On This Day: 18th April

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Tue 18 Apr 2023

Sex worker jailed for infecting a client with HIV fighting deportation to NZ
Clayton Palmer was convicted in 2018 on one count of grievous bodily harm...
Links: NZ Herald
LGBTQ+ Activists Hopeful as India’s Supreme Court Hears Final Arguments on...
Links: Express

Thu 18 Apr 2019

'Selfish' Israel Folau's homophobia denounced by Wallabies teammate Will Genia
Israel Folau has been branded "selfish" by Wallabies teammate Will Genia...
Links: Stuff
Brunei to Europe: Don't worry. We probably won't stone too many gay people to death
If a law described by the international community as "appalling" is passed but rarely enforced, is it still appalling?Brunei, the Southeast Asian nation that recently implemented just such a law, is evidently hoping that the answer...
Links: NZ Herald
Doctors use HIV in gene therapy to fix 'bubble boy' disease
Eight babies who were born without ability to fight germs cured with gene therapy made from an enemy of the immune system, HIV...
Links: Stuff
Madonna Unveils 14th Studio Album Titled Madame X
Links: Express

Wed 18 Apr 2018

Craig Watson: Israel Folau's comments harmful
An Australian rugby player's homophobic comments are equivalent to hate speech because he is targeting a marginalised group, says Craig Watson, an Auckland man who is Christian and gay...
Links: RNZ
Gay world club rugby champions slam handling of Israel Folau controversy
Rugby Australia (RA) has been criticised for its handling of the Israel Folau controversy by gay world club rugby champions the Melbourne Chargers...
Links: Stuff
Nigel Owens tells Israel Folau to judge him on his character, not his sexuality
Rugby's highest-profile referee Nigel Owens has urged Israel Folau to judge him on his personality rather than his sexuality...
Links: Stuff

Tue 18 Apr 2017

Chechnya Vigil (Embassy of the Russian Federation in New Zealand)
Audio from the Chechnya Vigil held outside the Russian embassy in Wellington on 18 April 2017.
Features: Amanduh la Whore, Jan Logie, Max Tweedie, Shelley Te Waiariki Howard
Links: PrideNZ.com
African Film Festival Hits Newmarket
Links: Express
Peer support vital for queer and gender diverse youth
Queer and gender diverse youth in West Auckland are finding vital support and a safe place to connect thanks to a young changemaker in the community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Peer support vital for queer and gender diverse youth
Queer and gender diverse youth in West Auckland are finding vital support and a safe place to connect thanks to a young changemaker in the community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Russophilia: Why the Far Right Are Putin's Friends
Russophilia has become the preferred philosophical and foreign policy position of the world's rightist political and social movements...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 18 Apr 2016

Auckland University Students Week Long Celebration of Pride
Links: Express
NZ Transgender Personality to Front Special K Body Positivity Campaign
Links: Express
Crown lays out main 'five planks' of its case
Ihaia Gillman-Harris In summing up the trial of two young men for the murder of Ihia Gillman-Harris, the gay man who died soon after an altercation in an Epsom, Auckland motel in December 2014, the crown has distilled the prosecution case against the accused into five “planks...
Links: GayNZ.com
InsideOUT seek Funding and Finance Coordinator
LGBTI youth organisation, InsideOUT is seeking a new Funding and Finance Coordinator to support the growth of the organisation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Marlon James reveals he underwent "exgay" exorcism
The winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize says he underwent exorcism as part of a therapy pushed by the “ex-gay” religious movement in Jamaica...
Links: GayNZ.com
Matthew Young facing charges related to Shine
It can now be revealed that Hamilton man Matthew John Young, is facing 33 charges of fraud, theft and bankruptcy, relating to 16 different victims, including the now-closed Hamilton gay bar Shine...
Links: GayNZ.com
Takanini Trouble?
Bad news...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 18 Apr 2015

