On This Day: 25th January

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Wed 25 Jan 2023

Basketball: Cairns Taipans players âopt outâ as Pride Round drama erupts
The NBLâs Pride Round has been cast into controversy...
Links: NZ Herald
Pope Francis criticises laws that criminalise homosexuality
'Being homosexual isnât a crime,' Francis said during an interview...
Links: NZ Herald
A Gold Star Wrapped in Red Flags
Links: Express
Review: Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour
Links: Express

Tue 25 Jan 2022

Epic Trans Bhutan Trail to reopen for hikers after decades of neglect
This is your chance to follow in the footsteps of warrior monks, Bhutanese royalty, maybe even the 'Migoi' Yeti...
Links: NZ Herald
Florida: New Legislation Bans Teachers From Discussing LGBTQ+ Topics In School
Links: Express
Land Rover Discovery Sport: Your Perfect Date This Valentine’s Day.
Links: Express
UK To Open First LGBTQ+ Museum In London
Links: Express

Mon 25 Jan 2021

Joe Biden repeals US military transgender ban
The US president has overturned a ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the US military...
Links: RNZ
Joe Biden reverses Trump's ban on transgender in the military
President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military...
Links: NZ Herald
Joe Biden to reverse Donald Trump's transgender ban in US military
US President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military, dumping a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first...
Links: NZ Herald
Press Conference Spotlighting HIV Prevention Research Highlights Of The HIVR4P // Virtual Conference
HIVR4P // Virtual press conference Tuesday, 26 January, 15:00 – 16:00 CET Press conference spotlighting HIV prevention research highlights of the HIVR4P // Virtual conference (January 27-28 andamp; February 3-4) HIVR4P // Virtual – the 4th HIV ...
Links: Scoop
Sheep: Intelligent, exuberant, and often homosexual
Philip Armstrong knows a lot about sheep, he has even written a book about them...
Links: RNZ
Bear This In Mind!
Links: Express
Rainbow Pride Parade Offering Free Registrations For Rainbow Community Groups
Links: Express
US President Joe Biden to Repeal Trans Military Ban as Soon...
Links: Express

Sat 25 Jan 2020

Out and About @ Mr Bear NZ 2020
Links: Express

Fri 25 Jan 2019

NZ Herald Columnist Compares ‘Blackface’ Couple to Trans Women
Links: Express
Our Biggest Gay Out EVER!
Links: Express
Supreme Court Rules Transgender People Must Get Sterilised to Legally Change...
Links: Express

Thu 25 Jan 2018

Can we ever truly wipe the slate clean?
On the 6th July in New Zealand and 31st January 2017 in the UK, gay men were posthumously pardoned, but is it that easy? Is this what these men deserve? In this roller-coaster political comedy, the real question to be asked is, can the slate ever truly be wiped ...
Links: Scoop
Call Me By Your Name Gets Oscar Nomination For Best Picture
Links: Express
Rainbow Auckland Summer BBQ!
Links: Express

Wed 25 Jan 2017

Don’t Miss TropOut New Caledonia
Links: Express
Having the Chat: Stella Callisto
Links: Express
Judge Calls for Overhaul of “Inhumane” Court Process for Trans Teens...
Links: Express
Moonlight Sweeps Oscar Nominations
Links: Express
The Best (and Worst) European Countries for LGBT+ Workers
Links: Express
Change of venue for Wgtn swim meet this weekend
The Rainbow Wellington Sport and Culture weekend is fast approaching and the DSW Swim Meet has announced a change of venue...
Links: GayNZ.com
LGBTI info disappears from US State Dept. website
As concern rises over LGBTI information disappearing from the White House website immediately after the inauguration of Republican President Donald Trump, LGBTI-related content has also been removed from the State Department site...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sonny Bill Williams link to hate-preacher probed
Motor car manufacturing giant BMW has reportedly received complaints from glbti and Jewish people regarding the friendship between rugby star Sonny Bill Williams and an extremist Muslim preacher...
Links: GayNZ.com
Supporting LGBTI male sexual abuse survivors
Ahead of tomorrow’s survivors of sexual violence community hui in Wellington, we chat to Richard Jeffery, the Co-Ordinator of hosting organisation Mosaic about the importance of sharing the stories of male survivors and supporting queer, takatāpui and gender diverse men...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Jan 2016

