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Tue 31 Jan 2023

'A trailblazing effort' - Rugby figures line up to back first openly gay All Black Campbell Johnstone
New Zealand rugby legends have come out in support of Campbell Johnstone, came out publicly as gay on TVNZ last night...
Links: RNZ
'Like a stigma's been lifted': Lyndon Bray's praise for Campbell Johnstone
Last year, the openly gay Tasman chief executive was calling for greater acceptance in rugby...
Links: Stuff
Alice Soper: How a gay All Black will help open doors
OPINION: Johnstone is now the friendly face for all those still hovering in the doorway...
Links: NZ Herald
Australia: Mining giant 'sorry' for missing radioactive capsule
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the hunt for a missing radioactive capsule from a Rio Tinto mine in the Pilbara that's about the size of a pea...
Links: RNZ
Campbell Johnstone reveals himself to be first openly gay All Black
In a huge moment for NZ's rainbow community, the ex-All Blacks prop hopes to "open that door and magically make that closet disappear" for other athletes...
Links: Stuff
First out, gay All Black Campbell Johnstone 'humbled' by his story's global reach
Campbell Johnstone never expected the response he's received after publicly coming out but hopes his decision will help others...
Links: Stuff
Gay rugby clubs applaud ex-All Black Campbell Johnstone's decision to come out
Campbell Johnstone's decision is a major step towards visibility of Rainbow community in sport, gay rugby advocates say...
Links: Stuff
NZ rugby legends show support for first openly gay All Black
New Zealand rugby legends have come out in support of the first openly gay All Black...
Links: RNZ
Rainbow rights group want to protest at George Pell's funeral
We begin this morning in Australia, Nathan Rarere is joined from Brisbane by Pam Corkery...
Links: RNZ
Rugby community worldwide praise first openly gay All Black
The rugby community in New Zealand and around the world are hailing Campbell Johnstone as a trailblazer after the former Crusaders prop came out as the first openly gay All Black...
Links: RNZ
Why first openly gay All Black Campbell Johnstone is a big deal
ANALYSIS: The careless slurs used predominantly by teenage boys and young men have lost their sting after Campbell Johnstone’s announcement...
Links: Stuff
PEACHING TO THE CONVERTED
Links: Express
Transitioning While Working At NZ Police
Links: Express
WHANGANUI PRIDE WEEK – All You Need To Know
Links: Express

Mon 31 Jan 2022

Trump Promises To Ban Trans Athletes If Re-Elected In 2024
Links: Express
U.S Military Facing Lawsuit After Accusations That Senior Management Pressured Staff...
Links: Express

Sun 31 Jan 2021

New Australian blood donation rules for gay men don't go far enough, advocates say
New blood donation rules for gay men have come into effect on Sunday in Australia allowing them to give blood if they have been celibate for three months...
Links: NZ Herald

Fri 31 Jan 2020

New emoji for 2020: Woman in a tux, transgender flag, ninjas
The transgender flag, a woman in a tuxedo, and a gender-neutral alternative to Santa Claus will all be represented in new emoji to be released in 2020...
Links: NZ Herald
FRENCH CLUB UNDER FIRE AFTER FOLAU SIGNING
Links: Express
LITTLE NAS X OPENS UP ABOUT PUBLICLY COMING OUT
Links: Express
No Fats, No Femmes, No Empathy
Links: Express
Superlative Sports Car : BMW’s New Z4
Links: Express

Thu 31 Jan 2019

Gov. Bevin, Kentucky clerk at odds over attorneys' fees
FRANKFORT, Ky...
Links: NZ Herald
LGBT community steps in to make sure NZ sees conversion film
After a decision to not release the 2018 film about gay conversion therapy, Boy Erased in New Zealand due to its commercial viability, the rainbow community has stepped in to make sure that the film is screened around the country during various ...
Links: Scoop
Shortland Street actor braces for backlash as Nicole gives her baby away
Sally Martin is bracing herself for the mother of all backlashes in the wake of Ferndale nurse Nicole Miller's decision to give her baby away to a gay couple...
Links: Stuff
Auckland Pride Board Member Goes on Expletive-Laden Rant, While Mika Questions...
Links: Express
Horror as Empire’s Jussie Smollett Becomes Victim of Racist and Homophobic...
Links: Express

