On This Day: 27th August

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Sun 27 Aug 2023

The Hottest Pics of Winter Pride’s Opening Night Party
Links: Express

Sat 27 Aug 2022

Nadia Bokody: 'Creepy' seduction difference between men and women
OPINION: Just under a couple of years ago, I came out as a lesbian in this column...
Links: NZ Herald

Fri 27 Aug 2021

Level 4 Lockdown With Wolfgang Rieg
Links: Express
Queer Kiwis in Lockdown: Kate Waltman
Links: Express
Rainbow Kiwi’s At Level 4: Rāwā Mahu Karetai Wood-Bodley
Links: Express
Surviving Lockdown with Paul Heard (AKA Papa Bear)
Links: Express
The Benchmark In Breathtaking | BMW’s All-New M3
Links: Express

Thu 27 Aug 2020

All Aboard! For the All LGBTQ+ Crew Pride Train
Links: Express

Tue 27 Aug 2019

'I want the killing to stop': US serial killer who terrorised gay communities
At first, US police didn't know they were sitting across from a notorious serial killer...
Links: Stuff
Transgender travellers humiliated as airport body scanners fail passengers
The American Transport Security Administration are facing fresh complaints from transgender regarding their latest security screening practices...
Links: NZ Herald
Video shared on social media of transgender women being dragged out of bar
A video was shared to Facebook of a group of transgender women being physically dragged out of a bar...
Links: NZ Herald
RuPaul’s Drag Race Is Heading To Australia
Links: Express

Sun 27 Aug 2017

Emirati filmmaker unsettles traditions, exposes hidden lives
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates " An Emirati filmmaker is pushing boundaries and bypassing state censors by delicately unraveling a story about a traditional Arab family grappling with issues of homosexual love, gender identity,...
Links: NZ Herald
NZ Aids Foundation say NZ could save millions by going HIV free
A pill to prevent the spread of Aids could save taxpayers more than $120 million, says the Aids Foundation, which is calling on politicians to promise funding...
Links: NZ Herald

Sat 27 Aug 2016

2 x Double Passes to Frisky and Mannish
Links: Express
Auckland Pride Festival Dates Announced
Links: Express
Familiar Face for Pride Festival Director
Links: Express
Ak Pride Festival 2017 dates announced
The 2017 Auckland Pride Festival will run for two weeks and three weekends from Friday February 10 to Sunday 26th...
Links: GayNZ.com
Cook "absolutely excited" to return as Festival Director
The new Festival Director of the Auckland Pride Festival says his return to the position allows him to use his talents to give back to the community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Julian Cook returns as Ak Pride Festival Director
Julian Cook The new director of the Auckland Pride Festival will be the man who originally set up the massive event then resigned amidst claims of poor and unilateral decision-making by the then-board...
Links: GayNZ.com
LGBTI Housing Crisis
While dealing with issues of transgender youth homelessness and street sex work several years ago, I discovered to my dismay that accounts of LGBTI dimensions of New Zealand's housing crisis are sparse and unsystematic...
Links: GayNZ.com
Queenstown gets behind Gay Ski Week QT
Queenstown is getting ready to host Gay Ski Week QT, with businesses decorating their front windows with rainbow colours for the occasion...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 27 Aug 2015

Legacy Project Seeks Submissions For Year Three
Links: Express
Stephen Fry Announces One Off Auckland Show
Links: Express
Trans Prisoner Wins Approval to be Moved to Women’s Prison
Links: Express
Corrections failure revealed in Follett case
Trans woman Jade Follett made a written request to be moved to a women's prison two months ago, but it was not processed when a Corrections staff member went on leave...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gillard has a change of heart on marriage
Two years after she was rolled as Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has changed her mind about same-sex marriage...
Links: GayNZ.com
Killer journo alleged anti-gay harassment
Vester Lee Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams An ex-journalist who shot a reporter and cameraman on live TV in the USA before himself dying alone in a car several hours later had complained of anti-gay harassment...
Links: GayNZ.com
Minister bans Gayby Baby from schools
New South Wales’ Education Minister has banned every school in the state from showing a documentary about children with gay parents during school hours...
Links: GayNZ.com
Protest action begins for jailed trans woman
Trans and queer advocacy group No Pride in Prisons has begun its hunger strike on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd, calling for a trans woman to be moved into a women’s prison...
Links: GayNZ.com
Stephen Fry to tell tales in Auckland
Stephen Fry will be in Auckland in December for a show where he promises to tell “some of the most marvellous stories ever heard”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans inmate moved to women's jail
UPDATED: Corrections has approved the transfer of trans woman Jade Follett to a women's prison - and she was moved this afternoon...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 27 Aug 2014

