On This Day: 1st September

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Fri 1 Sep 2023

Queenstown mayor calls out transphobic sign at Rainbow reading
The sign was branded 'bullying and bigotry masquerading as concern' by mayor Glyn Lewers...
Links: Stuff
Alternative Queer Auckland
Links: Express
Auckland’s Alternative Queer Scene
Links: Express
David Leslie: FAboriginal Fashion
Links: Express
Feeling Frisky? One Night In Heaven Auckland
Links: Express
Gay Dating: Attachment Issues
Links: Express

Thu 1 Sep 2022

Fundraiser in support of Melbourne bartender who spat in neo-Nazi's beer raising money for queer charities
A Melbourne bartender who was fired after he spat in a known neo-Nazi's beer has received support from the Irish community in Australia as a 'No bar for Nazis' event is planned...
Links: NZ Herald
LGBTQI News Roundup – 2nd September 2022
and#8216;Null and voidand#8217;: Judge strikes down Saint Kitts anti-gay law A top court for nine easternand#160;Caribbean nationsand#160;and territories hasand#160;ruledand#160;that sexual orientation and homosexual activity are protected under the right to privacy, invalidating colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexual behaviour in Saint Kitts and Nevis...
Links: Andrew Whiteside
Rainbow Warrior dive stirs emotions for Scotty Morrison and Dover Samuels
The first international terrorist attack in New Zealand is one of the subjects of a TV series partly filmed at Northland's Matauri Bay...
Links: NZ Herald
SIPPING VODKA WITH GRAHAM NORTON
Links: Express
USA Records Frist Death of Person Diagnosed With Monkeypox
Links: Express

Wed 1 Sep 2021

Finland Set To Ban Conversion Therapy
Links: Express
Have Your Say On Banning Conversion Therapy In Aotearoa
Links: Express

Tue 1 Sep 2020

Need for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Cook Islands
The head of the body representing the Cook Islands rainbow community is seeking to have the country's laws aligned with its constitution so as to stop discrimination against gay men...
Links: RNZ
Jennifer Lopez Releases Short Film Introducing Her Transgender Nibling Brendon
Links: Express

Sun 1 Sep 2019

Dita Von Teese: The burlesque superheroine on a mission
Dita Von Teese wants to change the conversation about age, sexuality and performance...
Links: Stuff
OUT and ABOUT FOR QUEENSTOWN’S WINTER PRIDE | OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Links: Express

Sat 1 Sep 2018

Sara Fraser talks about the Queer Avengers (Wellington)
Sara Fraser talks about the history of the Queer Avengers and some of its activities
Features: Sara Fraser
Links: PrideNZ.com
MAHURU / SEPTEMBER 2018
Kia ora and welcome to our Mahuru update, full of Pride, parties, conferences, art and activities...
Links: Lesbian News Aotearoa
‘Blessed Day’ Anika Moa and Natasha Utting Having a Second Baby
Links: Express
Erasing the Law Against Love
Links: Express
Urinal Survey Exposes Homophobia Amongst Straight Men in Christchurch
Links: Express

Fri 1 Sep 2017

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 1 September 2017
Gay detainees fear for their lives and future if Australia close the detention centre on Manus Island; the Supervisor of Elections in Tonga says his office is rushing to get the country ready for a vote a year before schedule, after last week's royal dissolution of parliament was accompanied by an order that elections be held on or before November 16; A two day South Auckland fono aims to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit among Pacific people; CNMI hopes US military plans wont disupt its growing tourism industry; And in sport Fijian Drua aiming high in Australian rugby debut...
Links: RNZ
Gay detainees on Manus fear for their future
Gay men detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island after fleeing their homelands now face being forced to live in a country where homosexuality is illegal...
Links: RNZ
Gay detainees on Manus Island are outlaws in PNG
Gay detainees fear for their lives and future if Australia close the detention centre on Manus Island...
Links: RNZ
Gay detainees on Manus outlaws in PNG
For gay men who fled persecution in their homelands to seek asylum in Australia, detention on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island offers a special kind of torture...
Links: RNZ
Mahuru / September 2017
Kia ora and welcome to our Mahuru update, with a topical cartoon from Helen Courtney...
Links: Lesbian News Aotearoa
Auckland Live’s International Cabaret Season Shows
Links: Express
Diversity Has To Be More Than Skin Deep
Links: Express
Gay Maori Artists performing at Te Pou Festival
Links: Express
Hello My Endless Love
Links: Express
Hottie: Stephen Williams
Links: Express
Redefining Design
Links: Express
Roger Hall’s Last Legs promises lots of laughs!
Links: Express
September: Ask Agony Uncle Eli
Links: Express

