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Sun 13 Aug 2023

  • Clearlight Saunas: Retreat Into Warmth This Winter
    Links: Express
  • Human Rights Act Amendment Bill: It’s About Time!
    Links: Express

Fri 13 Aug 2021

  • Chris Brickell: underscoring gay literary pioneer James Courage
    James Courage is a major mid-century New Zealand literary figure but he has been largely overlooked compared to contemporaries such as Frank Sargeson and Charles Brasch...
    Links: RNZ
  • Gay Dating: Sending Nude Selfies
    Links: Express
  • Kennedy Anderson: Master of The Apprentice
    Links: Express
  • Little Miss Cinnamon: My Journey With te reo Māori
    Links: Express
  • Opinion: Michael Stevens “Activism Without Allies Is Ineffective”
    Links: Express

Thu 13 Aug 2020

  • Gay man reveals why he loves being married to a woman
    A Mormon couple in the United States have opened up about their "mixed orientation" marriage in which gay man Skyler Sorensen is happily married to his wife Amanda...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • BBC Under Fire For Unbalanced Report Described As Pro-Conversion Therapy
    Links: Express

Tue 13 Aug 2019

  • Emily Ratajkowski shows off armpit hair as she opens up about sexuality
    The 28-year-old model and actress penned a candid essay for Harper's Bazaar's September 2019 issue...
    Links: Stuff
  • Transgender designer expands her underwear range to trans children
    The world's first underwear range designed specifically for transgender children is being launched by a UK designer...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • ‘These Streets Will Make You Feel Brand New, Big Lights Will...
    Links: Express
  • The Best of Queer New York
    Links: Express

Mon 13 Aug 2018

  • Declining HIV numbers bolstered by new prevention drug but more data needed
    Changes to HIV medications are on the horizon just a few months after New Zealand became one of the first countries to publicly fund a "revolutionary" prevention  drug...
    Links: Stuff
  • Ruby Rose deletes Twitter following 'gay Batwoman' backlash
    Aussie actress Ruby Rose has deleted her Twitter following backlash over her casting as DC's lesbian Batwoman...
    Links: Stuff
  • The Panel with Selwyn Manning and Dellwyn Stuart (Part 1)
    Kiwi dialysis patients are having their treatments rationed because of immigrants needing emergency care...
    Links: RNZ
  • Marriage Equality Ruled A Constitutional Right in Costa Rica
    Links: Express
  • Shortland Street Intersex Storyline Praised
    Links: Express
  • The Diva Delights
    Links: Express

Sun 13 Aug 2017

  • Diversity celebrated at Fashion Week model casting
    Diversity was celebrated at this year's model casting for New Zealand Fashion Week...
    Links: NZ Herald

Sat 13 Aug 2016

  • Brazil's epidemic of anti-gay violence
    Often considered a society which is tolerant of diversity, and which hosts in Sao Paulo the world's largest gay pride parade, Brazil has has a strong undercurrent of violent homophobia...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Untold stories of war, pt1
    The latest project, Sparrow, from filmmaker Welby Ings, is based on the true story of a gay soldier in the Second World War who was shot for desertion and locked up in a psychiatric institution for the remainder of his life...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 13 Aug 2015

  • Make a Positive Change to Your Life
    Links: Express
  • Tony Abbott Facing Backbench Revolt on Marriage Equality
    Links: Express
  • Board to wind up Ak Outgames Inc.
    The Board of the Auckland Outgames 2016, which resigned en masse a month ago, is requiring that the organisation be formally wound up and says its resignation was a result of the event's international organisation refusing to delay the Games...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Board to wind up Ak Outgames Inc.
    The Board of the Auckland Outgames 2016, which resigned en masse a month ago, is requiring that the organisation be formally wound up and says its resignation was a result of the event's international organisation refusing to delay the Games...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Court rules against homophobic US Clerk
    Kim Davis refusing a gay couple a marriage licence A US judge has ruled a County Clerk's religious beliefs don't mean she can refuse to issue same-sex couples with marriage licences...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cupcakes to the rescue for Alphabet Soup
    A cupcake decorating competition will be held at Otago University next week as part of a fundraising campaign to help keep Dunedin's lgbt youth group afloat...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Health: HIV and trans women
    The World Health Organisation has released a report offering guidance on HIV and other health issues for trans women, treating them as a separate group than ‘men who have sex with men’ for the first time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Liberal backbenchers vow to cross floor
    Australia: Three Liberal MPs and a Senator have stated they will cross the floor and vote in favour of legislation supporting same-sex marriage...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 13 Aug 2014

