On This Day: 2nd September

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Sat 2 Sep 2023

Chris Hipkins needs to prove he is a queer ally through action, not acting - Shaneel Lal
OPINION: 'I challenge Hipkins to commit to legislative protection for queers...
Links: NZ Herald
Divorce: How to survive a split with your health intact
Apart from hurting your pride, bank balance and heart, a split can cause other challenges...
Links: NZ Herald
Pics: Thrills And Spills at Family Bar Auckland
Links: Express

Fri 2 Sep 2022

Icon, artist, trailblazer: Lindah Lepou finally gets the recognition she deserves
A trailblazer in New Zealand's queer and Pacific cultures, Lepou is the first recipient of the Arts Foundation Toi Kō Iriiri Award for outstanding queer artist...
Links: Stuff
Lindah Lepou and Tame Iti among 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi laureates
Lindah Lepou is the first recipient of the 2022 Toi Kō Iriiri Queer Laureate Award, presented at the 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates on Friday...
Links: Stuff
Lindah Lepou and Tame Iti among 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi laureates
Lindah Lepou is the first recipient of the 2022 Toi Kō Iriiri Queer Laureate Award, presented at the 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates on Friday...
Links: Stuff
News 2 Me: Gender and pronouns
What is non-binary and what does it mean to be transsexual? Trans and gender diverse people can face challenges but one way we can help is by recognising a person’s ‘pronoun’ – such as he, she or they...
Links: RNZ
Recap: Lindah Lepou accepts first Toi Ko Iriiri Queer Arts Award in bare feet at Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Awards
"Lindah is a powerful advocate who has been telling a story in the arts world for decades" said Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Trustee Hall Cannon when presenting the award...
Links: Stuff
APO Brings Big Screen Adventures To Move A Modern Family
Links: Express
Biden Urged To Cement LGBTQ+ Rights Following Deliberate Efforts In Rolling...
Links: Express
CELEBRATING LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM WEST SIDE STORY
Links: Express
Chris Davis: From Landscaper To Award-Winning World of WearableArt Designer
Links: Express
Hannah Tasker-Poland: Made For It!
Links: Express
TOPP CLASS! Special Variety Show Announced To Celebrate LGBTQ+ Icons The...
Links: Express

Thu 2 Sep 2021

Elton John To Drop New Album Featuring Collabs From Nicki Minaj,...
Links: Express
New Zealand International Film Festival Announces First Films
Links: Express

Wed 2 Sep 2020

Cooks Islands rainbow community lobbies for constitutional rights
The Cook Islands LGBT+ association is citing the country's Constitution as it seeks to stop laws discriminating against gay men...
Links: RNZ
World Rugby's trans women ban proposal slammed by academic group
The letter to World Rugby says there is no peer-reviewed, scientific evidence to justify a ban which would only be harmful to trans and gender-diverse people...
Links: Stuff
In Case You Missed It: Gaga and Grande Perform ‘Rain On Me’...
Links: Express
Taylor Swift Sends Touching Letter and Gifts to Openly Gay Fan
Links: Express

Mon 2 Sep 2019

If These Walls Could Talk
Links: Express

Sun 2 Sep 2018

Battle lines drawn between feminists and trans activists over sex self identification
Hostilities between feminists and transgender activists are coming to a head as the sex self identification debate heats up...
Links: Stuff

Sat 2 Sep 2017

L'Oreal drops transgender model for racist comments
Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf made history earlier this week when it was announced that she would be the face of a L'Oréal UK campaign...
Links: NZ Herald
Repromed only fertility clinic to get Rainbow Tick
For a same-sex couple having a child means entering the daunting world of fertility clinics...
Links: NZ Herald
Tagata o te Moana for 2 September 2017
Tongan's interim prime minister's ok with dissolution of Tongan parliament; Climate change, sustainable development, conservation and possibly West papua will be items on the agenda of a newly expanded Pacific Forum leaders summit line-up in Samoa next week; First Pasifika poet selected for prestigious NZ Poet Laureate award; Gay detainees fear for their lives and future if Australia close the detention centre on Manus Island; Fixing an ailing economy and a broken health system, as well as addressing corruption are among the stated priorities of Papua New Guinea's re-elected government; New Caledonia's FLNKS outlines its plan for independence...
Links: RNZ
Masculinity Is Not What It Used To Be
Links: Express