Thu 1 Sep 2016

Jenny and Jools (Kapiti Coast District)
Jenny Rowan and Jools Joslin talk to Justin Gregory about marriage equality
Features: Brian Tamaki, Jenny Rowan, John Banks, Jonathan Young, Jools Joslin, Louisa Wall, Maurice Williamson
Links: PrideNZ.com
Trans surgery waitlists stretch five decades
Trans people waiting for gender reassignment surgery could be left waiting decades, as the waiting list grows and wait times increase, The Wireless reports...
Links: RNZ
Diversity Day Drag Race at the Remarkables
Links: Express
GSWQT Cabaret Night, Oh My!
Links: Express
Lodge owner pleads guilty to filming male guests
A Kaitaia backpackers owner has pleaded guilty in the High Court of Whangarei to 42 charges including filming intimate recordings of male guests and drugging and indecently assaulting guests...
Links: GayNZ.com
Meet the LGBTI Rio Paralympians
With less than a week before the Paralympics kick off in Rio, we take a look at the openly queer Paralympians getting set to compete...
Links: GayNZ.com
Nigel Owens to speak at Auckland event
The first openly gay rugby personality, who refereed at last year’s Rugby World Cup, will be speaking in Auckland this October...
Links: GayNZ.com
Waitlist for MtF surgery almost 50 years
With now over 85 people on the waiting list for gender reassignment surgery and taking into account the current rate these surgeries are being undertaken, those on the list are facing a wait of almost 50 years...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 1 Sep 2015

Gay Ski Week NZ’s iHeartRadio Ice Skating Party
Links: Express
Gay Ski Week QT’s Quiz Night
Links: Express
Behind the closure of BP Wellington
Body Positive's Wellington presence has been housed in this Courtenay Place building...
Links: GayNZ.com
Behind the closure of BP Wellington
Body Positive's Wellington presence has been housed in this Courtenay Place building...
Links: GayNZ.com
GaySkiWeekQT: Days 3and4 - On the slopes
A light snowfall up top of The Remarkables Time for a post-Cardrona 4WD-wash! TUES 12...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 1 Sep 2014

Editorial – The Election Issue
Links: Express
Gaydar Strippers Night – Gay Ski Week Queenstown
Links: Express
Labour’s Rainbow Promises
Links: Express
Mr Gay World Won By Mr Gay UK
Links: Express
NZ Falcons Win Bingham Bowl
Links: Express
Flying Falcons "gave it everything"
The New Zealand Falcons will be staggering home from Sydney full of pride after proving they were truly the dark horses in their first ever Bingham Cup...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gays are like 'cold water over nipples'
Blogger and commentator Cathy “Cactus Kate” Odgers appears to say gay people are “f*cking gross” and their appearance at a bar next door was like “having cold water poured over ones nipples” in the latest release of hacked conversations between the players in Dirty Politics...
Links: GayNZ.com
Goulter silent on reason for departure
Jevan Goulter (r) with Mana MP Hone Harawira Mana Party senior parliamentary staffer Jevan Goulter will not clarify the reasons behind his departure from the position, saying it is "none of GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Legend may return after three months
Legend staff on Saturday night including Grady Elliott, right Auckland's Legend bar and nightclub may be back in three months' time, according to owner Grady Elliott...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mr Gay NZ, Oz pulled out of Mr Gay World
Mr Gay New Zealand Troy Williams As mystery continues to surround the last-minute withdrawal of Mr Gay New Zealand from the Mr Gay World contest, a sponsor of the Australian contestant has explained his reason for also pulling out...
Links: GayNZ.com
Watch: Falcons fly in final
See the Falcons and their almighty haka in action in this video from the Bingham Bowl final at the Bingham Cup in Sydney...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 1 Sep 2013