Wed 31 Jan 2018

South Auckland social worker Torranice Campel supports transgender children
Torranice Campelâ provides vulnerable youngsters in south Auckland with comfort, support, and acceptance...
Links: Stuff
There’s no room for bigotry in sport, so why is harassment still rife?
ANALYSIS: Homophobia, racism and sexism are still rife in New Zealand sports environments...
Links: Stuff
An Art Lover’s Escape
Links: Express
New Spit Test Will Detect HIV After Just Two Weeks
Links: Express
Review: Hipster Heaven
Links: Express

Tue 31 Jan 2017

National Pride March to Follow in Footsteps of Women’s March
Links: Express
Potential LGBT+ Prison in Thailand
Links: Express
Premier Andrews Calls for Marriage Equality in 2017 at Pride March
Links: Express
Corrections asked to withdraw Parade application
The Auckland Pride Festival Board has asked the Department of Corrections to withdraw its application to march in next month's Auckland Pride Parade...
Links: GayNZ.com
Pride's letter asking Corrections to withdraw parade application
The following is the text of an undated letter from an Auckland Pride Festival board member to the Department of Corrections asking the Department to withdraw its application to participate in the Auckland Pride Parade 2017...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trump rumoured to have drafted LGBTI Exec Order
US President Donald Trump is rumoured to have drafted an executive order regarding LGBTI rights that could include allowing employment discrimination, allowing taxpayer-funded workers to refuse service to LGBTI people and discrimination pardoned under the guise of “religious freedom”...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 31 Jan 2016

Jools Topp to sell her dream rural property
Jools (right) and Lynda Topp Skyrocketing Auckland region house prices have forced Jools Topp to put the dream home she and her now ex-partner created near Helensville up for sale...
Links: GayNZ.com
No Pride Parade-style restrictions for Big Gay Out
While the Auckland Pride Festival wrestles with participation decisions for the forthcoming Auckland Pride Parade, the organisers of the Festival's other signature event say there will be no Parade-like restrictions on participation in the Big Gay Out...
Links: GayNZ.com
RY seek Executive Advisors to the Board
RainbowYOUTH is seeking executive advisors who are interested in mentoring and youth development to join our governance board in a voluntary capacity...
Links: GayNZ.com
What to expect: Proud to Play
Registrations for Proud to Play close today and things are starting to take shape ahead of the big Auckland sporting festival...
Links: GayNZ.com
When in Rome...? (or Athens)
Trailing the rest of Western Europe, Italy is once again embarking on the torturous route to civil unions and relationship equality, several months after the second to last holdout, Greece, legislated for relationship equality...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 31 Jan 2015

Cash-strapped Club Q could close
Palmerston North's Club Q will hold a Special General Meeting next month to decide its future, with its closure one of the options on the table...
Links: GayNZ.com
Conspiratoria Nullia?
Where have all the antigay conspiracy theories gone? And why were they more common thirty years or so ago? Caution: Utter balderdash ahead...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF sees solid rise in HIV testing rate
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation's HIV testing rate rose in the second half of 2014, and it hopes offering free tests at next weekend’s Big Gay Out will help keep the momentum going...
Links: GayNZ.com
What Leelah and Charlotte mean to me
WHAT LEELAH AND CHARLOTTE MEAN TO ME ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 31 Jan 2014

Bringing Lick home
New Zealander Natalie Zibung has made a name for herself across the Tasman running classy women’s events under the Lick brand...
Links: GayNZ.com
Entries open for Mr Gay New Zealand 2014
The hunt has begun for the next Mr Gay New Zealand, after two successive Kiwi representatives have gone on to take the Mr Gay World title...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rainbow Tick to be launched with Pride
The Rainbow Tick will be officially launched during the Auckland Pride Festival at an event MC’d by comedian Urzila Carlson...
Links: GayNZ.com
UKIP: Colin's Cousins???
Adverse Perception of UKIP Conservative Party leader Colin Craig fancies his party as a New Zealand equivalent of the United Kingdom Independence Party...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Historic ruling in trans schoolgirl case
Nicole Maines with her twin brother Jonas A judge in Maine's highest court has ruled transgender students must have full access to school facilities...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 31 Jan 2013

