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Thu 25 May 2023

  • From Sex Education to Big Swiss: Why sex therapists are 2023’s must-have
    Times: Do they actually reveal the secrets of sexuality or just give us a cheap thrill?...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • What makes a word? Queer art exhibition to be held in Whanganui
    The exhibition was inspired by talks on what it means for art and people to be queer...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • The Chicks Announce Highly Anticipated Return to Aotearoa This October!
    Links: Express
  • The Most Naked: A Deep Dive into Hannah Tasker-Poland’s Exploration of...
    Links: Express

Wed 25 May 2022

  • Schoolchildren banned from using bathrooms of opposite gender under new Oklahoma law
    Schools that allow children to use the bathroom of their opposite sex will lose some state funding, under Oklahoma's third bill directed at transgender people this year...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • APO CELEBRATES MATARIKI WITH MUSIC STAR ROB RUHA, KAHAO , AND...
    Links: Express
  • Intersex Aotearoa’s Tu Chapman: “I have never met any other Māori...
    Links: Express
  • STORYTELLING THAT DEFIES THE NORMS
    Links: Express
  • TWO GUYS, ONE ARTIST – Samantha McKegg Anticipates The Arrival of...
    Links: Express

Tue 25 May 2021

  • Fighting Discrimination With Perspiration: Fcb And The New Zealand Aids Foundation Team Up For Sweat With Pride
    Carmen Collected, Tilda Sweatpours or Jim Locker? You decide...
    Links: Scoop
  • International AIDS Society Announces Montreal As Host City For AIDS 2022
    IAS – the International AIDS Society – announced today that AIDS 2022 – the 24th International AIDS Conference – will take place in Montreal, Canada, and virtually from 29 July to 2 August 2022 with pre-conference meetings set to begin on 27 July ...
    Links: Scoop
  • Kevin Spacey to Star in New Paedophilia Drama
    Links: Express
  • Out and About: Urge Wellington – Back in Black
    Links: Express

Mon 25 May 2020

  • Anti-LGBT+ Judge Gets Closer To Supreme Court Position
    Links: Express
  • New Bi-Monthly Drug Could Be More Effective Than PrEP
    Links: Express
  • South African Government Criticised For Excluding LGBT+ Refugees From COVID-19 Relief
    Links: Express

Fri 25 May 2018

  • Series of LGBTI-Friendly Children’s Books to be Released with the Help...
    Links: Express
  • Vatican Cardinal Says Homophobia is an Invention and Doesn’t Exist
    Links: Express

Thu 25 May 2017

  • Auckland Pride Board Retirement and Renewal
    Links: Express
  • Ben and Jerry’s Ban Same-Flavour Scoops Until Australia Achieves Marriage Equality
    Links: Express
  • Three By Ekman Wows Audience
    Links: Express
  • Under the Spotlight: The Covert Practice of ‘Stealthing’
    Links: Express

Wed 25 May 2016

  • Spike in Youth Coming Out Since Irish Referendum
    Links: Express
  • "Thank you Shaun"
    David Friar, Chair of the NZ AIDS Foundation, publicly thanks the organisation's just-departed Executive Director Shaun Robertson for his contribution to the fight against the HIV epidemic...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • "Thank you Shaun"
    David Friar, Chair of the NZ AIDS Foundation, publicly thanks the organisation's just-departed Executive Director Shaun Robertson for his contribution to the fight against the HIV epidemic...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • HIV surge: "More than condoms needed" - expert
    Dr Peter Saxton One of the country's most respected HIV and gay men's health researchers has added his voice to the chorus of experts calling for two basic HIV prevention measures to be made available in New Zealand...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mother lashes out at "rotten, ugly" murder victim
    Beauen Wallace-Loretz In an expletive-laden Facebook conversation the mother of Beauen Wallace-Loretz has lashed out at the gay man her son was found guilty of murdering, calling him a "rotten, ugly" man who "did this to you...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • VIC Premier delivers powerful apology to gay men
    Victoria’s Premier has apologised for the ‘abominable’ laws that criminalised homosexuality in Australia...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 May 2015