Foodie Bites: Get Real…Pasifik
Links: Express
Putting our Environment First
Links: Express
The Iconic Face of Gay Masculinity
Links: Express
Comment: Your own personal Jesus
It was uplifting to see Sinéad O’Connor’s comeback single “Take me to Church” from her newly released album...
Links: GayNZ.com
Conservatives near threshold in new poll
A party riddled with homophobic candidates has neared the five per cent threshold in a new poll, just weeks out from the election...
Links: GayNZ.com
Election priorities: 5 for '14
The Gay Men’s Sexual Health Research Group at Auckland University has released its five 2014 election priorities, and they include a funded HPV vaccine, safer general practices and the collection of stats...
Links: GayNZ.com
Election priorities: 5 for '14
The Gay Men’s Sexual Health Research Group at Auckland University has released its five 2014 election priorities, and they include a funded HPV vaccine, safer general practices and the collection of stats...
Links: GayNZ.com
Glbti students urged to get involved
Michael Stevens A prominent gay activist and researcher is urging young glbti people to shrug off complacency and to get involved in further improving the lives of glbti people...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hilarious video: Armagayddon
The Irish have come up with the most hilarious take on marriage equality yet, in this spoof where it causes the end of one straight couple’s world! The video was made by LGBT NOISE ahead of the March for Marriage in Dublin...
Links: GayNZ.com
Priorities for gay/bi men's health listed
Dr Peter Saxton A funded HPV vaccine, safer general practices and the collection of statistics are among a list of five ways a government could improve the sexual health of gay and bisexual men in New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com
Reimagining Earnest
Take one ingeniously witty Oscar Wilde play, set it in 1950s London, add an all-male cast and Cher’s greatest hits, and you have an utterly gay imagining which its director advises is “The Importance of Being Earnest like you’ve never seen before”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Review: Wine Lips
Chelsea McEwan Millar as Brit Wine LipsWritten and directed by Sam Brooks Starring Chelsea McEwan Millar and Nic Sampson Basement Theatre, Auckland 26 - 30 August Tickets here While a lack-lustre and semi-professional 'boylesque' show plays out on stage an actor and stage manager meet up for what may well be the last time...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sydney fills the Bingham Cup with love
We’ve been keeping up with the NZ Falcons RFC as they prepare to compete this week against inclusive clubs from around the globe in the Bingham Cup and as it boils down to the fields of battle, let’s catch up on how the Harbour City is welcoming this unique sporting celebration...
Links: GayNZ.com
Violence at Wellington gay bar condemned
Human Rights Commissioner Richard Tankersley has condemned violence at a Wellington gay bar, saying “New Zealand’s excellent human rights record means little if some New Zealanders are still attacked because of who they are...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 27 Aug 2013

Street declares suppport for Robertson's bid
Maryan Street Lesbian Labour MP Maryan Street has indicated she she supports Grant Robertson over David Cunliffe for the Labour leadership...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ugandan lesbian activist still fighting for life
A Ugandan lesbian activist remains in a coma and is still fighting for her life after a frightening attack, in the eastern region of her country...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 27 Aug 2012

Body "unable" to take further action over booklet
File photo The Human Rights Commission says it's unable to take further action over an Auckland Council booklet which uses the term “transvestite” to describe transgender sex workers...
Links: GayNZ.com
Candidate ditches "anti-gay" Conservatives
Rusty Kane A former New Plymouth mayoral candidate has resigned from the Conservative Party in response to its “anti-gay stance”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Conservative churches make anti-equality plea
The old "Adam and Steve" argument (debunked in the picture above) is back again...
Links: GayNZ.com
Human Rights Commission endorses equality
The Human Rights Commission has issued an endorsement of marriage and adoption equality...
Links: GayNZ.com
Meet: playwright Sam Brooks
He is just 21, and gay playwright Sam Brooks has scored a double bill at Auckland’s The Basement next week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wall's marriage bill set to pass first reading
A national newspaper’s straw poll of MPs shows Louisa Wall’s marriage equality bill is set to narrowly pass its first reading, which is likely to be this Wednesday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Young political voices unite in call for equality
Parliament - file photo The youth wings of five political parties have issued a joint statement urging all their MPs to vote in favour of Louisa Wall’s same sex marriage bill at its first reading on Wednesday...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 27 Aug 2011

