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Tue 5 Sep 2023

  • Full Disclosure: Why Campbell Johnstone came out as the first gay All Black
    Campbell Johnstone used to think being gay would get in the way of his dream of being an All Black...
    Links: Stuff
  • Transgender patients turn to internet to buy hormones, say they lack health system support
    Some transgender patients are turning to the internet to buy gender-affirming hormones, saying they are not getting the support they believe they need from the health system...
    Links: RNZ
  • Exclusive: Marama Davidson Has Communities at Heart
    Links: Express

Mon 5 Sep 2022

  • Taranaki sport facilities ready for gender inclusion, as club policy plays catch up across NZ
    Advocate says ensuring safe spaces for transgender players is an important part of enabling participation...
    Links: Stuff
  • Abbi Jacobson In A League Of Her Own
    Links: Express
  • Abbi Jacobson: A League Of Her Own
    Links: Express
  • NZ Queer History: That Day In September
    Links: Express

Sun 5 Sep 2021

  • WATCH: The Real Moment The Queens Find Out Who Won!
    Links: Express
  • WATCH: The Real Moment The Queens Find Out Won!
    Links: Express

Thu 5 Sep 2019

  • Peter Ellis Dies While Appealing Conviction
    Links: Express
  • Religious Freedom Bill Put Forward By Government In Australia
    Links: Express

Wed 5 Sep 2018

  • Transgender teenager ready to take the next step in his transition
    After a lifetime spent in and out of hospital Angus Coleman has found himself once again preparing for surgery – but this time it's on his terms...
    Links: Stuff
  • Review: Pink at her Peak
    Links: Express

Tue 5 Sep 2017

  • Australia's top court hears bid to stop gay marriage survey
    MELBOURNE, Australia " Gay rights advocates argued in Australia's highest court on Tuesday that the government does not have the power to bypass Parliament to pay for a 122 million Australian dollar ($97 million) public survey...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • L’oréal Fires Trans Model For Slamming White Supremacy
    Links: Express
  • Same Sex Marriage Still Illegal in Isreal
    Links: Express

Mon 5 Sep 2016

  • Canterbury University Celebrates Sexuality Awareness
    Links: Express
  • Happy 5th Birthday Q Theatre!
    Links: Express
  • Pocket Politics: Bill Ralston
    Links: Express
  • Pro-GLBT Cabinet Minister Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
    Links: Express
  • Supporting Queer Asian Culture
    Links: Express
  • Ara Taiohi Submission to the Homelessness Inquiry
    Submission to the Homelessness Inquiry, September 5, 2016 Kassie Hartendorp, Anya Satyanand and Sandra Dickson Anya Satyanand, Executive Officer of Ara Taiohi Ma te rongo ka mohio 
 Ma te mohio ka marama
 Ma te marama ka matau 
 Ma te matau ka ora Tihei mauriora...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Arrest for planning mass shooting in Barcelona
    Spanish Police have arrested a man in Barcelona who was trying to plan a mass shooting of gay people...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay MP Kevin Hague to leave Parliament
    One of the country's longest-serving openly gay MPs, Kevin Hague, is to quit politics to head an environmental agency...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay-supportive MP Nikki Kaye has breast cancer
    Three-term Auckland Central MP and advocate for glbti equality Nikki Kaye has today temporarily stepped down from her ministerial portfolios after being diagnosed with breast cancer...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • LGBTI homelessness issues highlighted in WLG
    The Homelessness Inquiry Cross-Party panel has this morning heard a submission highlighting the issues faced by LGBTI homeless people and in particular, youth...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • PrEP in New Zealand: Update
    What is the current status of post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in New Zealand? In July 2016, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation stated that it was working alongside Auckland Sexual Health Services, Body Positive and the University of Auckland School of Population Health on an New Zealand-based PrEP pilot clinical study...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Schools network supports diversity groups
    School students and staff around the country are signing up to a Schools Network resourcing programme, giving them access to support and resources related to queer-straight alliances...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The Wheels on the Bus
    Family First is trying something 'different' this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 5 Sep 2015

  • Double scullers nail spot at Rio Olympics
    New Zealand double scullers Robbie Manson and Chris Harris have secured a spot at the Rio Olympics after making the final of the world rowing championships in France...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GaySkiWeekQT: Day 7and8: Farewell party time
    Saturday, 11pm: Gay and dance floor anthems are pumping at Queenstown's Memorial Hall centre where hundreds of costumed party-goers are marking the end of Gay Ski Week QT at the Once Upon A Time party...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ Falcons soar to Purchas Cup glory
    The New Zealand Falcons have claimed trans-Tasman gay rugby championship the Purchas Cup in a hard-fought tournament in Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Updated: Skies clear for Purchas Cup
    Scattered showers forecast for central Auckland this morning are a no show, and the rain is set to stay away for the Purchas Cup...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 5 Sep 2014