  • Eurovision Winner Mans Zelmerlöw Called Homosexuality “Abnormal”
    Links: Express
  • Doco Fest preview: Te Manu Ahi
    A short film by talented Auckland couple Andy Jalfon and Skot Barnett is showing at the Documentary Edge Festival...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 May 2014

  • FOODIE BITES: Worth Waking Up too!
    Links: Express
  • New Zealand and Art The Unexpected
    Links: Express
  • Tom Sainsbury
    Links: Express
  • Claim Fred Phelps overcame gay hatred
    Fred Phelps There is a claim the man who led the ‘God Hates Fags’ Westboro Baptist Church had a change of heart about gay rights before he died, and that’s why he was thrown out of the church...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay Propaganda Wars
    'GAY PROPAGANDA' WARS Part1...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hague and Logie both in Greens' top ten
    Jan Logie and Kevin Hague Rainbow spokespeople Kevin Hague and Jan Logie maintain strong places on the Green Party list...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Network responds to RuPaul's 'tranny' spiel
    RuPaul Charles The network which airs RuPaul’s Drag Race in the US has distanced itself from its host’s defence of the use of words like ‘tranny’ and ‘she-male’...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out Takes Review: The Rugby Player
    The Rugby Player tells the incredible and devastating story of Mark Bingham, a gay rugby player who is believed to have been one of the passengers who bravely stormed the cockpit of United Flight 93 during the 9/11 terrorist attacks...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out Takes spotlight: The Rugby Player
    The powerful story of gay rugby player and likely hero Mark Bingham opens at the Out Takes Film Festival in Auckland today...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sam Smith's Leave Your Lover
    Sam Smith is the other man in the video for his new song Leave Your Lover...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vietnam: social stigma increases HIV risk
    Vietnam: Despite the government’s pro-gay stance, society’s marginalizing and prejudice against men who have sex with men put them at a greater risk of contracting HIV, says UNAIDS...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 May 2013

  • Michal Boyd - Aged Care Research (Auckland)
    Michal Boyd talks about research into the care of Rainbow people in aged residential care in New Zealand
    Features: Michal Boyd
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Auckland's Wingate Club damaged in fire
    Updated 8PM: An Auckland suburban gay sauna isdark tonight after suffering damage in what it terms "a major fire...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • House where Miles was killed to be demolished
    Hayden Miles The Christchurch flat where gay teenager Hayden Miles was beaten to death has been marked for demolition...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 May 2012

  • GALS to celebrate community in next concert
    Auckland's Gay and Lesbian Singers (GALS) are warming up to celebrate their community in their next concert Out in the City: Songs for Queer Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay and bi men with HIV doubles over a decade
    The number of gay and bisexual men living with diagnosed HIV in New Zealand more than doubled between 1999 and 2009, according to a paper published this week in the International Journal of STD   ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Homosexuality "doesn't belong in Zimbabwe"
    Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has told a conference homosexuality doesn't belong in Zimbabwe, and violates women's rights by denying the union of men and women needed to bear children...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out Takes review: Let My People Go!
    Dir: Mikael Buch, France, 2011, 35mm, 88 mins, French and Finnish with English subtitles Censor's rating: M - Contains violence, offensive language and sex scenes Still to screen: 'Wellington Opening Night' 31 May 7:00pm at Paramount Theatre The Out Takes Film Festival got off to a light comedic start with the screening of the French movie Let My People Go! at the Rialto on Thursday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Signing sets HIV organisations on collaborative path
    Shaun Robinson (NZAF), Bruce Kilmister (Body Positive) and Scott Johnston (Body Positive chair) at the signing...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 May 2011