‘Looking’ Director to Produce Alexander McQueen Biopic
Links: Express
Anglican Communion Cuts Voting Powers of US Episcopal Church Over Marriage...
Links: Express
Hundreds of Thousands of Italians Rally For Civil Unions
Links: Express
Welcome Home: Return of the Staircase
Links: Express
Anika Moa to adjudicate the AK Pride Debate
Anika Moa has been announced as the adjudicator for one of Auckland Pride Festival’s hottest events...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK will recognise s/s marriages in overseas deaths
The British Government has taken action after Australia failed to recognise the marriage of a British man who’s husband died during their honeymoon in the country...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Jan 2015

New Queen of Akl Pride to be annointed
Family Bar is hosting the event on Fridays during Auckland Pride Festival...
Links: GayNZ.com
Short Film Sunday: Trevor
This award-winning flick from 1994 follows the growing pains of teenage Trevor who is struggling to fit in at school and whose homophobic parents seem incapable of understanding his troubled soul...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Jan 2014

"Load more guys ...no feelings attached"
“How do I meet guys somewhere other than online?” This is a question I am often asked by my gay male clients...
Links: GayNZ.com
Issue-based parties and LGBT politics
The new "Mr Big" of New Zealand politics? With the launch of Kim Dotcom's new Internet Party, issue-based parties are in the New Zealand political spotlight...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lesbian foster family show coming to TV2
A new show about a lesbian couple raising foster children will begin screening on TV2 this afternoon...
Links: GayNZ.com
Liberace's ex jailed for up to 20 years
Scott Thorston was portrayed by Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra Liberace’s infamous former lover Scott Thorson is facing up to 20 years in jail after repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Nigerian woman publicly disowns 'gay' cat
A picture which accompanies the story on a Nigerian website A Nigerian newspaper is reporting a woman has publicly disowned her cat because she thinks he is gay...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Jan 2013

Just days left for new Marching Boys to join up
Wannabe marching boys have just a few days left to join the Downundergear Marching Boys to take part in the February 16th Auckland Pride Parade...
Links: GayNZ.com
Man sexually assaults youth in Rotorua park
Kuirau Park Rotorua police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a young man in Rotorua's Kuirau Park...
Links: GayNZ.com
Parents out daughter to push anti-gay sentiment
The Christian parents make their case The deeply conservative Christian parents of a lesbian woman have outed her and her troubled life experiences at the select committee hearings into the marriage equality bill held in Auckland this week...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Jan 2012

Cynthia Nixon says she was born straight
Cynthia Nixon Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon has insisted she chose to be gay and is offended when people suggest she was born a lesbian, but just didn't realise till later in life...
Links: GayNZ.com
GenderBridge seeks helpline volunteers
GenderBridge is looking for volunteer phone counsellors who are willing to go through training so they can answer calls to its helpline...
Links: GayNZ.com
Zowie and Manthyng to electrify Big Gay Out
Zowie and Manthyng will knock your socks off with their performances A double dose of electro-pop will lead the stage line-up at the 2012 Big Gay Out, with Zowie and Manthyng headlining the annual gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender gathering at Auckland's Coyle Park on Sunday 12 February...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Jan 2011

Fit for a queen
Iria and Lynette Calling in for “a drink with friends” ten years ago, then staying for eight days, sparked the love Vinegar Hill's new queen has for the much-adored campground...
Links: GayNZ.com
Love
A four-letter word applied to everything from chocolate to your job; from your granny to your car; from your favourite shoes to your partner...
Links: GayNZ.com
Original crew to mark 20 years since Hero 1
The 1991 Hero Party The original organising committee is getting together in Auckland this weekend to mark 20 years since the first ever Hero Party...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Jan 2010