Dashing dates up for grabs
Fancy an evening with Mr Gay World? A date with a hottie on Waiheke or a kayaking trip with a foxy guy followed by dinner on a beach...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay Ski Week 2013 to raise funds for NZAF
Sally Whitewoods The organisers of the revived Gay Ski Week say the event will return to Queenstown in August and September, and this time around they want to give something back to the community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hague honours "brave" and "generous" submitters
Kevin Hague Kevin Hague says the submission process on the marriage equality bill has been arduous, but is paying tribute to the “brave, honest and generous” pro-submitters who shared their stories...
Links: GayNZ.com
No police group entry in Auckland Pride Parade
Dutch police in an Amsterdam Pride parade In a significant reduction of a hoped-for presence, gay and lesbian police officers will not be marching as a group in the forthcoming Auckland Pride parade although a small number will be incorporated into another float...
Links: GayNZ.com
Pro-gay track "Same Love" hits number one
Ryan Lewis and Macklemore A song with a powerful pro marriage equality and gay pride message has shot to the top spot in the New Zealand singles chart...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 31 Jan 2012

Aussie watchdog throws out Libra complaint
Australia’s advertising watchdog has thrown out a complaint about a Libra ad which upset transgender advocacy groups on both sides of the Tasman...
Links: GayNZ.com
Got art?
Amateur and professional artists are being sought to take part in the second Under the Rainbow art exhibition in the capital, which will raise funds for volunteer event producing group Out Wellington...
Links: GayNZ.com
Morehu-Barlow to plead guilty in fraud case
Hohepa Morehu-Barlow The gay New Zealand man accused of taking millions of dollars from Queensland Health will plead guilty to fraud on March 1, his lawyer says...
Links: GayNZ.com
Stabbing victim liked younger men - report
File photo A gay man stabbed to death in Rotorua is reported to have had a history of making advances towards younger men...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 31 Jan 2011

Aunty Wai Mason profile (Auckland)
Features: Aunty Wai Mason
Links: PrideNZ.com
Jonathan Smith profile (Auckland)
Jonathan Smith talks about growing up and creating, and running the Queen of the Whole Universe beauty pageant
Features: Jonathan Smith
Links: PrideNZ.com
Lynda Topp gets intrepid
Lynda Topp's musical expedition through Tajikistan features in this week's episode of TV One's much-loved travel series Intrepid Journeys...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mixed glbt results at SAG Awards
Jesse Tyler Ferguson ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Robertson tipped to charge up the ranks
Grant Robertson Rainbow Labour MP Grant Robertson is tipped to be moved further up his party ranks when leader Phil Goff announced a reshuffle ahead of this year's general election...
Links: GayNZ.com
Student comes out to her whole school
YouTube - 31st January 2011...
Links: GayNZ.com
Support for arson victims in full bloom
There has been incredible support on a Facebook page set up in solidarity with the couple A stream of fundraisers have been planned across the country for the Northland lesbian couple whose business was destroyed in a hate crime...
Links: GayNZ.com
Thai airline PC Air recruits trans staff
Thanyarat 'Film' Jiraphatpakorn A Thai airline recruiting transgender staff has already taken on three trans women this week in its first round of hiring...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 31 Jan 2010

GABA monthly meets move to Dot's bar
The year's first Gay Auckland Business Association monthly meeting will be in its new home - the friendly gay-owned bar Dot's on Symonds Street...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hawaii's civil union bill is shelved
Hawaii lawmakers have indefinitely shelved a bill which would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sharing ownership of the NZAF's progress
"The NZAF has a vision of a world without HIV and AIDS, and aims to achieve this through our mission of preventing the transmission of HIV and supporting people affected by HIV and AIDS to maximise their health and wellbeing...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 31 Jan 2009

New Pepsi ad prompts homophobic boycott
A new gay-friendly TV ad for Pepsi has angered an anti-gay lobby group who are now encouraging a boycott of the soft drink...
Links: GayNZ.com
Out Takes Film Festival returns for 2009
After a quiet 2008, the Reel Queer team says planning for the Out Takes LGBT Film Festival's return this year is going very well - but more volunteers are needed in Auckland and Christchurch...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 31 Jan 2008

