...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay hand-holding may be criminalised in Russia
    Russia's parliament is to this Friday begin debating a proposed law which could see gay people jailed for holding hands or kissing in public...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 17 Jan 2015

  • Achieving the Perfect Smile!
    Links: Express
  • Louis ‘Ova
    Links: Express
  • Whangarei breeds the best Hospitality
    Links: Express
  • DJ robbed on K' Rd by man with crowbar
    A well-known Auckland DJ was robbed by a man wielding a crowbar on K’ Rd in the early hours of this morning...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Jac Lynch's Butch on Butch exhibition
    Jac Lynch’s exhibition Butch on Butch opens at Wellington’s Photospace Gallery next Friday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Report K' Rd crimes, advocate urges
    A group set up in response to violence on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd is urging people who are victims of attacks or abuse on the strip to report them to police...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Supreme Court will hear marriage cases
    The US Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments this year on whether same-sex couples across the country should be able to marry, and whether marriage equality bans should be struck down as unconstitutional...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 17 Jan 2014

  • Ali Mau to host "naughty" Pride Gala
    Ali Mau Broadcaster Ali Mau will host the flashy official opening event of the Auckland Pride Festival, the Pride Gala...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Civic Square ready for Wellington fair
    Out in the Square will be flush with rainbows tomorrow There is a chance of some showers for Wellington’s Out in the Square tomorrow, but any rain will be light and short-lived...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Conservatives: Detour Ahead?
    Never were truer words spoken...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Leto's trans role lands Oscar nomination
    Jared Leto as Rayon Jared Leto has been nominated for an Oscar for his roles as a transgender woman in the film Dallas Buyers Club...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Logie calls for NZ action over African laws
    Jan Logie The Greens' Human Rights spokeswoman Jan Logie has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs calling for him to use diplomatic channels to raise concern about lgbti people in sub-Saharan Africa, and is urging others to follow suit...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Man publicly whipped for sodomy in Nigeria
    File Photo A 28-year-old man has been whipped 20 times in a northern Nigerian Shariah court after being convicted on a charge of sodomy...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out Aussie snowboarder heading to Sochi
    Picture: Facebook Aussie snowboarder Belle Brockhoff is heading to Sochi to compete at the Winter Olympics, and will wear a clothing brand which is all about taking a stand against discrimination...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pride QandA: Gala coordinator Lexie Matheson
    Lexie Matheson has plenty in store! Lexie Matheson has taken on the challenging and exciting task of coordinating the Auckland Pride Gala...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Report: Ugandan law blocked by Museveni
    President Museveni A Ugandan media outlet is reporting Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has blocked the nation's anti-gay legislation, while describing gay people as "abnormal" beings who can be "rescued" through improving the nation's economy...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 17 Jan 2013

  • March protester fears behind police uniform ban
    Gay police officers in London's Pride parade Fears that disruption by anti-gay protesters requiring police intervention could lead to police officers being seen as lacking impartiality are behind the instruction that uniforms are not to be worn by gay police officers marching in next month's Auckland Pride Parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marriage Equality: What About Real Families, Bob?
    A protected 'real marriage' - Kim Kardashian and kris Humphries reality marriage was gone in a flash...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Proud gay police not allowed to march in uniform
    Police Diversity Liason Officers, some of whom are openly gay, at the Big Gay Out Gay and lesbian police officers who wish to march with pride in next month's Pride Parade in Auckland will have to do so as individuals and must not wear uniform...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Young NZer of Year to host Pride Gala show
    Sam Johnson 2012 Young New Zealander of the Year Sam Johnson has been confirmed as the on-stage host of the big Gala Concert which will launch next month's Auckland Pride Festival...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 17 Jan 2012

  • Actors slam anti-gay Globes protestors
    Christopher Plummer While plenty of gay actors gathered inside and glbt-friendly shows picked up awards, the notoriously hatefully homophobic Westboro Baptist Church protested outside yesterday's Golden Globes ceremony...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • British player sports rainbow hairtie at Open
    A teenage British tennis player may have lost her match at the Australian Open, but she has likely won plenty of glbt fans after sporting a rainbow hairtie while playing at an arena named after tennis great turned anti-equality pastor Margaret Court...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Details of AKL memorial for Carmen confirmed
    An Auckland memorial service for the late and great Carmen Rupe will be held on the eve of the Big Gay Out...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Introducing: Zakk d'Larté
    A 17-year-old budding pop prince will be among the performers at one of the events that are making Wellington the place to be this weekend, Out in the Square...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Jackman pledges support for marriage equality
    Hugh Jackman has pledged his support for Australian marriage equality, agreeing that "marriage should be about love and respect, not discrimination"...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Skjellerup becomes FebFast ambassador
    Blake Skjellerup Gay Olympian Blake Skjellerup has signed up to take part in FebFast, which has selected Rainbow Youth as one of its beneficiaries this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 17 Jan 2011