  • Milford Sounds: A Must Do Destination!
    Links: Express
  • Outgames is Officially Coming To Auckland
    Links: Express
  • Outgames Licence Signing Ceremony – Auckland Town Hall
    Links: Express
  • Comedian Joan Rivers dies, aged 81
    Witting, biting, irreverent, hilarious, sometimes insulting yet widely adored...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hague to discuss schools report in Wgtn
    Green MP Kevin Hague will be at Rainbow Wellington drinks tonight where he will discuss a report on the safety of lgbti students in New Zealand schools...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Having a blast at Gay Ski Week
    The atmosphere is pure ‘amped’ at Gay Ski Week, where people from all over the world are having a blast...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Joan Rivers roast
    Comedian Joan Rivers has died in New York, aged 81, after complications from surgery...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rivers was "humble" and "gracious"
    Joan Rivers is being remembered by gay fans, including one who once spent the night with drinking with her in an Edinburgh bar...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 5 Sep 2013

  • GSW Winter Wedding delayed for new couple
    A last minute change of plans will see the Winter Wedding prize for Gay Ski Week delayed by almost a week so a replacement gay couple can be married in Queenstown...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Queensland election leaflet "fear-mongering"
    A Queensland pre-election leaflet claiming that supporting marriage equality, as advocated by some candidates, will lead to same-sex education has been condemned by Australian marriage equality advocates...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: Destiny, The life and times of...
    Destiny: The life and times of a self-made Apostle Peter Lineham Penguin books From a gay perspective there's something innately troubling about Brian Tamaki and his Destiny Church - and Peter Lineham's newly-released book Destiny, The life and times of a self-made Apostle, though excellent, doesn't really addess it...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Russian flashmobs show glbti solidarity
    Flashmobs by heterosexuals have convened around Russia to show solidarity with increasingly persecuted glbti people in that country...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tamaki's 'gay friends' fail to come forward
    Brian Tamaki None of the many gay friends Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki claims have come forward despite the church passing on a request for a private or confidential interview...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 5 Sep 2012

  • Anne Perry (Wellington)
    Joanne Drayton discusses her biography of crime writer Anne Perry, better known in New Zealand as the convicted murderer Juliet Hulme
    Features: Joanne Drayton
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • "An offensive gospel"
    The billboard at the centre of the controversy Reverend Clay Nelson from Auckland’s St-Matthew-in-the-City “has a bit of a rant” in response to critics of the Hobson St church’s latest billboard, which features a lesbian wedding cake topper and says “we don’t care who is on top”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • "An offensive gospel"
    The billboard at the centre of the controversy Reverend Clay Nelson from Auckland’s St-Matthew-in-the-City “has a bit of a rant” in response to critics of the Hobson St church’s latest billboard, which features a lesbian wedding cake topper and says “we don’t care who is on top”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • "Gay cure" GP's ban a victory, victim says
    Craig Hoyle, 23, at May's launch of GLBTI community awareness campaign WTF Gay Auckland man Craig Hoyle says the ban handed to a doctor who prescribed him a “gay cure” is both a personal victory and a win for others who have been similarly mistreated...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • "It's only the beginning"
      Colonial Tech Pictures have put together a short video to show the journey the NZ Marriage Equality Bill has undertaken so far...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • "It's only the beginning"
      Colonial Tech Pictures have put together a short video to show the journey the NZ Marriage Equality Bill has undertaken so far...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Family First URL continues to be redirected
    The site which pops up when www...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Forced marriage claims judged "a non-event"
    File photo A human rights lawyer says claims that a change to the marriage law would force clergy to perform marriages between gay and lesbian couples are “a legal fog”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay Ski Week to return to Queenstown in 2013
    Sally and Mandy Whitewoods at the Gay Ski Week closing party Planning is already underway for the 2013 Gay Ski Week after what organisers say was a “dazzling” re-entrance of the Queenstown event...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GP banned for prescribing NZ teen "gay cure"
    File photo A Sydney-based Exclusive Brethren doctor has been banned from medicine after prescribing chemical castration for a young gay New Zealander...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 5 Sep 2011

  • Lesbian candidate ranked 63rd on National list
    Prime Minister John Key with Claudette Hauiti Lesbian National Party candidate Claudette Hauiti has been given only an outside chance of winning a Parliamentary seat after being ranked 63rd on the party list...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 5 Sep 2010

  • Gossip's Beth Ditto planning a family
    Beth Ditto Beth Ditto has revealed she wants to start a family with her new girlfriend and will take the first step of seeking medical advice within the next year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Leuii fashions victory with I Heart Tapa Ware
    Gay Auckland designer, make-up artist and DJ extraordinaire James Leuii has found the winning stich once again – he's taken out the Style Pasifika Hero section with a garment called I Heart Tapa Ware...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Staring disaster in the face
    When he started his Menfriends shift at midnight Friday Matt Wright could have no idea that he would have to see the venue and its gay patrons through the biggest natural disaster to ever hit Christchurch...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 5 Sep 2009