Review: La Cage Aux Folles in Queenstown
Rutene Spooner as Albin/Zsa Zsa La Cage Aux Folles Book by Harvey Fierstein Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman Directed by Bryan Aitken for Showbiz Queenstown 1 - 7 September 2013, for Gay Ski Week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Towards LGBT Antibullying Laws in NZ
Comprehensive anti-bullying legislation is probably the last frontier for LGBT rights in New Zealand, after the passage of comprehensive human rights protections for the transgender community...
Links: GayNZ.com
WINZ to use 'std. criteria' for HIV people's homes
Many people battling HIV currently live in HNZ units such as these in central Auckland Housing New Zealand says that gay men living with HIV will be assessed using the same criteria as is used for other groups that are in need of state housing, under the new merging process undertaken by both Housing New Zealand and Work and Income New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 1 Sep 2012

"That's so gay" has lasting impact, study finds
File photo US: Research from the University of Michigan says queer students who hear phrases such as "that’s so gay" more often are more likely to suffer headaches, eating problems and feelings of isolation...
Links: GayNZ.com
One-man play to pay tribute to Carmen
A tribute to the late Carmen Rupe is being held at the Museum of Wellington City ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Stand of Northland teacher applauded
NIgel Studdart on Close Up The Queer Avengers are condemning the suspension of a Whangarei teacher who backed students who stood up for marriage equality in the face of their principal’s opposition, at a Catholic school...
Links: GayNZ.com
The “M” word
Dr Peter Saxton from the AIDS Epidemiology group has responded to an opinion piece from a religious history lecturer, who has cited the group’s research in his piece “Fidelity in marriage an issue for gay men”, to argue against gay men being allowed to marry their partners...
Links: GayNZ.com
The “M” word
Dr Peter Saxton from the AIDS Epidemiology group has responded to an opinion piece from a religious history lecturer, who has cited the group’s research in his piece “Fidelity in marriage an issue for gay men”, to argue against gay men being allowed to marry their partners...
Links: GayNZ.com
The “M” word
Dr Peter Saxton from the AIDS Epidemiology group has responded to an opinion piece from a religious history lecturer, who has cited the group’s research in his piece “Fidelity in marriage an issue for gay men”, to argue against gay men being allowed to marry their partners...
Links: GayNZ.com
Urge to go blue for prostate cancer tonight
Urge has been fundraising for Blue September for five years Auckland gay bar Urge is once again asking its patrons to help support the Prostate Cancer Foundation, with a fundraiser tonight for its Blue September appeal...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 1 Sep 2010

Bring on summer!
Spring is sprung! At that means after another yucky winter, summer is right around the corner! From short shorts to BBQs, GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Film nights to launch with NY comedy
A comedy about a 'fruit-fly' looking for a 'fag stag' will be the first in a series of films which will be screened in a new monthly gay movie night in Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay oral history projects win funding
A block from the NZ AIDS Memorial Quilt Funding has been granted to two projects which will preserve New Zealand's gay and lesbian history...
Links: GayNZ.com
New gay reality series for US TV
New gay reality TV series The A-List: New York, will premiere on the 4th of October on US LGBT TV network Logo...
Links: GayNZ.com
New reality series The A-List: New York
GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tasmania to recognise same-sex unions
Laws recognising same-sex marriages and civil unions registered in other states or countries have been approved in Tasmania's Lower House of Parliament...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 1 Sep 2009

Adoption Reform: We Need Readiness
Let's assume that Kevin Hague's adoption reform bill is pulled from the ballot box within the next few weeks...
Links: GayNZ.com
Akld Central MP to speak at GABA meet
Auckland Central's National Party MP Nikki Kaye is scheduled to speak and take questions at tomorrow's Gay Auckland Business Association meeting...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fast response to anti-gay poem praised
New Zealand's largest gay business association has reacted positively to the rapid removal from supermarket shelves last week of a stationery product illustrated with a homophobic poem...
Links: GayNZ.com
The search for an undies model ends this Sunday
Each weekend recently we've been showing you two more contestants in the running for Lex Collections' SEARCH FOR AN UNDERWEAR MODEL 2009 - and now it's almost time for the final! UPDATE 3 September: Two more guys have entered the contest - see them here...
Links: GayNZ.com
The search for an undies model ends this Sunday
Each weekend recently we've been showing you two more contestants in the running for Lex Collections' SEARCH FOR AN UNDERWEAR MODEL 2009 - and now it's almost time for the final! UPDATE 3 September: Two more guys have entered the contest - see them here...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK: BBC green-lights new lesbian drama
The BBC has announced it has commissioned a new TV series about the sex lives of 20-something lesbians living in Glasgow...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 1 Sep 2008