Fri 2 Sep 2016

Decades-long wait for gender surgery
The transgender community wants health officials to cut the wait time for gender reassignment operations, saying it could take decades before people get one...
Links: RNZ
GSWQT: Skycity Queenstown Karaoke!
Links: Express
Main Street Lodge Owner Pleads Guilty
Links: Express
Mika’s Multicultural Melting Pot
Links: Express
Queens of the Desert
Links: Express
50 year wait "completely unacceptable"
Green Party MP and transgender advocate, Jan Logie, says a 50 year wait for trans feminine gender reassignment surgery “is completely unacceptable”...
Links: GayNZ.com
8yr old Ugandan girl arrested for "lesbianism"
Police in Uganda have arrested an eight-year-old girl for “lesbianism”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Darkmatter poet coming to New Zealand
Alok Vaid-Menon of trans south asian performance art duo Darkmatter, is coming to New Zealand this October...
Links: GayNZ.com
GaySkiWeekQT: The inside story
If it's happening at Gay Ski Week QT Miss Ribena not only knows about it she knows who did it and with whom and why and where...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sinking the New Atlantis
Family First is trumpeting yet another anti-transgender 'research paper' from conservative Catholic Paul McHugh and an offsider, Lawrence Meyer, in an obscure religious social conservative journal called the New Atlantis...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Sep 2015

Gay Ski Week QT’s Sponsor Drinks
Links: Express
Demand sparks NZAF Health Services review
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is reviewing its health services to see how they can cope better with a doubling in the number of people getting tested over the past five years – which has not been matched by an increase in funding...
Links: GayNZ.com
Homophobic Kentucky clerk saga continues
A homophobic US county clerk is still refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, and could now face fines or jail time...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ireland's marriage law ratified by President
Ireland’s President has officially ratified the nation’s same-sex marriage law, following the historic May referendum...
Links: GayNZ.com
Miley Cyrus' new Sapphic sex song
Pop star Miley Cyrus has released a new song called Bang Me Box which she says is a "pretty self-explanatory" track about having sex with a woman...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Sep 2014

Nine Years Strong
Links: Express
Words From The Departing Mr Gay World
Links: Express
Beyer vocal on Dotcom, campaign funds
Georgina Beyer in Dunedin...
Links: GayNZ.com
Coke gains the second Rainbow Tick
Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand has achieved the standard required to be awarded the Rainbow Tick, the second company to do so...
Links: GayNZ.com
GALS have a ball in Dublin
Twenty five members of Auckland's Gay and Lesbian Singers have recently returned from Dublin where they participated in a huge queer singing festival, Various Voices...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gender neutral bathroom signs available
The business also has signs showing toilets have disabled access A new online store is selling signs to make it clear bathrooms are gender neutral and accessible for everyone, with a chunk of profits going to charity...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 2 Sep 2013

Television item (New Zealand)
Te Karere, ref: TZP436231.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Gay Ski Week is "friendlier" say Ak boarders
Ben Fuller ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Immigration apologises to gay Thai couples
Kai Kingsley Immigration NZ has apologised for the endorsement it added to the visas of two same-sex couples from Thailand who had applied to come to New Zealand to get married...
Links: GayNZ.com
Scripts sought for glbti theatre project
A new theatre development programme, providing an opportunity for glbti writers to create short theatrical works expressing unique Kiwi voices, is being launched today in Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sex Work: Return of the Prohibitionists?
Sixteenth century 'witches' who bore the brunt of moral panics...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 2 Sep 2012

