On This Day: 10th May

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Wed 10 May 2023

Appeals Court in Poland Rules in Favour of LGBTQ+ Activists in...
Links: Express

Tue 10 May 2022

New rainbow Indian organisation hopes to support 'minorities within a minority'
Indian Origin Pride NZ wants to educate the wider community about sexuality, and there are hopes that it could lead ethnic communities to discuss taboo topics...
Links: Stuff
Opinion: It Might Be Easier, But It Still Isn’t Easy
Links: Express

Mon 10 May 2021

Upcoming Exhibition To Launch New QTBIPOC Arts Platform
Āhua Collective is a new platform committed to empowering QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black/Indigenous/People of Colour) artists and decolonising our creative future...
Links: Scoop
Richard O’Brien Announced As 2021’s Rainbow Celebration Gala’s Guest Of Honour
Links: Express

Sun 10 May 2020

Resonance walk tour (Wellington)
Join the team from Walk Tours NZ for the Resonance walk tour in Wellington
Features: Gareth Watkins, Roger Smith
Links: PrideNZ.com
No Bail For Men Arrested In Ugandan LGBT+ Homeless Shelter
Links: Express
Vatican Charity Donates Money To Italian Transgender Sex Workers
Links: Express

Fri 10 May 2019

Qantas CEO breaks silence on Israel Folau
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has broken his silence on the Israel Folau scandal, saying he supports Rugby Australia (RA) for taking action against the star's latest controversial social media post...
Links: NZ Herald
Transgender prisoner investigated for sexual assault behind bars
Corrections is investigating several serious allegations, including sexual assault, made against a transgender prisoner...
Links: Stuff
‘It’s Raining Men’ (in Wigs and Heels!)
Links: Express
A Colourful Crazy Ride: Jesse Wikiriwhi Discusses NZ Opera’s The Barber...
Links: Express
Australian Labor Party Use Grindr Ads in Fight Against Homophobic Opponent
Links: Express
Canada Reduces Blood Donation Ban For Gay and Bi Men To...
Links: Express

Thu 10 May 2018

Israel Folau embarrassing the game - it's almost time he moved on: Peter FitzSimons
OPINION: Israel Folau...
Links: Stuff
Statue Man's dark past: Christchurch street performer previously convicted of HIV-related offences
A former male prostitute who was once deemed a public health risk and put into isolation for knowingly spreading HIV to other men is back on Christchurch streets busking...
Links: NZ Herald

Wed 10 May 2017

NZ International Comedy Festival: A Week In Review
Links: Express
Sexuality and gender div. resource translated into NZSL
RainbowYOUTH have released a new version of the Gender and Sexuality 101 resource just in time for New Zealand Sign Language week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans behind bars: Tama's story
This is part one Tama's story...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 May 2016

OuterSpaces information evening (Evolve Wellington Youth Service)
OuterSpaces is a collaborative initiative between Wellington
Features: Jac Lynch, Jevon Wright, Kassie Hartendorp
Links: PrideNZ.com
Auckland University Panel to Query Equal Justice in NZ Prisons
Links: Express
Eurovision: The Case Study of Successful Gay Lobbying
Links: Express
Read: U.S. Attorney General Condemns North Carolina Bathroom Bill
Links: Express
Smouldering Saturday at Family
Links: Express
Governor of North Carolina suing US Government
The Governor of North Carolina is suing the US Federal Government as he believes the Obama administration is bypassing Congress and attempting to rewrite the states anti-LGBTI bathroom law...
Links: GayNZ.com
Just A Puppet On A String
Predictably, Family First is once again regurgitating propaganda and mendacities from its fellow Christian Right organisations overseas, although to be fair, they aren't the only ones doing it...
Links: GayNZ.com
LGBTI rights advocate accepted into UN programme
Former Education Director of Rainbow Youth, Aych McArdle has been accepted into the 2016 ISHR Human Rights Defenders Advocacy Programme in Geneva...
Links: GayNZ.com
Students create bathroom app for LGBTI community
Three young students have developed an app that will allow people to find a gender neutral public toilet close by...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans prisoner rights to be highlighed at AKL Uni
A panel discussion on the needs and rights of transgender people in New Zealand prisons will take place tomorrow at the University of Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 10 May 2015

