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Fri 7 Apr 2023

  • Daniel M. Lavery: the awkwardness of gender transition
    Daniel M...
    Links: RNZ
  • Editorial: Does gender diversity belong in sport? Hint: Yes
    Opinion: Our editorial on the tender topic of transgender athletes...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Rainbow advocates slam delay of self-ID process for people born overseas
    "How many people won’t be able to open a bank account, study, or access healthcare?" Asks a support group for LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers...
    Links: Stuff
  • US would bar full ban on trans athletes but allow exceptions
    Transgender athletes were concerned that the measure did not go far enough...
    Links: NZ Herald

Thu 7 Apr 2022

  • Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
    Sam breaks down the Tiger Woods hype train, and he has reaction to Super Rugby Pacific's red card crackdown...
    Links: RNZ

Wed 7 Apr 2021

  • A third of maternal ICU admissions preventable, says reseacher
    There are growing calls by women for better access to healthcare, and for the government to create a National Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Action Plan...
    Links: RNZ
  • Ministry of Justice on Māori crime victimisation
    The Ministry of Justice has found that Māori are more likely to be victims of crime than any other ethnic group in New Zealand...
    Links: RNZ
  • New Relationship And Sexuality Resources Will Empower School Teachers To Implement Updated Guidelines
    New relationships and sexuality education (RSE) guidelines are out – and teachers and leaders are getting support to bring the guidelines to life in their schools...
    Links: Scoop
  • Tennis great Sam Stosur opens up on the moment she realised she was done hiding her sexuality and partner
    The moment US Open winner realised her internal conflict over sexuality couldn't go on...
    Links: Stuff
  • Tennis: Sam Stosur on the moment she was done hiding her sexuality
    It was the Instagram post that changed everything...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Women gather at Parliament demanding female health strategy
    On Wednesday women took to Parliament's steps to call out sexism in health, demanding a women's health strategy...
    Links: RNZ
  • Why We Need Trans People Telling Trans Stories
    Links: Express

Tue 7 Apr 2020

  • Allies in Self-Isolation: Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye
    Links: Express
  • Exclusive: Departing Police Commissioner Mike Bush “Proud” of Police Relationship with...
    Links: Express
  • Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: Aaron Von Phillippe
    Links: Express
  • Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: Scotty and Mal
    Links: Express
  • Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: The Team at OUTLine
    Links: Express
  • NZ Keeps Gay Blood Donation Laws at 12 Months
    Links: Express
  • UK Support Organisation Urges LGBTI+ Youth To Delay Coming-Out During Lockdown
    Links: Express

Sun 7 Apr 2019

  • Historian Gavin McLean dies (Wellington, New Zealand)
  • America's first gay president? The rising Democrat candidate aiming to make history
    Peter Buttigieg is not like any other US presidential candidate – in part, if not exclusively, because he is gay...
    Links: Stuff
  • Is Ariana Grande bisexual? Here's why that question is problematic
    OPINION: We don't need to put LGBTQ labels on celebs who don't feel the need to label themselves...
    Links: Stuff
  • The Baileys cast as Coronation Street's first black family
    The Baileys will also put a spotlight on homophobia in sport...
    Links: Stuff
  • The Baileys cast as Coronation Street's first black family
    The Baileys will also put a spotlight on homophobia in sport...
    Links: Stuff
  • Gay Conversion Therapy App Finally Removed From Google’s Play Store
    Links: Express
  • The Night They Arrested a Female Impersonator on K Road
    Links: Express

Fri 7 Apr 2017

  • Australian MP Believes LGBT+ People Can ‘Become’ Straight
    Links: Express
  • Barry Manilow Breaks Silence on His Sexuality
    Links: Express
  • Dutch Men Hold Hands in Solidarity with Attacked Gay Couple
    Links: Express
  • Gay Banker Fired After Posting Photos of Engagement To Fiancé
    Links: Express
  • NZAF campaign reaffirms importance of prevention
    The New Zealand AIDS Foundation are reaffirming the importance of condom use and providing the public with information about PrEP as the country faces the highest number of HIV diagnoses ever...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Lincoln in the Bardo
    At first sight, this might seem an odd place to review a brilliant piece of experimental fiction, so some explanation is in order...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2016