Television item (New Zealand)
Marae Investigates, ref: TZP419919.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
John Key "too gay" for his electorate
John Key dancing with Buffy and Bimbo at the Big Gay Out Conservative Party leader Colin Craig has written letters to residents of John Key’s Helensville electorate saying the Prime Minister is “too gay” for the area...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Sep 2011

The Glenn Mills case, uncovered
Detective Sergeant Andy King led the case The detective who led the investigation into Glenn Mills has made a series of fresh revelations about the case they were gathering against the man who became known as an ‘HIV predator’...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Glenn Mills case, uncovered
Detective Sergeant Andy King led the case The detective who led the investigation into Glenn Mills has made a series of fresh revelations about the case they were gathering against the man who became known as an ‘HIV predator’...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Sep 2010

LILAC - the Lesbian Information, Library and Archives Centre (Wellington)
Maddy Drew and Carole Hicks talk about the history and activities of LILAC - the Lesbian Information, Library and Archives Centre.
Features: Carole Hicks, Maddy Drew
Links: PrideNZ.com
Television item (New Zealand)
Tagata Pasifika, ref: TZP390018.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Anti-gay MP caught in porn scandal
Fred Nile Conservative anti-gay New South Wales MP Fred Nile is denying he has accessed porn websites from his office...
Links: GayNZ.com
Early victory in NSW push for adoption
Clover Moore put the bill forward There's been a narrow victory for the first stage of a bill to allow same sex adoption in New South Wales...
Links: GayNZ.com
GABA hands over cheque for $18,500
The Gay Auckland Business Association has handed over a cheque for a whopping $18,500, which it raised through its 25th Jubilee and Charity Auction...
Links: GayNZ.com
NSW: Australian Christian Right vs. Adoption Reform
Predictably, the Australian Christian Right is attacking Independent NSW State MP Clover Moores' inclusive adoption reform bill...
Links: GayNZ.com
Putting the dates back in dating
DJ, broadcaster, actor and MC extraordinaire Steven Oates has gone a little bit romantic with his latest project...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trio of Tui nominations for Anika Moa
She is already nominated for a Silver Scroll, and now Anika Moa has received three New Zealand Music Awards nominations for an album she wrote about falling in love with her wife...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Sep 2009

Flirt girls to show off their tattoos
Popular Auckland women's night out Flirt is offering fun prizes to partygoers who show off their inked bodies this Saturday night...
Links: GayNZ.com
Vermont marks gay marriage with ice cream
The US State of Vermont, famous for being the birthplace of Ben ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Sep 2008

Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP356491.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Aussie push for same-sex parenting rights
Australian gay and lesbian couples could be legally obliged to pay child support and would be given access rights to their children if their relationship ends, under recommendations to be considered by the Federal Government...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay hopefuls for Big Brother-style show
Nationwide radio network The Edge's new promotion to find new friends and lock them in a webcam house for several weeks has attracted two very outgoing gay and bi contestants...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mika checks into Shortland St this week
Veteran takataapui entertainer Mika has a guest role on TV2's Shortland Street this week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Murder in the Pacific
John Scott John Scott, a fourth-generation, Fiji-born European, was the Director-General of the Red Cross...
Links: GayNZ.com
New Mr. Gay Waikato gets $500 bar tab
18-year-old Shane Pilkington only started going out to Hamilton's gay nightclub a few months ago, but now that he's 2008's Mr...
Links: GayNZ.com
Niue disowns health boss's HIV colony stance
Niue's Secretary of Government has today distanced the island nation from the recommendation of its own Director of Health that people with HIV are sinners who should be locked up in a isolated colony to keep them away from the general population...
Links: GayNZ.com
No Straight Answer: The Partial Defence of Provocation
The partial defence of provocation is still a powerful force in New Zealand's criminal law, but has come under heavy criticism for its use as an excuse for homophobia, hetero-normativism and hate crimes...
Links: GayNZ.com
Services confirmed for Paula Brettkelly
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated tomorrow in St Mary's Catholic Church, Wanganui, for the late Sister Paula Brettkelly, an early and tireless worker in the fight against the spread of HIV and the stigmatisation of people infected with the virus...
Links: GayNZ.com
Shotover Jet and Bungying today at Ski Week
Despite many of the hundreds of Gay Ski Weekers feeling a little worn out by two days' skiing Queenstown's slopes, this morning's bright sunny weather saw several dozen head off early for 'Adventure Day' activities...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Best of Takataapui TV
The next episode of Maori Television's LGBT programme Takataapui will be broadcast at 9:30pm on Monday 8 September: This final episode of Takataapui for 2008 looks back at highlights from the programmes in this year's series of twenty mini-documentaries by, for and about Takataapui New Zealanders...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 2 Sep 2007