Composer Jack Body dies (Wellington, New Zealand)
Links: Wikipedia
Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP459487.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
One Charming Prince, Three Maid’s in Drag – a Classic Fairytale...
Links: Express
UK Now Has Highest Number of Gay and Lesbian MPs in...
Links: Express
Rugby needs to lead the way, Wall says
Louisa Wall The gauntlet is being thrown down to the administrators of New Zealand rugby to lead the way on combating homophobia in sport...
Links: GayNZ.com
Study: NZ athletes most likely to hide sexuality
A study into homophobia in sport has found gay and bi New Zealand athletes are more likely to hide their sexuality than those from five other major English speaking nations...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 10 May 2014

Confessions From The Dance Floor– Family
Links: Express
Digging Deep – Urge Bar
Links: Express
Gay Ways to Avoid Eurovision
Links: Express
Glitterbox: Emergency Services – Toast Bar Downstairs
Links: Express
Laughing With Drag Queens – Legend Bar and Night Club
Links: Express
MTV VJ Announcement party – Fort Street
Links: Express
Win a Trip to Hawaii Draw Three – POP on Ponsonby
Links: Express
Abuse of Trust Pt 3: Victims ignored
Abuse of trust: Pt 1 - The trap Abuse of trust: Pt 2 - The assaults Silipa Take At the time of the first formalised accusation of sexual assault by counsellor Silipa Take in 2009, the NZAF's Wellington Awhina Centre was operating without a full-time manager...
Links: GayNZ.com
Baptists to consider gay marriage stance
File Photo New Zealand's Baptist Churches have set up a working party to look at their stance on same-sex marriages...
Links: GayNZ.com
Beijing police detain nine gay activists
Beijing police have detained as many as nine civil society activists meeting for a seminar to discuss obstacles facing gay groups wishing to register as non-governmental organisations in China...
Links: GayNZ.com
Darwin's AsiaPacific Outgames ready to roll
The Darwin AsiaPacific Outgames will burst into life with an opening ceremony tonight...
Links: GayNZ.com
EEO's Diversity Awards open for entries
Overwatch was the big winner in 2013 The Equal Employment Opportunity Trust is calling for entries for its annual Diversity Awards...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 10 May 2013

"Discrimination has to stop," McD's protest hears
Sean Bailey at tonight's protest Small, vocal protests have been held in Auckland and Wellington to support McDonald's worker Sean Bailey who was told by a manager he'd be disciplined if he 'acted gay'...
Links: GayNZ.com
HRC investigating lesbian couple's lodge complaint
The Pilgrim Planet Lodge The Human Rights Commission is looking into the case of a lesbian couple who were turned away from a Whangarei lodge by its owner, who told them a gay couple sharing a bed offended her religious beliefs...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lesbian couple denied shared bed at lodge
The Pilgram Planet Lodge in Whangarei An engaged lesbian couple say they are shocked and humiliated after being denied a pre-booked room at a Whangarei lodge, where one of the owners said allowing them to share a bed would offend her religious beliefs...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lodge owner: "we don't make provision for sodomy"
Pilgrim Planet Lodge The owners of a Whangarei lodge claim they have a right to discriminate on the basis of sexuality, because the lodge is also their home...
Links: GayNZ.com
Man with NZ links arrested over UK killing
Ricardo Pisano A man who escaped from a New Zealand prison more than a decade ago has been arrested in Britain over the murder of a man he was seeing...
Links: GayNZ.com
MP wants to "sell New Zealand to homosexuals"
Maurice Williamson MP Government MP Maurice Williamson says he will only appear on the internationally screened Ellen TV chat show if the subject of the interview is New Zealand as a gay-friendly country...
Links: GayNZ.com
Pair of queer protests ordered at McDonald's
The Queer Avengers' protest graphic Protests will be held in Auckland and Wellington today in response to a McDonald’s manager telling a staff member to ‘act’ less gay...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rankin made CEO of anti-gay Conservatives
Former Work and Income New Zealand CEO and Dancing With The Stars contestant Christine Rankin has been announced as the new CEO of the Conservative Party...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 10 May 2012