120 Pacific HIV+ people gather in Auckland
HIV positive people from throughout the Pacific are today arriving in Auckland to discuss issues relating to combating stigma and discrimination and gaining access to treatments in Pacific Island nations...
Links: GayNZ.com
ING Insurance dumps gay sex questions
ING Insurance's decision to remove policy application questions which may be offensive to gay men is being hailed as a significant victory by LGBT advocacy network Rainbow Wellington...
Links: GayNZ.com
PI health boss: Isolate HIV people on colony
A suggestion by Niue's Director of Health that Pacific Island people with HIV should be locked up in a colony to isolate them from the general population has disgusted HIV education and support workers throughout the Pacific...
Links: GayNZ.com
WGN: A High School Ball Prom for all ages
For those who couldn't take their same sex partner to their High School Ball, UniQ in Wellington is staging a High School Prom Ball in two weeks' time as an opportunity to fill the gap...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 1 Sep 2007

A pleasantly plump remake of Hairspray
It was a film, then a Broadway musical, and now it's a film again...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay and lesbian film festival on Triangle TV
Triangle Television's popular gay and lesbian film and documentary festival, 'Sproquets', will screen for an eight-week season starting on 7 October...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gays should remain primary NZAF focus
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation will be required to continue to primarily focus its efforts and resources on men who have sex with men under conditions included in the draft of a new Deed of Trust which received provisional backing from members this afternoon...
Links: GayNZ.com
USA: Anti-gay group blocked from hotel
'Americans for Truth', an organisation from Naperville, Illinois dedicated to "confronting the homosexual activist agenda," will have to find a new hotel to host its annual fund-raiser on 6th October...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 1 Sep 2005

Choirs to appear in Trans-tasman team-up
The Sydney Gay ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Dis/United?
On current polling, Peter Dunne will be alone again after the next general election...
Links: GayNZ.com
Pragmatic Conservatism? Why Colin James is Wrong
Like the NBR, Herald columnist Colin James seems to think that Labour is in trouble with its traditional constituencies over 'political correctness...
Links: GayNZ.com
Suffering Sappho!!!
Fundamentalists have attacked popular culture since time immemorial...
Links: GayNZ.com
Transsexual criticises media "bigots"
73 year old transsexual Vicki Harvey has lashed out at the public after being denied her sex change surgery, blaming "bigoted correspondents" to the Taranaki Daily News using her case as a "political weapon"...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 1 Sep 2004

Television item (New Zealand)
Face To Face With Kim Hill, ref: TZP292757.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Anti-Civil Unions "expert" Whitehead slammed by researchers
The winner of GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Little boys in black shirts... again
When Destiny Church unleashed its "Enough is Enough" contingent, many observers were shocked to see the presence of very young children in the march...
Links: GayNZ.com
Many glbt folk are parenting... and schoolyards are a worry
Thirty-seven percent of women and 14% of men responding to the Lavender Islands national survey of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people report having some kind of parenting relationship with children...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mayoral wannabes in gay forum
With gay-friendliness in the mayor's office being an issue for Auckland's gay and lesbian population it's perhaps appropriate that the first public forum of Queen City Mayoral candidates has been orgaised by the gay community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ten bad arguments "against" glbt relationship equality
In this week's US Christianity Today magazine, Robert Benne and Gerald McDermott provided some questionable "rebuttals" of claims made to advance the cause of lesbian and gay relationship equality...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tim Bray's Foibles
Tim Bray FOIBLES Written and presented by Tim Bray Directed by Amanda Rees Herald Theatre till 11 September...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 1 Sep 2003

My family has been threatened, says Holmes
Paul Holmes is incensed that his address and phone numbers have been published on NZ Tabloid...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 1 Sep 2000

Television item (New Zealand)
Tonight, ref: TZP232555.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 1 Sep 1998

Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP203454.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 1 Sep 1997