All Aboard - Family's turning 6
Polly Petrie is crossing the ditch for the birthday bash Auckland's loudest and proudest drag diva Miss Ribena has a clear message to everyone heading to Family's sixth birthday party on Sunday: get there early...
Links: GayNZ.com
Arrest made in killing of gay New Zealander
Charles Jones was found dead in a Thai apartment An arrest has been made over the murder of gay Westport man Charles Jones in Thailand...
Links: GayNZ.com
Friends relieved at arrest over Thailand killing
A shot from CCTV footage of the murder suspect The Christchurch man who found the body of his murdered travel buddy in Thailand is expressing relief an arrest has been made, but says the killing could have happened anywhere...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lauper shows true colours with youth shelter
Gay icon Cyndi Lauper is giving back to the community which adores her Cyndi Lauper has unveiled plans for the The True Colours Residence, Manhattan's first permanent housing for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in Harlem...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 27 Aug 2010

'Cross-dressing spy' murdered in London flat
Gareth Williams British police believe a spy whose body was found stuffed into a bag at his London flat may have been killed by a jealous lover...
Links: GayNZ.com
Comment: 4am closure will yield new tradition
Mike Binis Now that changes to the Liquor Laws are on the horizon, many are worried that when all the bars close at the same time, there will be a 4am spill...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay electronic duo to launch album
Gay electronic pop duo Manthyng are launching their debut album at K' Road's Naval and Family on Saturday night...
Links: GayNZ.com
New OUTLine General Manager appointed
Vaughan Meneses Current board member and volunteer Vaughan Meneses has been appointed General Manager of OUTLine...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 27 Aug 2009

Age-gap gay drama on stage in Auckland
A love story between a twenty-year-old student and a sixty-year-old business mentor is explored in a new short play on stage in Auckland's Ellerslie Theatre until this weekend...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ambach sentencing postponed
Ferdinand Ambach's appearance in court to be sentenced for the manslaughter of an elderly gay Onehunga man has been delayed until September 18th...
Links: GayNZ.com
Homophobic stationery product withdrawn
Red-faced Progressive Enterprises, owner of the Foodtown, Woolworths and Countdown supermarket chains, has urgently withdrawn a stationery product whose packaging includes what they acknowledge is an offensive homophobic poem...
Links: GayNZ.com
Provocation Indefensible
Parliament gave unanimous support to the first reading of the provocation defence abolition bill, with some warning signs from ACT's David Garrett...
Links: GayNZ.com
Six guys in the running for Mr. Gay Waikato
Hamilton's annual Mr...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans woman performs her own sex surgery
A 61-year-old transwoman from Wales got so frustrated with the wait for her gender reassignment surgery that she attempted to perform her own operation, on herself, in her bathroom...
Links: GayNZ.com
Transgender law change support grows
MPs from across the main political parties are pledging their support for changes to legislation to improve the legal status of transgender people...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 27 Aug 2008

"It's a lesbian takeover" - Sir Bob Jones
Outspoken media personality Sir Bob Jones says a "lesbian takeover of Wellington" is behind a new law requiring a court jury 'foreman' to instead be called a 'foreperson'...
Links: GayNZ.com
After NZ success, Aussies plan fast HIV tests
Australia's AIDS councils will reconsider seeking access to rapid HIV and syphilis tests over the next six months following the introduction of rapid 10 to 20-minute tests in New Zealand, reports the Sydney Star Observer...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hamilton's 2nd Pride Week announced
Following the success of Hamilton's inaugural Pride Week last December, Waikato will celebrate its second full week of LGBT events beginning Saturday 27 September...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Woman ejected for lesbian T-Shirt
A California woman was threatened with arrest and forced to leave a government building because a security guard objected to her 'lesbian...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 27 Aug 2007

"Safe Sex Poster Boys come on down!"
New Zealand's gay and bisexual men of all shapes and sizes have until September 30 to step forward as potential models for a new team of safe sex poster boys for Gay Men's Health...
Links: GayNZ.com
Bomb scare clears Family nightclub party
2AM: Last night's busy second anniversary party night at Auckland's Family nightclub was disrupted by a bomb scare, with hundreds of patrons cleared out onto the pavement for half an hour while a police search of the premises took place...
Links: GayNZ.com
Family bar bomb scare caller will face court
A 37-year-old man was arrested and will appear in court for allegedly making prank calls which caused Family nightclub to be evacuated last night...
Links: GayNZ.com
Indonesia: Film fest tells taboo stories
The opening of Indonesia's week-long gay film festival drew a flamboyant crowd in the capital Jakarta on Friday, with members of the audience dressed in colourful wigs, fish-net stockings and cupid wings...
Links: GayNZ.com
Serial killer slays Shortland Street lesbian
Tonight's one-hour episode of TV2's flagship local drama Shortland Street was the last to feature popular lesbian character Jay Copeland, who was found dead, seemingly at the hands of a serial killer...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 27 Aug 2006

Herkt wins top award for drugs doco
Gay social commentator and editor of Jack magazine, David Herkt, has scooped a top award for his ground-breaking and controversial television documentary, ‘High Times'...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 27 Aug 2005