  • 4th Asia Pacific Outgames 2016 Coming To Auckland
    Links: Express
  • Meet our GLBT Parliamentary Candidates: Louisa Wall
    Links: Express
  • Meet our GLBT parliamentary candidates: Tony Milne
    Links: Express
  • Action taken over Russian hate crimes
    A St...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Dunedin Pride 2014 preparations begin
    Planning is underway for Dunedin Pride 2014...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Lesbian election forum to be a left affair
    Labour's Louisa Wall, the Greens' Julie Anne Genter and Miriam Pierard from Internet Mana The Auckland Lesbian Business Association will hold a pre-election get-together tonight, which will feature representatives from Labour, the Green Party and Internet Mana...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: One Of Those
    One Of Those Written and performed by David Charteris Directed by Bruce Brown At The Vault, Q Theatre, Auckland 12-16 August 2014 David Charteris It's 1960 and Walter D'Arcy Cresswell has died...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Skjellerup wins cycling gold at Gay Games
    Picture / Twitter New Zealand athlete Blake Skjellerup has won gold in the men’s 18-34 age group road cycling race at the Gay Games in Cleveland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • South Auckland advisory panel sought
    RainbowYOUTH is looking for people who can offer feedback about its education workshops, and help make them more accessible for South Auckland students...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Straight mates wedding comp sparks anger
    A radio station’s competition for two straight male friends to win a trip to the Rugby World Cup by marrying each other is being described as “disrespectful”, “homophobic” and “making a mockery of marriage”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Study sheds light on gay/bi STI rates
    One in 12 gay or bisexual men who participated in key health surveys in 2011 reported having an STI in the previous year, with Chlamydia and gonorrhea the most common...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Study sheds light on gay/bi STI rates
    One in 12 gay or bisexual men who participated in key health surveys in 2011 reported having an STI in the previous year, with Chlamydia and gonorrhea the most common...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 13 Aug 2013

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP435289.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Athletes "must not be put at risk" - Mallard
    Trevor Mallard Labour is calling for contingency plans to be put in place for members of the New Zealand Olympic team and their supporters who may be caught up in the enforcement of Russia’s new anti-gay visibility laws...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Bullying a "national problem" study shows
    File Photo In a New Zealand first study, 94 per cent of staff surveyed by a Victoria University researcher report they have seen bullying in their school...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Lady Penelope to be farewelled on Thurs
    Lady Penelope (left) The funeral for Auckland identity Penelope Blomfield will be held at St-Matthew-in-the-City on Thursday afternoon...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New Lady Gaga: Applause
    Lady Gaga has released Applause, her highly anticipated new single, following a series of leaked snippets over the weekend...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ 'disagrees' with Russian laws - Key
    John Key The Prime Minister has broken his silence on Russia’s anti-gay laws...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Realistically? This many transgender youth in NZ?
    File Photo Recent results from the Auckland University student survey Youth 2012 state that transgender students appear in the results at one per cent of those included in the study of 8,500 students...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Russia updates: Law will be enforced
    In the latest news from Russia, there’s an assertion its anti-gay law will be enforced at the Sochi Winter Olympics, prompting a stern warning from the IOC...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Russia: How can we help?
    The Russian LGBT Network is getting floods of letters from people asking how they can help...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vibrant Hamilton Pride line-up revealed
    From a gay choir workshop, to a rainbow dog walk, Hamilton Pride will once again provide a range of events as diverse at the people attending...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 13 Aug 2012