Al Gore speaks up in favour of gay marriage
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore says he's in favour of marriage for gay and lesbian couples...
Links: GayNZ.com
Chch: Man sexually assaulted in toilet block
Police in Christchurch are seeking witnesses after a 57-year-old man was sexually attacked and robbed in a park toilet block...
Links: GayNZ.com
Christian Right: Spanking the Kiwi
Kiwi Party leader Larry Baldock At present, the Christian Right is mostly quiescent, apart from the rumblings of Family First and the oddly renamed Kiwi Party...
Links: GayNZ.com
London: Easter finale for Trade at Turnmills
Long-running London nightclub Turnmills have announced they'll be presenting their last ever gay-themed Trade parties over Easter Weekend, an impressive 23 years after the venue first opened...
Links: GayNZ.com
Melbourne: Low turnouts for Midsumma fest
Opinions are divided over the causes of disappointing ticket sales for some of major events of Melbourne's annual Midsumma LGBT Festival this year, with turnouts substantially lower than last year and several events facing last-minute cancellation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Warning after HIV+ male sex worker's NZ trip
NZ's Ministry of Health has issued a warning about an Australian male sex worker who visited New Zealand over the Christmas break and has since been prosecuted in Canberra for knowingly infecting people with HIV...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 31 Jan 2007

Jerusalem's first same-sex marriage
The Interior Ministry's Jerusalem office has recorded the first same-sex marriage - three months after the country's highest court directed the government to register gay marriages performed outside of Israel...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sydney Mardi Gras
A sponsorship deal involving international dating website Gaydar has locked rival online groups out of the Mardi Gras parade on 3 March and the festival's Fair Day on 18 February...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wellness funds grow in Heroic Gardens
Proceeds from this year's Heroic Gardens festival will be donated for the first time to the NZAF Wellness Fund Ref: NZAF, GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 31 Jan 2006

Hero kicks off with GABA launch
Auckland's annual gay pride festival Hero kicks off tomorrow night with a launch party hosted by the Gay Auckland Business Association...
Links: GayNZ.com
Music Festival features queer band
This year sees the launch of the Mount Cook Music Festival in Wellington, where upcoming queer band A Band Called Dave will be featuring in their biggest gig to date...
Links: GayNZ.com
To ASBO or not to ASBO?
In 1998, the UK's Blair administration introduced Asbos (anti-social behaviour orders) as part of its new criminal justice legislation...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 31 Jan 2005

My partner has wandering eyes
Lately my partner of 6 years is constantly eyeing cute young men (we're in our early 30s)...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 31 Jan 2004

Care of Children bill only for gays
NZ First list MP Dail Jones has hit out at the Government's Care of Children Bill, saying it has no useful purpose and that its only supporters are gays and lesbians...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 31 Jan 2003

NZAF clarifies its position following criticism
New Zealand AIDS Foundation director Kevin Hague addresses and rebuts comments made by GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 31 Jan 2002

Television item (New Zealand)
One Late Edition, ref: TZP252922.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 31 Jan 1997

Television item (New Zealand)
Out There, ref: TZP181573.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 31 Jan 1996

Television item (New Zealand)
One Network News, ref: TZP165904.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 31 Jan 1987

A.i.d.s. Not Spread By Sufferers ‘well-known’ (Press, 31 January 1987)
On 31 January 1987, a spokesman from the Wellington Lesbian and Gay Resource Centre, Mr Phil Parkinson, addressed the longstanding misconception regarding the contagion of A.I.D.S. According to Parkinson, the gay community had long been aware that individuals suffering from A.I.D.S. are not contagious. This topic gained attention during the...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
President Asserts Himself In Clemency Case (Press, 31 January 1987)
On 31 January 1987, Greek President Christos Sartzetakis faced intense criticism from the Greek media and the public due to his refusal to grant clemency in a high-profile murder case. This decision came after the Justice Ministry had recommended reducing the life sentence of convicted murderer Christos Roussos, who had...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 31 Jan 1986

Christian Meetings (Press, 31 January 1986)
In a letter published on 31 January 1986, M. Davey responds to the arguments made by S. Mannix and H. G. Oram, both supporters of the Christian perspective. Davey contends that the serious demeanor of Christians, as illustrated by their heavy reliance on biblical quotations, suggests a lack of happiness...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television item (New Zealand)
Hudson And Halls, ref: TZP7120.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 31 Jan 1977

Strong Programmes In Line For Television One (Press, 31 January 1977)
On 31 January 1977, the television programme “The Naked Civil Servant” is set to premiere on TV1. This acclaimed British production is a biographical portrayal of Quentin Crisp, a self-identified homosexual, and stars actor John Hurt, whose performance garnered him the Actor of the Year Award. The film, based on...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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