Comedian Andy Dick on male groping charges
American comedian Andy Dick was arrested after he groped and tried to kiss a man in a West Virginia nightclub, reports trusted celebrity gossip website TMZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gym chain apologises for homophobic article
The Club Physical gym chain says it is sorry it circulated to its members throughout the country a discredited claim that drinking soy milk can turn otherwise straight boys gay...
Links: GayNZ.com
Perez Hilton's desperate and dateless
Poor gay gossiper Perez Hilton has gone public with his dating dramas as he tries to find a nice boyfriend...
Links: GayNZ.com
Radio host Mike Puru comes out live on air
"This is a very hard thing for me to talk about, and for years I've never really mentioned it...
Links: GayNZ.com
The trouble with Nigeria
While Uganda has been the subject of international LGBT opprobrium over its proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Nigeria also has an ignominious LGBT rights record...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Jan 2009

Reactions to day 3 of the KAHA 2009 Youth Hui (Tapu te Ranga Marae)
Participants at the KAHA hui reflect on the third day
Features: Carl Greenwood
Links: PrideNZ.com
More sex accusations for disgraced pastor
Disgraced Indiana evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who's been trying to repair his public image after his 2006 gay prostitute and drugs scandal, is this week facing new sex allegations...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ surrogate's Aussie child support row
The Australian Government is demanding a Kiwi surrogate mother pay child support for the baby girl she had for a gay couple in Queensland, reports the Sydney Morning Herald...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rhubarb Rouge, Wellington's Next Top Drag Queen
Wellington's Next Top Drag Queen Rhubarb Rouge Rhubarb earned herself the prestigious title of Welly's Next Top Drag Queen at the Garden Club recently...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wednesdays are Random again at Caluzzi
K' Road's Caluzzi drag cabaret bar's Random Club Wednesdays return this week for 2009...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Jan 2008

Fraser Moreton: A Kiwi bloke's gay life
Fraser Moreton in 2007 At Auckland's St Matthew's in the City Church yesterday the several hundred people gathered to mourn the passing of Fraser Moreton last weekend heard the short version of a life that was far from stereotypical and yet exemplified many of the experiences which colour LGBT lives...
Links: GayNZ.com
New group will support Auckland's gay dads
A new social and support group in Auckland for gay men who are also fathers will begin in February 2008...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sydney: Campaigning for a safer gay street
Homophobic violence along Sydney's Oxford Street - the home of many of its gay venues - is looming as the major issue for many of the contenders in the City of Sydney council elections later this year, with the Greens and Liberals calling for new thinking on the issue...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Jan 2007

The January edition of UK gay men's lifestyle magazine Attitude has not appeared, with the publisher planning to close or sell the monthly unless it can raise more funds...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fasten your seatbelts! Round one
With apologies to Bette Davis, "fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy 'ride'" as you follow what develops into one of the most confrontational interviews ever broadcast by and for the glbt community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fasten your seatbelts! Round one, part 2
A continuation of our transcript of this morning's on-air dramatic confrontation between G ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay safe sex bus shelter attacked
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation says it is saddened and disappointed by a violent homophobic attack on one of its central Auckland bus shelter advertisements earlier this week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Guests and attractions lined up for Ak's Big Gay Out
MissK, Ak Mayor Hubbard ...
Links: GayNZ.com
LGBT youth leaders meet this weekend
Improved acceptance and support for gay, lesbian, transgender and takataapui youth in the community is one of the aims of the Kaha Queer Youth Hui, to be held at Wellington's Tapu Te Ranga Marae this weekend...
Links: GayNZ.com
Political leaders attending Big Gay Out
Three of the country's heavyweight political leaders from both sides of the political divide have confirmed they will be attending this year's Big Gay Out picnic and fair day in Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK: PM
The Independent newspaper is reporting that the Prime Minister's wife Cherie is responsible for the row in cabinet over the delay in the introduction of gay rights legislation...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Jan 2006