Ray - HIV support in Christchurch (Christchurch)
Ray talks about the history of HIV+ support groups in Canterbury
Links: PrideNZ.com
Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP412910.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Gay HIV+ group 'sad and angry' at child's treatment
Bruce Kilmister says the case makes him sad and angry The head of an organisation which supports HIV+ gay men says the response to a HIV+ child at a Whangarei daycare is not uncommon, and shows while science and medication have revolutionised the treatment and care of people living with HIV, unfortunately social stigma and discrimination have remained much as where they were 20 years ago...
Links: GayNZ.com
Metro Fires ad: complaints extingushed
Complaints that a Metro Fires ad featuring “two women wearing skimpy nighties and touching each other on a couch,” was “a bit raunchy” to be shown during in the news hour has been dismissed...
Links: GayNZ.com
No "clamour" for gay marriage, Key claims
John Key at the Big Gay Out Prime Minister John Key has told media he believes there is no demand for marriage equality in New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com
Obama supports marriage equality
US President Barack Obama has come out in support of gay marriage in a TV interview...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Against Me! singer comes out as trans
Singer from American punk rock band Against Me! Tom Gabel has revealed plans to begin living as a woman, after dealing privately with gender dysphoria for years...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Obama backs marriage equality
US President Barack Obama has declared his support for marriage equality, potentially making the issue a key battleground at the upcoming election...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 May 2011

8 Simple Reasons To See Jeffrey
Next week, Number 8 Films is hosting a revival screening of the classic 90s gay comedy JEFFREY at Galatos on Thursday May 19, 7pm...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hearings underway on “kill the gays” bill
A Ugandan Parliament committee has held a second day of hearings on a globally-condemned anti-gay bill and it could be voted on this week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Urge warming up for winter with brain workout
Calling all intellectual bears ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 10 May 2010

Feminist Queer Book Group (Wellington)
George Mapplebeck talks about the Feminist Queer Book Group in Wellington.
Features: George Mapplebeck
Links: PrideNZ.com
Carmen to judge the seventh QWU pageant
Carmen Rupe The seventh Queen of the Whole Universe pageant will feature Carmen as a guest judge...
Links: GayNZ.com
QWU's crowning glory
Jonathan Smith has raised $145,000 for HIV/AIDS charities and set a Guinness World record with his madcap beauty pageant Queen of the Whole Universe...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Tasman Gulf?
Australia is currently the only advanced western society to have legislative prohibitions in place against same-sex marriage proper...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 10 May 2009

Drag queen website "a danger to kids"
A new website aimed at drag queens and their fans has come under fire from a family group who are worried that the site normalises gay sex and dressing in drag...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gok Wan to visit NZ for a Kiwi fashion fix
Gay UK television fashionista Gok Wan will visit New Zealand for a party this month, reports the Herald on Sunday...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 10 May 2008

The documentary Through Rainbow Coloured Glasses premieres (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Links: Production website
ACT passes scaled-down Civil Unions Bill
The Australian Capital Territory has passed a water-down version of a bill which creates civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, but without a provision that would allow for couples to have ceremonies after the federal government it would veto the bill if the section remained in the legislation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Candlelight: "Never Give Up, Never Forget"
Candlelight Memorials in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill will bring together communities hardest hit by HIV and AIDS for the 25th Anniversary of the Candlelight Memorial on Sunday 18 May...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Glamazons' new video footage stolen
Wellington's drag troupe The Glamazons are "in major panic mode" after footage from their new video - which they say is their most ambitious yet - has been stolen...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 10 May 2007

(Safe) Sex and the City: Helping stop HIV in Wellington
Chris Sibley has been doing health promotion among men who have sex with men for almost three years...
Links: GayNZ.com
AUS: Asylum seeker
A Pakistani man seeking asylum in Australia has been denied refugee status...
Links: GayNZ.com
Christian Heritage? I Thought It Was Dead!
Bishop of Bling Brian Tamaki and his Destiny Church minions are planning yet another march, this time to protest the government's praiseworthy statement of religious freedom and pluralism, the Draft Statement on Religious Diversity...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay Melburnian enters Big Brother house
A Melbourne gay man who won a competition to be an Australian ‘Big Brother' housemate entered the house last night and instantly revealed his sexual orientation to the housemates and TV audience...
Links: GayNZ.com
Urge boys raise cash for men
The boys from New Zealand's only all-male gay bar give money away today for safe sex awareness campaigns, and say they now plan to raise more cash – this time for prostate cancer...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 10 May 2006