Beyond Rainbows panel discussion (Tapu te Ranga Marae)
Panel members talk about the challenges of being a minority within rainbow communities.
Features: Emilie Rākete, Tabby Besley, unidentified voice(s)
Links: PrideNZ.com
Comedy Fest teaser: DeAnne Smith
Canadian-American lesbian comedian DeAnne Smith is bringing her show Get Into It to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival...
Links: GayNZ.com
Public voting open for Mr Gay World
Matt Fistonich will represent New Zealand Public voting is open for the upcoming Mr Gay World competition, as New Zealand's entrant prepares to take on the world...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 18 Apr 2014

No locusts, just love
Conrad Reyners of the Campaign for Marriage Equality Conrad Reyners of the Campaign for Marriage Equality Activist is finding it hard to believe that it has now been a year since the triumphal moment when, against a background of religious and other objections, Parliament agreed same-sex couples should be able to marry in New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rainbow Wellington hunting for helpers
Rainbow Wellington needs a new volunteer to run its website, while its hardworking Secretary is signalling his intention to stand down a year out, which he hopes will be enough notice for someone to fill his shoes...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 18 Apr 2013

Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP430389.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP430375.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Tagata Pasifika, ref: TZP431093.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Te Karere, ref: TZP430381.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Breakfast, ref: TZP430376.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 18 Apr 2012

Television item (New Zealand)
Close Up, ref: TZP411894.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Gay 'Mozzie' in new reality show The GC
Get It On! model and former Mr Gay NZ contestant Alby Waititi is set to hit the small screen as part of a new reality show following young Maori with big dreams on Australia’s Gold Coast...
Links: GayNZ.com
GenderBridge committee open for nominations
Auckland transgender support, advocacy and education organisation GenderBridge is looking for committee members for the 2012/13 year...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lesbian body artists determined to get to worlds
Photography by Priscilla Northe, of Striped Tees Productions Two leading lesbian body artists are planning to make a splash with a UV body paint party, as they raise funds for their bid to attend the world body painting championships in Austria in July...
Links: GayNZ.com
Taiwan: survey reveals glbt isolation
A survey has found glbt young people grow up feeling isolated and alone in Taiwan...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wedding Belles: Straight and narrow (minded)
GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 18 Apr 2011

Cyber Bullying Task Force set up
In the wake of Pink Shirt Day, a “Cyber Bullying Task Force” has been set up to tackle bullying online...
Links: GayNZ.com
Solidarity, in lavender?
Damien O'Connor accused the Labour Party list of being determined by a 'gaggle of gays' and 'self-serving' unionists...
Links: GayNZ.com
Straight rapper to call new album “I’m Gay”
Rapper Lil B has announced while performing at Coachella that he will name his next album “I'm Gay”, apparently to prove that words don't matter...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 18 Apr 2010

Gay partners given hospital visitation rights
US President Barack Obama signed a memorandum requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and allowing their partners medical power of attorney...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 18 Apr 2009

3 men to face trial in Featherston murder
Three young men suspected of attacking 36-year-old Wairarapa man Paul Irons in October last year, will face a jury trial...
Links: GayNZ.com
Push for marriage equality in New York
In front of a crowded room of reporters and marriage equality advocates, New York Governor David Paterson yesterday re-introduced legislation which would legalise same-sex marriage in the state...
Links: GayNZ.com
Review: The Male Figure in the Art of John Z. Robinson
Review: The Male Figure in the Art of John Z...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 18 Apr 2008

AIDS Foundation needs net-savvy newbies
If you know your way around blogs, Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, YouTube, text messaging, chatrooms and dating websites - and are ready to deal with whatever else is ready to roll out on the internet - then the NZ AIDS Foundation may need your skills for one of three new positions introducing 21st-century ideas to the 23-year-old organisation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ireland: Sperm donor loses access to son
An Irish man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple, enabling one of them to have a baby boy, has lost his High Court bid for guardianship of the boy and access to him, reports RTE News...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 18 Apr 2007