  • MP dismisses Right to Life 'muzzle' claims
    Charles Chauvel Labour MP Charles Chauvel says there is “nothing shady” about his request for Right to Life to send him its rules, so he can see whether it actually has a mandate to comment on the issue of marriage equality...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Men Like Us
    Filmmaker Christopher Banks holds a mirror up to gay New Zealand, allowing us to see all its beauty and all its blemishes, in his documentary Men Like Us which premieres in Auckland on Wednesday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Snow and volunteers all set for Gay Ski Week
    The steamer Earnslaw heads out with the Remarkables behind cloaked in snow clouds Regular light snowfalls are leading to optimism that the Remarkables and Coronet Peak skifields will be in good shape for Gay Ski Week which begins in just under two weeks' time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • US Army's first gay General appointed
    Tammy Smith, right, with her wife Tracey Hepner, left (Stars and Stripes) The US Army has appointed its first-ever openly-gay General...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 13 Aug 2011

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP401882.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Student seeks to capture Wellington pride
    A Massey University student is seeking out and proud Wellingtonians to be models for a photography exhibition...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 13 Aug 2010

  • Cruz named NZ's Next Top Cat Model
    Ben and Andrew with Cruz 7...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay marriages to resume in California
    Californian gay couples can resume getting married next week, pending the appeal of the decision to overturn Proposition 8...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pink Flight 2011 tickets on sale
    Tickets are on sale for Air New Zealand's March 4 Pink Flight to Sydney Mardis Gras...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 13 Aug 2009

  • Intolerance: The Wanganui Incident
    It is New Zealand’s most tragic gay scandal...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • No evidence sexuality change works - APA
    Glbt people should be supported into accepting their real sexual orientation and avoid futile programmes designed to make them heterosexual, according to the authoritative American Psychological Association...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Truth: Carter a moaner, Labour sycophantic
    Gay MP Chris Carter is an extravagant moaner, pink is the new brown PC-wise and Labour's gay-friendly stance is a "sycophantic culture" according to a front page editorial in today's issue of Truth newspaper...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 13 Aug 2008

  • Fitness for Frequent Flyers
    Flying fit: Pink Flight hostess Venus Mantrap Got the kind of job where you're up in the air a lot? Our personal trainer Julz Darroch has some quick fitness tips for jetsetters...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fitness for Frequent Flyers
    Flying fit: Pink Flight hostess Venus Mantrap Got the kind of job where you're up in the air a lot? Our personal trainer Julz Darroch has some quick fitness tips for jetsetters...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Non-existent 'polygamy' speech slammed
    Political lobby group Family First has slammed a speech by Minister of Social Development Ruth Dyson which reveals Labour's ‘covert' agenda for recognizing polygamous relationships – but Dyson denies she ever made the speech...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Polyamory: Family First's 'Phantom Menace'
    Labour's Ruth Dyson Christian Right lobby group Family First and pathetic gutter "journalist" Ian Wishart have attacked Labour's SocialDevelopment Minister, Ruth Dyson, over a non-existent social policy 'speech' that she never made 'endorsing' polygamy and polyamory...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney: Teen accused in gay beat murder
    Intellectually disabled northern Sydney man Gerard Fleming was killed in a public toilet known as a gay cruising ground, and now a teenager is accused of his murder...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tasmania: "Safe sex keeps gay blood safe"
    An inquiry into Tasmania's current ban on gay blood donation has heard that safe sex is effective in reducing HIV risk...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 13 Aug 2007

  • Hamilton's RENT will benefit HIV+ people
    A special performance of the award-winning rock musical RENT in Hamilton this month will raise money for people living with HIV and AIDS...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Jools Topp is Women's Weekly #1 lovable
    Openly-lesbian Kiwi entertainer Jools Topp - one half of singing and yodelling sister act The Topp Twins - has been named #1 New Zealand 'Women We Love' by Women's Weekly magazine...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • You want anarchy?
    Anarchy: A state of lawlessness or political disorder...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 13 Aug 2006

  • Wgtn: iMerst to increase gay exposure
    Just a day after iMerst bar in Wellington announced it would be appealing to the LGBT market, in the wake of the closures of both Pound nightclub and Monkey Bar, the owners say they will offer weekly nights for gays and lesbians – not monthly, as originally planned...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 13 Aug 2005