  • Canterbury Queer Youth Support Group Q-Topia Seeks New Board
    Links: Express
  • For Italian Design Connoisseurs
    Links: Express
  • GABA Charitable Trust Gifts Over $10,000 to Community Groups
    Links: Express
  • Overwhelming Favour for GABA Name Change
    Links: Express
  • The Simpsons Praised For Mr Smithers’ Understated Coming Out Episode
    Links: Express
  • Barber refuses to speak about trans discrimination
    The Auckland barber shop involved in an incident of alleged discrimination in which a trans person was refused service and told it was because they are “not actually a man” is avoiding discussing the matter with a glbti community journalist...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hushed court views footage from Epsom motel
    Ihaia Gillman-Harris In a hushed courtroom at the High Court in Auckland security camera footage of the periods before and after the attack on gay man Ihaia Gillman-Harris were played this morning, showing him arriving with his two alleged attackers, that pair leaving in his vehicle and the victim emerging from a motel unit in a bloodied and confused state...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pillow Talk
    “I want to get married and have kids...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Qtopia AGM to be held this month
    Canterbury LGBTI youth organisation Q-topia has announced the date for its Annual General Meeting...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • What Went Wrong in Australia?
    What can New Zealand LGBTI community welfare and youth organisations learn from the debacle against Safe Schools in Australia?   1...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 7 Apr 2015

  • Easter at Family
    Links: Express
  • Out in The (Car)Park Wellington
    Links: Express
  • Private, professional Keller remembered
    Vern Keller Vern Keller, the long-serving NZ AIDS Foundation librarian and researcher who died suddenly at the weekend is being remembered for his professionalism, skill and sense of humour...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Trailer: Bessie
    Queen Latifah stars in an upcoming HBO biopic about jazz singer Bessie Smith, who proudly loved both women and men...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2014

  • "Women are more sensual" - Debbie Harry
    Debbie Harry...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Advocate stunned by death of ally and friend
    Dr Charles Farthing has died in Hong Kong The death of Kiwi HIV/AIDS pioneer Dr Charles Farthing has left a New Zealand advocate utterly shocked and shattered...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Auditions open for trans short film actors
    Auditions are being held for a New Zealand Film Commission funded short which centres on a story of gender transition...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Blaze which claimed HLR papers suspicious
    The storage shed fire/Twitter Police believe a blaze at a storage facility which has destroyed historical Homosexual Law Reform documents was deliberately lit...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Charles Farthing "will be greatly missed"
    Dr Charles Farthing has died in Hong Kong Merck Sharp   ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • HIV/AIDS pioneer Charles Farthing dies
    Dr Charles Farthing New Zealander and global HIV/AIDS pioneer Charles Farthing has died...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Standing up to Craig
    We asked two of our Pasifika community members to respond to Colin Craig's homophobic rally in South Auckland, and his claim ALL Pasifika people “reject” marriage equality...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 7 Apr 2013

  • Robin Duff profile (Auckland)
    Robin Duff talks about many of the activist groups he was involved with in the 1970s and being the first openly gay man in New Zealand to stand for Parliament.
    Features: Robin Duff
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Irons says incest claims were “mischievous”
    Actor Jeremy Irons maintains he is not anti-gay, following his claims that same-sex marriage could lead to fathers marrying their sons...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Letterman lets rip
    While speaking to lesbian journalist Rachel Maddow, David Letterman lets his frustration about anti-gay discrimination out: "I'm just sick and tired, and I think it has really crossed the line of being nonsense...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NFL players could be about to come out
    Linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo posing for the NOH8 campaign An NFL player and equal rights advocate says several American football players could be on the verge of historically coming out, all on the same day...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney’s rainbow crossing to be dug up
    The short life of the rainbow crossing on Sydney’s Oxford St is about to come to an end, with officials saying people stopping to pose for pictures on it are making it a safety hazard...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Trial over killing of ChCh teen begins Monday
    Gavin Gosnell The trial for the man accused of murdering gay Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles begins tomorrow...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Why Mugabe's not welcome
    A visit from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, thankfully, seems unlikely...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2011

  • Firing of anti-gay Wal-Mart screamer justified
    An American appellate court has ruled that a Chicago Wal-Mart was justified in firing a Christian woman who screamed a tirade of anti-gay remarks at a fellow staff member...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay content returning to From Here To Eternity
    The book was turned into a major film in 1953 The 1951 novel From Here to Eternity is to be reissued digitally with its previously censored gay content restored...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mental Health Foundation makes pink pledge
    Mental Health Foundation staff are pledging to wear pink next Thursday and are calling on all New Zealanders to join them in taking a stand against bullying on Pink Shirt Day...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sexuality
    Billy Joel sings that “Honesty is such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Stonewall doco to screen at Out Takes
    A documentary featuring firsthand accounts of the bitter and momentous Stonewall riots will be screened at Out Takes 2011...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wall ready to get back in the game
    Louisa Wall (right) with Labour MP Maryan Street at the Big Gay Out After a couple of weeks waiting on the sidelines, Louisa Wall is about to be back in the game...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 7 Apr 2010