Television item (New Zealand)
Breakfast, ref: TZP189127.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sun 1 Sep 1996

Television item (New Zealand)
Tagata Pasifika, ref: TZP174530.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 1 Sep 1993

Nicki Eddy becomes the first full-time paid worker for the New Zealand [AIDS Memorial] Quilt Project (Auckland, New Zealand)
Eddy is the National Convenor for the quilt
Links: NZQP newsletter

Sat 1 Sep 1990

Television item (New Zealand)
Network News, ref: TZP93286.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 1 Sep 1984

A.I.D.S. Carrier Sought (Press, 1 September 1984)
On 1 September 1984, health authorities in Sydney were actively trying to identify an unknown carrier of A.I.D.S. This concern arose after it was revealed that three individuals—two men and one woman—might have contracted the disease from contaminated blood. Two of these individuals received blood from a previously identified infected...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
The Wellington Gay Task Force is formed (Wellington, New Zealand)
The group is formed by John McDavitt, Bill Logan and others.
Links: LAGANZ (1), LAGANZ (2)

Wed 1 Sep 1982

Concern Unites Women’s Conference (Press, 1 September 1982)
On 1 September 1982, a major gathering of approximately 180 women occurred in Palmerston North for the annual conference of the Women’s Studies Association. Participants from Christchurch noted a sense of happiness and unity throughout the event, although discussions were dominated by concerns over education cuts impacting women's studies programs....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 1 Sep 1980

'Street’ Star Named In Row (Press, 1 September 1980)
On 1 September 1980, a London court heard details of a tumultuous love life involving a sex-change woman, Edwina White, and former "Coronation Street" actress Jennifer Moss. White, 25, had boasted in court about her lesbian relationship with Moss, who is known to millions as Lucille Hewitt. This revelation came...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Gay Books For ‘smith’ (Press, 1 September 1980)
On 1 September 1980, Patricia Bartlett, a known campaigner for moral issues in Wellington, found herself in a complex situation regarding the importation of five homosexual-themed books. The titles, which included "Split the Sky," "Getting the Shaft," "Men of the Bluegrass," "A Camp in the Woods," and "A Shot in...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 1 Sep 1976

Nastase Beats Tanner (Press, 1 September 1976)
Nastase of Romania triumphed over Roscoe Tanner from the United States with a score of 6-4, 6-2 to secure the US$60,000 "Tennis Week" open tournament this week. Both players viewed the match as a valuable opportunity to prepare for the upcoming United States Open. Nastase expressed his desire to win...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 1 Sep 1973

Behaviourist Idea Of Homosexuality (Press, 1 September 1973)
On 1 September 1973, B. S. Parsonson and P. N. Priest from the New Zealand Psychological Society’s division of behaviour analysis expressed their disagreement with comments made by Father F. Donnelly at the Gay Liberation national conference held in Christchurch. Father Donnelly asserted that homosexuality is an unchangeable reality that...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 1 Sep 1972

Letters To The Editor (Press, 1 September 1972)
On 1 September 1972, a set of guidelines for submitting letters to a newspaper column was outlined to ensure clarity and professionalism in correspondence. Letters should be limited to 150 words and typed or written with clear ink on one side of the paper, with sufficient margins and spacing for...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 1 Sep 1967

Supreme Court Crown Appeals Against Decision On... (Press, 1 September 1967)
On 1 September 1967, the Crown appealed to the Supreme Court regarding a decision made by a magistrate to vacate convictions against two men for charges related to homosexual activities. During the appeal, Mr C. M. Roper, representing the Crown, argued that the case warranted serious legal scrutiny due to...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 1 Sep 1962

Knowledge Is Just One Universe After Another (Press, 1 September 1962)
Dr. G. Schlesinger, a senior lecturer at the Australian National University, presented a thought-provoking paper entitled “What Is Science For?” at the A.N.Z.A.A.S. Congress in Sydney. He proposed a hypothetical society that retains an eighteenth-century understanding of geometry, juxtaposed with highly advanced technology capable of intergalactic travel. Illustrating his argument,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 1 Sep 1916

A Bill is introduced to allow females to wear male clothing and take a male first name (Melbourne, Australia)
The Colonist newspaper reports the move as "freak legislation in Victoria".
Links: Papers Past

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