  • Christian Right "Voters Guides"
    Why isn't the Maxim Institute's nzvotes...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Destiny Challenges TVNZ
    After Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne's win in the High Court over TV3 which forced the station to include them in their leader's debate; Destiny New Zealand says they may follow suit and challenge TVNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New role for Kevin Hague
    Former AIDS Foundation executive director Kevin Hague has been named the new chief executive of the West Coast District Health Board...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Peter Blake award for Maxim head
    The managing director of the anti-gay think tank the Maxim Institute has been honoured with a Sir Peter Blake leadership award...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 13 Aug 2004

  • Leave us alone says McNee family
    Murdered interior designer David McNee's family said yesterday that they wished to be left alone to grieve in their own way, following a verdict which found Phillip Edwards not guilty of McNee's murder...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Marriage Under Fire
    Marriage Under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle, by James Dobson: Multnomah Books: Sisters, Oregon: 2004...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Marriage Under Fire
    Marriage Under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle, by James Dobson: Multnomah Books: Sisters, Oregon: 2004...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 13 Aug 2003

  • Ellis testimonies now on web
    Publisher Barry Colman has published further testimonies from children in the Peter Ellis case on the internet, in a bid to show just how much information was not given to the jury in the original Ellis trial...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marshall exposed by mystery website
    It has only been a few days since the launch of ex-Queer Nation presenter Jonathan Marshall's celebrity tabloid website, but the tables seemingly have been turned with the launch of a website all about Marshall...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 13 Aug 1999

Thu 13 Aug 1998

Wed 13 Aug 1997

Tue 13 Aug 1985

  • Baby Injury Case Acquittal (Press, 13 August 1985)
    On 13 August 1985, a transsexual individual, Jonathon Craig Ross, now known as Marianne Siouxsie Komene, was acquitted of three charges related to the ill-treatment of a baby girl who suffered brain damage. The trial took place over four days at the High Court in Auckland. After four hours of...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Television news report: a large anti homosexual law reform petition may not be accepted by Parliament (New Zealand)
    6:30pm News, ref: TZP13783.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news report: AIDS is high up on the agenda at the Laboratory Technicians Annual Conference. (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
    6:30pm News, ref: TZP14180.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news report: Interview with a gay rights activist about the Homosexual law Reform Bill. (New Zealand)
    Eyewitness News, ref: TZP135398.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 13 Aug 1983

  • A.i.d.s. ‘pretender’ Arrested (Press, 13 August 1983)
    On 13 August 1983, police in New York reported the arrest of 36-year-old Garnett Wilson in connection with a series of bank robberies. Between 18 and 30 July 1983, Wilson allegedly robbed at least ten banks, using a note to inform tellers that he was suffering from A.I.D.S. and had...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Auden: Poet By Choice (Press, 13 August 1983)
    In the review of Edward Callan's 1983 book "Auden: A Carnival of Intellect," John Summers reflects on the complexities of poet W. H. Auden's character and work. He contrasts Callan's more balanced analysis with Charles Osborne's earlier biography, which he criticises for its gossipy nature and lack of depth. Summers...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 13 Aug 1973

  • Sex-murder Toll Raised To 23 (Press, 13 August 1973)
    On 12 August 1973, a significant development in a horrific sex-and-murder case unfolded in Houston, Texas, as pathologists struggled to identify the remains of 23 victims. The investigation has already led to murder charges against two teenagers: David Owen Brooks, aged 18, and Wayne Henley, aged 17. Presently, only three...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 13 Aug 1970

  • News Media Attacked Over Crime Reports (Press, 13 August 1970)
    On 12 August 1970, Mr J. H. C. Larsen, a lecturer in law at Victoria University of Wellington and the Crown solicitor for Wellington, delivered a critique on the media's role in crime reporting and the ongoing demands for the liberalisation of laws surrounding abortion and homosexuality. He addressed his...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 13 Aug 1966

  • The Little Chevalier (Press, 13 August 1966)
    Edna Nixon's book "Royal Spy," a biography of the 18th century figure Chevalier Charles D’Eon de Beaumont, presents a sympathetic portrayal of its subject, contrasting sharply with Cynthia Cox's earlier work, "The Enigma of the Age," which depicted D’Eon as an annoying exhibitionist. Nixon takes a more nuanced view, particularly...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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