"R18" setback for Jack mag
A decision by Whitcoulls to require R18 stickers on the first issue of Jack magazine to be sold over the counter has delayed distribution of the publication's first charged-for issue in the nationwide chain by at least two weeks...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ Anglicans split on gay issues
Maori and Pacific Island Anglicans are refusing to openly discuss the ordination of gays and lesbians, at the Anglican General Synod, which began in Christchurch yesterday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Urge hosts 1st Bear competition
The first ever Mr Urge Bear contest was held at Urge Bar in Auckland on Saturday night, with contestants collecting $800 in just 40 minutes for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Body Positive...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 May 2005

Bias accusations in Fiji sex case
There are calls for Fiji's chief prosecutor to step down from the appeal of an Australian tourist and a local man jailed on gay sex charges, after an email in which he condemned homosexuality was made public...
Links: GayNZ.com
Calls for Peron "marching orders"
Calls for gay Auckland bookstore owner and immigrant Jim Peron to be tossed out of the country have been renewed today by NZ First leader Winston Peters...
Links: GayNZ.com
Parents shut out in civil unions
There's not much in the Civil Union Act for parents, says lesbian mum Susan Iverson...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 10 May 2004

Destiny weighs in on civil unions
Destiny NZ, the political arm of the evangelical Destiny Church, has lent its voice to the civil union-bashing brigade when it unveiled key policies at a public meeting in Nelson this weekend...
Links: GayNZ.com
Maxim v the Christian Right Old Guard?
One can now witness a schism between the Maxim Institute's use of conservative Catholic "natural law" and rank and vile "old guard" fundamentalist ravings about the Civil Union Bill and same-sex parenting...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mike Hosking quashes gay rumours
Former TV host Mike Hosking has quashed rumours that he had an affair with real estate agent Michael Boulgaris this week, saying he has never met the man...
Links: GayNZ.com
Outspoken: Facing the facts of HIV III
The rate of HIV infections in New Zealand increased dramatically last year with a total of 188 people in New Zealand diagnosed with HIV last year, the highest number of new cases in any year since 1985...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 10 May 1995

Television item (New Zealand)
Newsnight, ref: TZP156805.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 10 May 1991

Television news report: a Christchurch philanthropist offers refunds on empty packets of condoms (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Michael Sherry wants to promote safe sex by offering refunds on empty packets of condoms. Nightline, ref F104366.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Fri 10 May 1985

Mr Mclay Upsets 'gay’ Unionists (Press, 10 May 1985)
On 10 May 1985, homosexual workers in Auckland expressed their concerns to at least one union about comments made by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr McLay. He made statements suggesting that landlords should have the authority to evict homosexuals and that employers should have the freedom to deny jobs...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television news report: everyone in Queensland that has received a blood transfusion in the last two years will be screened for AIDS (New Zealand)
6.30 news Top Half, ref F81430.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
Television: anti-homosexual law reform petition gains half a million signatures (New Zealand)
ref: TZP135187.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 10 May 1983

Television news report: AIDS has reached Australia, and could arrive in New Zealand (New Zealand)
ref: TZP19266.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television news report: urgent measures are being taken to keep AIDS out of New Zealand (New Zealand)
ref: TZP15983.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 10 May 1975

How Private Is A Member? (Press, 10 May 1975)
The opinion piece, published on 10 May 1975, presents a satirical overview of the political climate in Wellington as New Zealand approaches an election year. The author, using a whimsical tone, likens the uncertain political conditions to changing weather patterns, describing the atmosphere as foggy with hints of stormy weather...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 10 May 1933

Mobs of Nazi supporters burn books, including those taken from the Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) (Germany)
The burning of books happens throughout Germany. Most notable is the book burning by students in Berlin's Opernplatz of over 25,000 volumes.
Links: Papers Past, Wikipedia

Tue 10 May 1910

Composer Tuini Moetu Haangu Ngawai is born (Gisborne region, New Zealand)
Links: Te Ara

Mon 10 May 1909

Amy Bock. (Press, 10 May 1909)
Amy Bock was born in Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, 49 years prior to May 1909. A schoolmate of hers, J.C. Bryant, noted that she was both clever and popular during her school years, attending a local State school where Bryant's father was the headmaster. Although she had a somewhat reserved attitude,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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