  • Donor battles to keep name on birth cert
    A New South Wales sperm donor has become embattled in a legal dispute with the former lesbian partner of the woman who bore his child...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Happy helpers sought to pack condoms
    The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is looking for Auckland volunteers to help pack enough condoms for what is set to be a busy Queen's Birthday Weekend...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mr Gay Wellington dumps Goulter as judge
    Jevan Goulter Mr Gay Wellington has dropped Jevan Goulter as a judge after Steven Gray announced he would not MC the show if Goulter was involved...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Reflections of the Past
    The Parker-Hulme Murder is a case all New Zealanders are aware of, something which left the nation shocked when two teenage girls bludgeoned to death one of their mothers with a brick in a stocking in Christchurch's Victoria Park in 1954...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The American Question
    In 2012, the United States goes to the polls for its next presidential and Congressional elections...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The American Question
    In 2012, the United States goes to the polls for its next presidential and Congressional elections...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 May 2010

  • "Stay in the closet" footballer's home egged
    Jason Akermanis Just days after he controversially told gay footballers to stay in the closet, Melbourne AFL star Jason Akermanis has had both his home and car pelted with eggs...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cheeky exposure for Gay Ski Week
    A Wanaka ski resort manager has stripped down to the bare essentials in a campaign supporting Gay Ski Week...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Communication: it's never easy
    Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell as Jacob and Andrew The New Zealand production company behind the gay short film Communication has the name Number 8 Films...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal deal advances
    There are reports emerging from Washington of significant movement on the repeal of the US military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Footballer "slaughtered hopes of gay athletes"
    Gay New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup has hit out at Aussie footballer Jason Akermanis, who encouraged AFL players to stay in the closet...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New GenderBridge Coordinator appointed
    Cam Michael Cam Michael has been appointed to the role of Coordinator with GenderBridge...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 May 2009

  • Kiwi spotted at Canadian Gay Film Festival
    Softies: A scene from 'Teddy' New Kiwi gay short film Teddy will be first shown in NZ this weekend, but its director has been showing it off internationally...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Kiwi videos needed for anti-hate project
    Anti-homophobia videos set to Lily Allen's new song 'Fuck You' are popular on the net this month, and now New Zealand's Triangle/Stratos TV crew wants you to make a local version...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 May 2008

  • Gambia's president declares war on gays
    Gay men and lesbians must leave Gambia within 24 hours or face "serious consequences," the country's President President Yahya Jammeh says...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Judge urges Aus. to beef up gay reforms
    One of Australia's most senior former judges has urged the Rudd Federal Government to allow same-sex couples access to the federal Family Court, and to recognise state civil union registries in federal law...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Poster Boy enters Aussie bear pageant
    He's convinced New Zealand that he's hot stuff, but has Roger Moore got what it takes to win a big bear contest across the Tasman? Trans-Tasman hottie?: Roger Moore The Safe Sex Poster Boy bear has entered Southern HiBearnation 2008, happening in Melbourne next month...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tommy Hamilton - Chch's Teen Queen 2008
    Tommy Hamilton and his mate Biff Nominations were taken on Christchurch's Cruz nightclub's website, and at the bar...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA:McCain's gay marriage clash with Ellen
    US Presidential hopeful John McCain has taken issue with Ellen DeGeneres' planned wedding to Australian actress Portia De Rossi during a live TV discussion...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 May 2007


  • The NZ Council of Trade Unions in Canterbury is having a meeting next week to gauge interest for setting up an active branch for ‘Out @ Work' in the region...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZAF ponders future kaumatua
    NZ AIDS Foundation chairperson Jeremy Lambert says it's possible there could be a range of people taking the place of Henare Te Ua, the organisation's kaumatua who passed away earlier this month...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • UK: Anger at gay hook-up database plan
    A UK National Health Service database holding intimate information about the sexual behaviour of thousands of gay men is being planned by health trusts as part of a drive to encourage safer sex, a charity told the Guardian newspaper...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA retains ban on gay blood donations
    The American government has said there will be no change to the policy that bans anyone who ever had sex with another man from giving blood for life...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA: Having gay friends spurs tolerance
    People with gay friends or family members are far more likely to accept their sexual orientation than those who don't, according to a US survey released by the Pew Research Centre in Dallas, Texas...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 May 2006