Chch Pride Week official guide out now
After a production issue causing a small delay, the Christchurch Pride Week official printed programme is now available in many of the Garden City's LGBT hotspots...
Links: GayNZ.com
Howard
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been forced to abandon plans to refuse entry to HIV positive migrants and refugees...
Links: GayNZ.com
Response: Homosexual bondage in Rose City!
Palmerston North Cherie Crawford is responding to the "Homosexual bondage in Rose City" article: My sister 'googled' living waters and read the article by Craig Young and I would like to thank you for a well-written article...
Links: GayNZ.com
UniQ Victoria
UniQ Victoria – Victoria University's representative group for queer students and their friends – is proud to announce the return of its annual Traffic Light Party...
Links: GayNZ.com
USA:"Jesus affirmed gay couple"
With help from gay-friendly Christian groups Faith In America and Metropolitan Community Churches, a new campaign from Jesus Metropolitan Community Church of Indianapolis, has begun blanketing the Indianapolis area with billboards challenging Christian assumptions about homosexuality...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 18 Apr 2006

Television item (New Zealand)
Kiwifruit, ref: TZP319589.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Breakfast, ref: TZP319338.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Kiwifruit's Amanda Rees
Amanda Ress Kiwifruit presenter Amanda Rees also acts, writes, directs, would love to meet the Virgin Mary and once worked in Jenny Shipley's office! Who are you and what's your background? Amanda Rees and I graduated from NZ Drama School in 1990...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 18 Apr 2005

Aust. govt protests Fiji gay sex arrest
The Australian government has lodged a protest with Fiji over its treatment of Australian tourist Maxwell McCoscar, who was sentenced to two years prison for engaging in consensual gay sex with adult...
Links: GayNZ.com
Electoral $$ for Destiny, National Front
Destiny New Zealand, the National Front and Christian Heritage NZ have been allocated around $70,000 worth of taxpayer funds to seed their advertising and television campaigns in this year's general election...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 18 Apr 2004

"United Future should dump Labour"
United Future has come under more pressure to withdraw its support for Labour in the wake of the civil union debate, this time from Christian Heritage...
Links: GayNZ.com
Herald apologises to Barnett
The New Zealand Herald editor has apologised for publishing a reader's letter containing a death threat to Christchurch Labour MP Tim Barnett...
Links: GayNZ.com
Three parents for toddler
The family court has decided that an Auckland toddler will have three parents, his biological mother, her lesbian partner and their gay sperm donor, the Sunday Star-Times reports today under the misleading headline "Gay men win legal fight for toddler"...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 18 Apr 2002

Television item (New Zealand)
Qn, ref: TZP256518.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 18 Apr 2000

Television item (New Zealand)
Queer Nation, ref: TZP227433.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 18 Apr 1997

Television item (New Zealand)
Out There, ref: TZP183589.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP184127.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 18 Apr 1995

The domain name nz.com is registered (New Zealand)
In the mid-late-1990s nz.com hosted the first internet pages for numerous rainbow LGBTI groups
Links: WhoIs

Sat 18 Apr 1992

The National Gay Rights Coalition Hui Aranga Easter gathering is held (New Zealand)

Sat 18 Apr 1987

Isabel Hight — Ma’am, At Times Miss Or... (Press, 18 April 1987)
Isabel Hight, a 32-year-old New Zealand woman, holds a unique position as the only female superintendent of a men’s prison in Australia, specifically at the Metropolitan Reception Prison in Long Bay, Sydney. Having grown up in Ashburton and studied at the University of Canterbury, her career in the New South...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 18 Apr 1986