1957 report: Homosexuality "should not be a crime"
On 4th September 2007, 50 years have passed since the United Kingdom Home Office released its ground-breaking Wolfenden Report which urged partial and restricted decriminalisation of male homosexuality...
Links: GayNZ.com
DNA profiling, homicide and hate crimes
DNA sampling is a godsend to police at a modern crime scene investigation, such as aggravated assault in the context of hate crime or homicide...
Links: GayNZ.com
Forum for Whose Families?
On October 27, Family First, the Christian Right's family values pressure group, will hold a "Forum on the Family" for other Christian Right pressure groups at the "Life Convention Centre" near Auckland Airport...
Links: GayNZ.com
National Party hubris?
National is mounting a highly unconvincing attack on the Electoral Finance Reform Bill, which has the potential to backfire badly against the Opposition...
Links: GayNZ.com
USA: Toilet sex sting senator resigns
Idaho Senator Larry Craig resigned yesterday as the aftermath of his 'lewd conduct' in an airport toilet led to concern from his fellow Republicans that the scandal would dim their election prospects...
Links: GayNZ.com
Verbal gluttony in The Real Thing
Claire Chitham in The Real Thing Review: The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard With Cameron Rhodes, Theresa Healey, Stephen Lovatt, Claire Chitham, Paul Ellis, Michelle Blundell and Brian Rankin...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 2 Sep 2006

Pollyfilla
Tonight is the last opportunity for Wellington's LGBT community to see drag and entertainment diva Pollyfilla perform before she relocates to Melbourne...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Strange Passions of Venus Monstrosa
Apart from HIV/AIDS, who would have thought that South Africa might become a paragon of human rights and pluralism only twenty years ago? Today, though, compared to the rest of Southern Africa, it is...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Sep 2005

"Gender Bending Agenda" - NZ First
Addressing a Grey Power meeting on the Kapiti Coast yesterday, Winston Peters told the group that Labour's "gender bending agenda" is far from over, and there will be nothing anyone can do to stop it...
Links: GayNZ.com
Editorial: Donate through gay-friendly Hurricane Katrina charities
The catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath is unfolding in ways that seem more grim day by day and, depite the enormous resources of the USA, international assistance is needed and will be appreciated...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fiji gay sex ban would spread HIV/AIDS
A call to criminalise homosexual sex in Fiji will endanger public health and foster the spread of HIV/AIDS, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation says...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hepatitis C and HIV co-infection - Double trouble
Hepatitis C (HepC or HCV) and HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) are two different viruses which share some common characteristics...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Sep 2004

Television item (New Zealand)
Qn, ref: TZP298729.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television programme: Takataapuhi (New Zealand)
This episode highlights Maori women involved in protest movements over the past decades. Takataapuhi, ref F82081.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
More bile from homohating Garth George
Christians don't have the courage to face the "viciousness, bile and hatred spat at them" by the "heterophobic homosexual community", says NZ Herald columnist and letters editor Garth George...
Links: GayNZ.com
When black shirts frighten us
Mobs of fundamentalist Christians militaristically marching through our streets, outfitted in black and giving scary extended arm salutes scared a lot of people...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Sep 1987