Helpers needed for GAPSS survey
The AIDS Foundation is looking for paid part-time recruiters to help with collection of data for the 2006 Gay Auckland Periodic Sex Survey...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hughes pleased to be QSM recipient
AIDS Foundation Research Director Tony Hughes says he's surprised and pleased to be one of this year's recipients of a Queen's Service Medal, and says it is as much a recognition of the gay community as himself...
Links: GayNZ.com
Numbers swell for HIV+ people's retreat
Numbers have swelled for this year's HIV+ Men's Retreat in Auckland, says David Robertson of Body Positive Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
Police presence for Big Gay Out
The AIDS Foundation says its not expecting any trouble at this year's sixth annual Big Gay Out celebration in Auckland next month, but it will be prepared...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sizing up the 'men only' venues: Auckland's Centurian
From the helpful bloke on the door to the free-to-use hand-held blowdryer, Centurian sauna is a happy marriage of the camp, the comfy and the classy...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sodom and Rwanda?
When the Christian Right uses the myth of Sodom and Gomorrah to attack us, why are they blind to its genocidal overtones? Think about it...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Jan 2005

Action: Catholics plot to block equal rights in Canada
"An evil act remains an evil act whether it is performed in public or in private"...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ Catholics nix same-sex ceremonies
Gay couples wanting to take advantage of new legislation allowing civil unions will not be able to have a church ceremony in a NZ Catholic church...
Links: GayNZ.com
Spice Up Your Sex Life
Remember the old phrase, sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me? The world of leather sex and S ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Jan 1996

Composer Jonathan Larson dies (New York, United States of America)
Larson's musical Rent was just days away from opening on Broadway when he passed away.
Links: New York Times
Television item (New Zealand)
One Network News, ref: TZP165700.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP165756.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 25 Jan 1986

Addicts And A.i.d.s. (Press, 25 January 1986)
In letters published on 25 January 1986, two individuals expressed contrasting viewpoints regarding societal attitudes towards homosexuality and the AIDS epidemic in New Zealand. G. H. Duggan, writing in response to Paul Malling's description of Morton Smith's book, “The Secret Gospel,” criticises the book for its lack of scholarly rigor....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 25 Jan 1984

Top Officers Discuss Sacking Affair (Press, 25 January 1984)
On 25 January 1984, senior West German military commanders convened in Bonn to discuss the recent dismissal of General Guenther Kiessling amid growing concerns about the credibility of the country’s Intelligence agency. This meeting, led by the Inspector-General of the Bundeswehr, General Wolfgang Altenburg, involved a briefing for twelve senior...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 25 Jan 1978

N.z. Isolated Land Of Mediocrity—author (Press, 25 January 1978)
On 25 January 1978, John Bruce, a New Zealand author currently residing in Ireland, expressed strong criticism of his home country, describing it as an isolated and mediocre society on the brink of bankruptcy. Bruce, who is known for his thriller “Airscream,” urged the New Zealand Cabinet to consider his...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
The Clinic Over The Sea (Press, 25 January 1978)
ANNE McHARDY, writing for the “Guardian” on 25 January 1978, highlights the pressing situation in Northern Ireland regarding reproductive rights, drawing parallels with New Zealand. The introduction of divorce and homosexual law reform is imminent, as Roy Mason plans to implement legislation through Orders in Council to align Northern Ireland...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 25 Jan 1975

Spy Tells Of Sex Hold By K.g.b. (Press, 25 January 1975)
John Vassal, a former British diplomat, has released an autobiography detailing his coerced involvement as a Communist spy for the Soviet Union. His book, “The Autobiography of a Spy,” published on 24 January 1975, reveals that he was manipulated into espionage after being threatened by Soviet agents with exposure as...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 25 Jan 1963

Evidence On Spy’s Flat At Inquiry (Press, 25 January 1963)
On 23 January 1963, during a British security inquiry, reporter Norman Frederick Lucas testified about his findings in the flat of convicted Admiralty spy William Vassall. Lucas, a crime reporter for the "Sunday Pictorial," revealed that he discovered an array of unusual items, including perfume, cuddly toys, women’s corsetry catalogues,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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