‘Gay’ Discrimination Vote ‘disappointing’ (Press, 18 April 1986)
On 18 April 1986, Mr Graeme MacCormick, the alternate chairman of the Human Rights Commission, expressed disappointment following a Parliamentary vote that rejected a key provision of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. This provision aimed to prevent discrimination against homosexuals, and its removal was seen as contrary to the Commission's...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Aust. Girl, Aged 3, Has A.i.d.s.—family (Press, 18 April 1986)
On 18 April 1986, it was reported that Eve van Grafhorst, a three-year-old girl from Kincumber, New South Wales, was diagnosed with Aids following blood tests conducted in Napier, New Zealand. This diagnosis came after her family sought clarity due to inconsistent test results from Sydney. Eve's grandmother, Marion Taylor,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Clerks Vote In Favour Of 'gay’ Law (Press, 18 April 1986)
On 18 April 1986, the Clerical Workers’ Union in Wellington announced its endorsement of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, supporting it in its entirety. The union's acting secretary, Ms Christine Gillespie, stated that they rejected any form of discrimination against clerical workers that affected their job opportunities, wages, promotions, or...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Defeat Of Bill Feared (Press, 18 April 1986)
The A.I.D.S. Foundation has expressed grave concerns regarding the potential rejection of Part I of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill by Parliament, which aims to decriminalise consensual sexual activities among males over the age of 16. Kate Leslie, the chairman of the foundation, stated that if Part I were to...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Muldoon Man To Seek Nomination (Press, 18 April 1986)
John Rowe, a resident of Frankton and owner of a car painting business, has declared his intention to seek the National Party nomination for the Hamilton West electorate. This announcement comes after Rowe previously sold his coffee bar to help support Sir Robert Muldoon's return to leadership within the National...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Rejection Of Clause Upsets Homosexuals (Press, 18 April 1986)
On 18 April 1986, the ongoing discussion surrounding the Homosexual Law Reform Bill highlighted significant concerns about the rights of homosexual men in New Zealand. While the bill aimed to decriminalise consensual sexual activity between males aged 16 and over, campaigners expressed disappointment over the rejection of a crucial anti-discrimination...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 18 Apr 1985

Homosexual Law Changes (Press, 18 April 1985)
On 18 April 1985, several letters to the editor appeared in response to the ongoing debate surrounding the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand. Varian J. Wilson defended the legacy of notable homosexual writers, such as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, highlighting the cultural contributions made by creative individuals...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Homosexual Law Changes What The New Legislation... (Press, 18 April 1985)
The Homosexual Law Reform Bill, currently in Parliament, aims to eliminate criminal penalties for consensual homosexual acts between males and to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The legislation has two main components. The first part amends the Crimes Act of 1961 to remove criminal sanctions related to male homosexual...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 18 Apr 1984

Conference For Lesbians, Gays (Press, 18 April 1984)
Christchurch is set to host the largest lesbian and gay rights conference in the South Island later this month, running from April 21 to April 24, 1984. The event is expected to attract around 150 participants from across New Zealand. The conference will feature a range of workshops addressing various...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Legal Action Over Play (Press, 18 April 1984)
The Suter Gallery in Nelson faces the possibility of legal action for banning Garry Beveridge's production of "The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin," written by Australian playwright Steve J. Spears. Beveridge has initiated legal proceedings against the gallery and plans to escalate the matter to court if it is not resolved...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 18 Apr 1978

Gays Sad About Glad Song Ban (Press, 18 April 1978)
The Wellington Gay Liberation Movement has expressed outrage over Radio New Zealand's decision to ban the British record "Sing if You're Glad to be Gay," labelling it as “blatant and unjustifiable discrimination” against homosexuals. A spokesperson for the movement, known only as Mr Hunt, pointed out that the song, which...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Sir Alfred Might Give More Details Of Moyle... (Press, 18 April 1978)
The ongoing discussion regarding the release of the full transcript from the Moyle inquiry, led by Sir Alfred North, is a focus of attention as Attorney-General Mr Wilkinson is set to have further talks with Sir Alfred. This comes after Prime Minister Mr Muldoon was questioned by journalists at a...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 18 Apr 1970

Homosexual Pair (Press, 18 April 1970)
On 17 April 1970, church leaders in Sydney unanimously dismissed a proposal for a marriage service for homosexual men and women, labelling it as “surprising” and “absurd.” The suggestion was made by Professor R. G. Tanner, a classics professor at the University of Newcastle, during a discussion at the New...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sun 18 Apr 1915

The Taranaki Daily News reports on the court case of Ellehan Eppheam (a.k.a Miss de Vien) who has posed as a woman for 15 years (London, United Kingdom)
The report documents a court appearance where the chief constable believes Eppheam has symptoms of insanity.
Links: Papers Past

Thu 18 Apr 1889

News Of The Day. (Press, 18 April 1889)
On 18 April 1889, various reports and updates were published in the Press regarding events in New Zealand. The next day being Good Friday, there would be no issue of the newspaper. A cable message indicated that Lord Onslow had departed Sydney for Auckland, and Sir John and Lady Hall...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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