  • Colfer, Lynch and Bening win Globes
    Chris Colfer Chris Colfer has won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Kurt on Glee, while his lesbian co-star Jane Lynch also picked up a gong for her acerbic character Sue Sylvester...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fest includes doco about trans identity struggle
    A film about how New Zealanders define their sex and sexuality and how they deal with people seeking transgender status will be one of the features of Documentary Edge 2011...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Plenty to confess
    Ricky Beirao AKA Rhubarb Rouge is on a mission to re-inject fun into drag, one costume change at a time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Seven cleared over Campbell outing
    Australia's broadcasting watchdog has cleared Channel Seven Sydney over the outing of former New South Wales Transport Minister David Campbell, saying it was in the public interest...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sexuality concerns a driver of self-harm
    A Victoria University researcher has found concerns over sexuality are one of the reasons Wellington youth self-harm...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • UK therapist tries to "heal" gay man
    A British psychotherapist may be struck off after she tried to convert a gay man straight, by praying to God to ‘heal' him...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 17 Jan 2010

  • Romance blossoms at GayNZ.com Meet-Ups
    A 20-year-old Auckland student has told the Sunday Star-Times of his first gay kiss with a guy he met at a GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA: Student newspaper sorry for gay bash cartoon
    The editors of student newspaper of Indiana's University of Notre Dame have apologised for printing a "cruel and hateful" cartoon promoting gay bashing...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 17 Jan 2009

  • "Coming out is depressing after all"
    'An enchanted warrior' posted on GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Boy George sentenced to 15 months' jail
    UK gay pop star Boy George – found guilty last month of falsely imprisoning a male escort – has been sentenced to 15 months in jail...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Volunteers needed for busy Big Gay Out
    The team putting together Auckland's Big Gay Out family fun day in Coyle Park is seeking volunteers to give an hour or two of their time to help out at the event...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wired for sex: Your robotic relationship?
    Sometime later this century, future LGBT communities will confront a moral dilemma, as computers, robots and other artificial intelligences acquire the ability to become self-aware...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 17 Jan 2008

  • Exclusive Brethren: Running Interference?
    After running an acerbic propaganda campaign against the Electoral Finance Act last year, the National Opposition is trying to rapidly distance itself from a new anti-Labour effort from the extremist Exclusive Brethren sect...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gays jailed: 6 in Morocco, 3 in Cameroon
    An appeals court has upheld the convictions of six Moroccan men who prosecutors had claimed took part in a gay wedding, and a court in Cameroon has sentenced three men accused of being homosexuals to six months hard labour...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New Cuba St gay bar opening in February
    Wellington's 'first couple' of LGBT nightlife have revealed they'll be back in business soon with an intimate new gay bar...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 17 Jan 2007

  • Adrian Mackie, openly gay college head boy
    Adrian Mackie As one of the four Head Students at Auckland's Rosehill College, Adrian, 18, was an openly-gay role model for young people questioning their sexuality...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Buffy and Bimbo
    TVOne's new property buying programme starts tomorrow evening, and features some familiar faces...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Poland: Monument to gay victims of Nazis
    A monument planned for the centre of Poland's capital city will be a permanent reminder of the “Pink Triangle” gays who were slaughtered in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Public health expert joins NZAF Board
    The New Zealand AIDS Foundation's newest trustee appointment, Dr Paul Bohmer, “brings with him a wealth of expertise and leadership in the area of public health medicine,” says NZAF Board Chair Hoani Jeremy Lambert...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 17 Jan 2006

  • Hamilton's 'men only' venues
    Bored with the same old saunas? Tired of sitting on the same old faces? Well, get thee into thy chariot and tool on down the great southern motorway to the cow-cocky capital - Hamilton! Yes, Hamilton now has two establishments for fans of steamy pleasure...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Reply: Speech, sects and stealth
    In his recent defence of the Exclusive Brethren sect, Chris Finlayson (National List MP) missed the point about objections to the sect's interference in our political scene...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Springerama
    Trailer-dwelling, badly coiffed and inbred...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Strange Directions
    The Maxim Institute is holding its annual youth indoctrination conference at Snells Beach, Auckland (14-22nd January, 2006)...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 17 Jan 2005

  • Anatomy of the arse
    It's official – anal sex is good for you...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Anatomy of the arse
    It's official – anal sex is good for you...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cautious optimism over HIV breakthrough
    A new breakthrough by British scientists in discovering some of the origins of the HIV virus is welcome, says the AIDS Foundation, but excitement over media reports of a potential cure need to be tempered with caution...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • CU celebrant applications pour in
    Civil union celebrant applications are pouring into Internal Affairs, despite a doom-saying opinion from the President of the Celebrants Guild last week which suggested not many registered marriage celebrants would be interested in applying for the civil union role...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 17 Jan 2000

  • Snapshot 2000 - Regis (France)
    Regis talks about coming out and first sexual experience.
    Links: PrideNZ.com

Sun 17 Jan 1999

  • Discharge (Wellington)
    Darren Graham talks about being discharged from the Royal New Zealand Air Force on the grounds that he was a practicing homosexual
    Features: Darren Graham
    Links: PrideNZ.com

Fri 17 Jan 1986

Tue 17 Jan 1984

  • Entreaty By General (Press, 17 January 1984)
    General Guenter Kiessling, who was dismissed from a prominent NATO position, has publicly called on West German Chancellor Dr Helmut Kohl to intervene on his behalf regarding the allegations surrounding his sexuality. The general's appeal was made during an interview published in the West German magazine "Quick" on 16 January...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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