Hidden agender?
On reproductive rights, National's Paul Hutchison is a good, reliable social liberal...
Links: GayNZ.com
Homophobia in paradise?
The man who hacked to death gay New Zealanders John Scott and Greg Scrivener in Fiji in 2001 was revealed earlier this month to have been already freed from a Fijian psychiatric institution - after serving just two years of what was supposed to have been a life incarceration...
Links: GayNZ.com
Nana Mouskouri - an opponent of LGBT equality
Bespectacled Greek diva Nana Mouskouri, just finishing her New Zealand tour, is at first glance liberal and gay-friendly...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 27 Aug 2004

"Intolerance has an economic cost" - studies
Intolerance, including that towards gays and lesbians, is damaging for growth and jobs as well as a nation's international reputation...
Links: GayNZ.com
"Practise what you preach!" says exporter
Destiny Church has come under fire from MADENZ, a Nelson-based exporter of New Zealand-made products, after the fundamentalist church's angry acolytes marched on Parliament against Civil Unions wearing black tee shirts "cut from the cloth of China...
Links: GayNZ.com
Media biased say Maxim supporters
Why has the media in New Zealand ignored coverage of the gay marriage ban in Australia, the Maxim Institute wants to know...
Links: GayNZ.com
Observations from the Destiny blackshirt rally
OBSERVATIONS #1: (Written after reading Tapu Misa's column in the NZ Herald) I was at the March, opposing Tamaki and his herd...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sorry Brian, not in this country!
By now Destiny Church should be getting the message that the rest of us have had quite enough of them, especially in Wellington...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trade Unions backing Civil Union Bills
The NZ Council of Trade Unions has declared its support for the Civil Unions legislations, saying it is "standing up against the misinformation and prejudice of those who deny basic human rights to others solely because of their sexual orientation...
Links: GayNZ.com
What is wrong with Stephen Franks?
Dear Mr Franks, I'm writing to thank you for your support of the Civil Union Bills, and your fair and reasoned comments made in the media this week about supporters of it...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 27 Aug 2003

Editing of gay kisses not discriminatory
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has decided not to uphold a complaint made against TVNZ by viewers for editing scenes of a male couple kissing during singer Christina Aguilera's Beautiful music clip...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 27 Aug 2002

Gay ex-cop encourages gays to join force
Gays and lesbians should still consider a career in the police force, says the country's highest profile police officer who resigned from the force last week...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 27 Aug 1998

Television item (New Zealand)
Queer Nation, ref: TZP205547.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Mccormick, ref: TZP204656.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 27 Aug 1990

Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP93201.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 27 Aug 1979

Homosexual Law Reform (Press, 27 August 1979)
In a letter to the editor published on 27 August 1979, Martin Oelderink, the regional representative of the National Gay Rights Coalition, commended Mr Freer for his decision to withdraw his homosexual law reform bill. However, Oelderink expressed strong disapproval of Freer's portrayal of the opposition from gay rights groups...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 27 Aug 1977

Police Probe Tv ‘smear’ (Press, 27 August 1977)
On 27 August 1977, the ongoing tensions between the New Zealand police and television programming came to the forefront as top-level discussions were initiated to address allegations of unfair treatment portrayed on TV. The Commissioner of Police, Mr K. B. Burnside, began discussions with TVI's Director-General, Mr Allen Morris, which...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 27 Aug 1973

Priest Talks To Gay Liberation Meeting (Press, 27 August 1973)
During the Gay Liberation national conference held in Christchurch on 26 and 27 August 1973, the Rev. F. Donnelly, a Roman Catholic priest operating a support bureau for homosexuals in Auckland, condemned aversion therapy for homosexuals as “abhorrent” and a significant affront to individual identity. He urged psychiatrists and society...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 27 Aug 1960

Pelican Books (Press, 27 August 1960)
In a review published on 27 August 1960, D.J. West's book "Homosexuality" is acknowledged for contributing to the understanding of a topic often surrounded by misunderstanding and stigma. The commentary emphasises that many people wrongly believe male homosexuals pose a significant risk to children, despite a lack of evidence suggesting...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 27 Aug 1954

Murder Charge (Press, 27 August 1954)
The trial of Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, nearly 16, accused of murdering Parker's mother, Honora Mary Parker, on June 22, 1954, continued with a five-day hearing at the Supreme Court. The defence introduced expert testimony from several psychiatrists who posited that the girls were suffering from a shared...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 27 Aug 1943

US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits New Zealand with her aide Norah Walton (New Zealand)
Roosevelt is in New Zealand to inspect the American troops and the American Red Cross.
Links: Papers Past, National Library

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