  • Choosing the films we want to see
    As a packed house of invited guests and paying punters settled in for last night's Auckland grand opening ot the OutTakes Film Festival it's a safe bet that no one was giving any consideration to how the opening night movie and the 70 others that make up the festival were chosen...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Material sought for Auckland HLR exhibition
    Pictures, tapes and clippings of the Auckland-based campaign for homosexual law reform in the mid-80s are urgently sought for an exhibition planned to coincide with the 20th anniversary of law reform this July...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Reel Queer characters open Out Takes 2006
    Popular queer duo, The Cottage, and Auckland drag queen supremo Miss Ribena perform at the opening night extravaganza of Out Takes 2006: A Reel Queer Film Festival, tonight, 9:00pm, G...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wanted: The heroes and heroines of law reform
    Wellington's Rainbow Labour and GAP are seeking nominations of people to be honoured as the “sung and unsung heroes and heroines” of the homosexual law reform campaign...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 May 2005

  • "Death threats preceded Janis's murder"
    A woman has testified in court that she heard several threats to "waste" gay man James 'Janis' Bamborough at a party in Westport in 1999 and feared she would be next...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Augusten Burroughs: an engaging extremist
    At the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Claire Gummer talks skid marks and cruel streaks with a New York Times best-selling author whose real life seems stranger than fiction...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 May 2004

  • Dunne equates gay marriage with child sex
    United Future leader Peter Dunne has equated gay marriage with child sex in his latest attack on the government...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 May 2001

  • The seventh annual Out Takes Gay and Lesbian Film Festival takes place (New Zealand)
    The festival runs in multiple centres: Auckland 25 May - 5 June (Village on Queen Street and Sky City Theatre), Wellington 31 May - 10 June (Paramount Theatre and City Cinema), Dunedin 16 - 17 June, Christchurch 22 - 24 June.
    Links: Out Takes

Tue 25 May 1999

Sat 25 May 1996

Sat 25 May 1991

  • Television item (Otago region, New Zealand)
    Network News, ref: TZP67889.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news report: unexpected consequences after actor plays the part of a man with AIDS (New Zealand)
    Actor Patrick Davies' friends and family thought he had AIDS after media reports about the theatre production. One Network News, ref F104476.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 25 May 1988

  • Not The 9 O’clock News (Press, 25 May 1988)
    On 25 May 1988, a group of four lesbians staged a high-profile protest during the BBC's main evening news programme, bringing attention to homosexual rights in front of millions of viewers. The incident unfolded when they interrupted the broadcast, causing chaos as newscaster Sue Lawley tried to maintain composure while...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 25 May 1985

  • Support For ‘gay’ Bill Welcomed (Press, 25 May 1985)
    The Human Rights Commission's endorsement of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill has received positive feedback from MP Fran Wilde, who is promoting the legislation for Wellington Central. Wilde praised the commission's report as a clear and balanced overview of the proposed law. She highlighted that the commission's differing views on...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Television news report: anti-homosexual law reform campaigners claim harassment (New Zealand)
    6.30 news, ref F81840.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
  • Television news report: compost dumped on the drive of opponent to homosexual law reform (New Zealand)
    ref: TZP137345.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 25 May 1984

  • Television: various community members discussing who should teach sex education to children (New Zealand)
    ref: TZP87560.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 25 May 1971

  • Television news report: a bust of Frank Sargeson is unveiled in Takapuna (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Ref TZP144400.
    Links: TVNZ
  • The Labour Party annual conference votes favour of homosexual law reform (New Zealand)
    The conference voted in favour of homosexual acts between consenting males in private be legalised. The vote was so close that a count had to be taken.

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