  • Single tournament will strengthen communities
    The co-chair of the AsiaPacific Outgames believes the decision to host just one major global gay sports tournament from 2018 will bring more unity to gay sporting communities...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Single tournament will strengthen communities
    The co-chair of the AsiaPacific Outgames believes the decision to host just one major global gay sports tournament from 2018 will bring more unity to gay sporting communities...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 7 Apr 2009

  • Drag divas will battle at sinful Easter party
    Two of Auckland's most popular drag entertainers will stage a "battle of the Egyptian Queens" at Good Friday's Easter Paradise party...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Untouchable Girls - The Topp Twins Movie
    "A love letter to New Zealand" sums the Topp Twins Movie up beautifully...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Russian gay event promoters found guilty
    Two Russian gay activists have been found guilty of 'promoting homosexuality to minors' and fined 1,500 rubles (NZ$76) each...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2008

  • 'Out' at school, and now on internet radio
    Gay Line Wellington has launched the first of a ten-part series of interviews with LGBT students about the issues 'out' young people face today...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Getting into shape: How to stay motivated
    No more excuses! GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Getting into shape: How to stay motivated
    No more excuses! GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wellington's gay geeks are invited to dinner
    A get-together for both male and female 'gay geeks' in Wellington will be an opportunity to "embrace your inner geekdom" by meeting other gay geeks and putting faces to their internet nicknames...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 7 Apr 2007

  • AUS: Another
    The South Australian State Government says twelve men may have contracted HIV from Stuart McDonald, a gay man now detained for recklessly endangering his sexual partners...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Disney Fairy Tale Weddings for gay unions
    The Walt Disney Co...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 7 Apr 2006

  • Freedom! The day our gay world changed
    AN INVITATION  In mid-1986, after much acrimonious debate the NZ Parliament voted to end hundreds of years of persecution of homosexual men...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2005

  • Editorial: One kid's choice
    "Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice that he wouldn't want his two young sons to make, says Labour MP John Tamihere...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Editorial: One kid's choice
    "Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice that he wouldn't want his two young sons to make, says Labour MP John Tamihere...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GLBT safety in schools conference
    Youth advocacy group Out There is to hold a national conference in June focussing on safety in schools for LGBT youth...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Novelist Bill Edginton
    Bill Edginton Gay community volunteer and retired educator Bill Edginton has written a novel, From Freyberg, which encompases gay men's relationships and place in society...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Reassignment surgery - Medical and social neccessity
    Destiny New Zealand and Libertarianz seem to agree that pre-operative transpeople should be denied neccessary medical treatment, namely subsidised reassignment surgery...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tamihere comments "utter rot"
    Gay media representatives have hit back at homophobic slurs from Labour MP John Tamihere, given in an interview to a fundamentalist Christian journalist...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tamihere: Homosexuality a lifestyle choice
    Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice that he wouldn't want his two young sons to make, says Labour MP John Tamihere, who has apologised but not backed away from a series of homophobic statements made in an interview to a fundamentalist Christian journalist...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2003

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Documentary New Zealand, ref: TZP270450.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Bowling organisation hands out profits
    $14,000 proceeds from last October's International Gay Bowling Tournament, held in Auckland, have been distributed mostly to gay organisations...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 7 Apr 2002

Sun 7 Apr 1991

  • Television current affairs: documentary about a sex worker who is HIV+ (Australia)
    60 minutes, ref F103607.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Mon 7 Apr 1980

  • Television: National Gay Rights Coalition (NGRC) conference in Dunedin (Dunedin, New Zealand)
    ref: TZP125022.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 7 Apr 1973

  • Miss Porter Needs Better Scripts (Press, 7 April 1973)
    On 7 April 1973, it was reported that Thursday continues to be the weakest viewing night for television audiences. The episode of "The Protectors" featuring Nyree Dawn Porter was deemed particularly disappointing. While Porter's previous role in "The Forsyte Saga" had garnered pride among New Zealanders, her portrayal of a...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 7 Apr 1970

  • Composer Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears tour New Zealand (New Zealand)
    The visit was part of a tour to generate money for the rebuilding of the concert hall at The Maltings.
    Links: Music Web

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