N.z.'s Widest Mix Of Right-wingers, Some Furtive... (Press, 2 September 1987)
A significant transformation in the political landscape of Christchurch, New Zealand, has been noted as various Right-wing groups and lobbyists emerge from obscurity to advocate for a conservative agenda. The 1987 General Election campaign witnessed an unprecedented level of organised campaigning by Right-wing individuals and organisations, highlighted by the circulation...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 2 Sep 1986

Young Transvestite A ‘menace To Society’ (Press, 2 September 1986)
On 2 September 1986, a 16-year-old transvestite was sentenced to 2 and a half years in a youth prison by the Auckland District Court after being convicted of multiple robberies and other offences. The youth, whose name was suppressed due to his age, had admitted to robbing four women, two...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
Top Half, ref: TZP138939.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 2 Sep 1985

Conference Gives Boost To ‘gay’ Law Reform (Press, 2 September 1985)
At the Labour Party's annual conference in Christchurch on 1 September 1985, advocates for homosexual law reform gained significant support. Delegates voted in favour of a remit calling for the repeal of all laws that prohibit consensual homosexual acts between males aged over 16. The conference urged the Government to...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Teachers Support Colleagues (Press, 2 September 1985)
On 2 September 1985, the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) in Wellington held its annual conference where secondary school teachers unanimously supported an initiative to explore the rights of homosexual and lesbian staff members. The conference resolved to form a group comprising self-identified homosexual and lesbian teachers to examine the issue...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sun 2 Sep 1984

AIDS Awareness roadshow ends with a presentation at Alfies nightclub (Auckland, New Zealand)
Bruce Burnett from the newly formed AIDS Support Network ends a one person roadshow to educate at risk communities about HIV/AIDS. The last presentation is held at Alfies in the afternoon. The roadshow lasted a month and covered Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North(?), Rotorua and Auckland.

Thu 2 Sep 1982

'one In 10 Adults Deviant’ (Press, 2 September 1982)
At the New Zealand Psychological Society's conference, Waikato University clinical student Mr David Winsborough presented findings indicating that as many as one in 10 New Zealand adults might identify as homosexual. Based on figures from 1976, this percentage suggests that approximately 150,283 New Zealanders would fall under this classification, which...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Britons Of The ’bos Still Prisoners Of Class... (Press, 2 September 1982)
Ken Coates reflects on the enduring significance of class in Britain after his return to New Zealand following a three-and-a-half-year tenure as London correspondent for "The Press." He notes that many New Zealanders thrive in Britain due to their relative freedom from class constraints, unlike the entrenched class system in...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 2 Sep 1981

Uneasy Lull In Frightened Atlanta (Press, 2 September 1981)
The trial of Wayne Williams, charged with two murders related to the Atlanta child murders case, is set to begin on October 5, 1981. Since the killings, which claimed the lives of 28 young Black individuals, came to a halt two months ago, there has been a noticeable change in...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 2 Sep 1978

Television: meeting on sexuality (New Zealand)
ref: TZP30659.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 2 Sep 1975

Homosexuals, Abortion, Jobs, Drinking Crucial... (Press, 2 September 1975)
The public meeting held on 1 September 1975 in the Sydenham electorate highlighted significant issues in the lead-up to the General Election, with a focus on homosexuality, abortion, unemployment, and the proposed lowering of the drinking age. The forum featured candidates from major political parties—Mr J. N. Kirk from Labour,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 2 Sep 1967

Supreme Court Judge Reverses Determination Of... (Press, 2 September 1967)
On 1 September 1967, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, presided over by Mr Justice Macarthur, reversed the decision of a magistrate who had vacated the convictions of two men, David Michael Smith (22) and Donald Wilson Cock (44), on homosexual charges. The magistrate, Mr H. J. Evans, had exercised...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 2 Sep 1916

Freak Legislation In Victoria. (Colonist, 2 September 1916)
On September 1, 1916, in Melbourne, Dr. Creed introduced a bill in the Legislative Council aimed at allowing women to adopt male attire and male Christian names. The primary objective of this legislation is to enable women to pursue male-dominated professions without facing restrictions due to their traditional female clothing....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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