  • Meet Rye Drummond - Mr. Gay Waikato 2009
    23-year-old Rye's costumes, charisma and energetic dancing won the audience over at Hamilton's Shine nightclub - he's the deserving winner of the Mr...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Topps movie wins Qantas Film award
    10...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tyra pays for model's gender operation
    TV beauty show America's Next Top Model's first ever transgender contestant Isis King was eliminated in the episode screened yesterday on TV3, but the hit show's host Tyra Banks says she'll make sure there's a happy ending for her after all...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 5 Sep 2008

  • "Let gays marry" says Sir Cliff Richard
    Decades of speculation on Sir Cliff Richard's sexuality have annoyed the seasoned singing star, but now the devoted Christian has spoken out in support of gay marriages in his new book...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Girls kissing record set, says radio station
    The Edge radio network says it has set a new world record for the numbers of girls kissing girls simultaneously, but the stunt has drawn ire from gays and right-wing groups alike...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • White Out Party farewells Ski Week tonight
    More snow was dumped on Queenstown's peaks yesterday as Gay Ski Week continues – with its climax, the annual White Out Party, happening at Bezu Bar tonight...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 5 Sep 2007

  • Banks denies voicing anti-gay rhetoric
    Despite documented evidence to the contrary, Auckland Mayoral hopeful and long-time homophobe John Banks tonight outright denied using anti-gay rhetoric in the years since his last attempt to court the votes of gay and lesbian Aucklanders...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cuba St killer ran tax scam from prison
    A man serving a life sentence for the homophobic murder of Wellington schoolboy Jeff Whittington has admitted committing fraud while in Rimutaka Prison...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Ellen quizzes Hillary on gay marriage
    "I am gay," talk show host Ellen DeGeneres revealed to US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a live TV interview last night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mayoral Forum aired predictable positions
    The presumed artistic and cultural leanings of gays, diversity, reigning in rates and the spectre of council exposure to leaky home claims were the main topics aired at tonight's GABA Mayoral Forum...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • OUTLine logo will ring in the changes
    Auckland's 35-year-old LGBT community counselling and information telephone service 'Gayline/Lesbianline' will soon be renamed ‘OUTLine NZ', and General Manager Neil Denney says their competition to design a new logo for the revamp is progressing well...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Qantas attendant 'gave number to 15yo boy'
    A Qantas flight attendant has been stood down over claims he offered a 15-year-old Porirua boy his number and asked him to chat online...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rainbow Labour's tea with AKL City Vision
    The NZ Labour party's four gay/lesbian MP's will meet in Ponsonby this Sunday for an afternoon tea with Central Auckland's 'City Vision' council candidates, and all are invited to attend...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • United Future - All Gas and Goethe?
    United Future's leader Peter Dunne At the weekend, Peter Dunne and his newly relogoed United Future party held their annual conference...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Waikato manager resigns from NZAF
    NZ AIDS Foundation services in the Waikato will not be adversely affected by the resignation of its Regional Manager for the Waikato region, Tim Allingham, according the Foundation...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 5 Sep 2006

  • Call for stallholders for Big Gay Out 07
    Stallholders for 2007's Big Gay Out celebration in Auckland, which attracts over 10,000 people, are now being invited to book their space...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Victoria University's Alison Laurie
    Linda Evans (Left), Alison Laurie (Right) Wellingtonian Alison Laurie has pushed for LGBT rights and freedoms in NZ, Denmark, Norway and the US; she was a key proponent of homosexual law reform and now teaches gender and women’s studies at Victoria University...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 5 Sep 2005

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    The Outhouse, ref: TZP311417.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    The Big Experiment, ref: TZP309667.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Leaders debate gets ugly
    Prime Minister Helen Clark has accused the National Party of bringing "a mob of hooligans" as their audience supporters at the last TVNZ leaders debate, claiming they shouted "personal abuse, ‘no-kids lesbo', ‘scrubber', ‘liar'"...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • TV2's Late Night Gay Monday Starts Tonight
    Local talkshow The Outhouse and provocative US lesbisoap The L Word start tonight (Mon) on TV2...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 5 Sep 2003

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP277704.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news reports: HIV positive refugees in NZ and former newsreader Darren McDonald is sentenced (New Zealand)
    Two reports: HIV positive refugees in New Zealand, and former newsreader Darren McDonald is sentenced on drugs charges. One news, ref F59892.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • National Penis Day - taking the joke over the edge?
    It starts, like most things, with the best of intentions...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 5 Sep 2002

  • New Zealand AIDS Foundation launches the "Toolbox" safe sex campaign. (New Zealand)
    The toolbox contains condoms, lubricants and application hints, and was distributed to people on the street.
    Links: Gay NZ
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Qn, ref: TZP262274.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One Late Edition, ref: TZP262026.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 5 Sep 2000

Thu 5 Sep 1985

  • ‘a.i.d.s. Should Not Stop School’ (Press, 5 September 1985)
    On 5 September 1985, the United States Federal health authorities stated that most children with A.I.D.S. (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) should be allowed to attend school, emphasizing the need to protect their confidentiality. This guidance from the National Centre for Disease Control (CDC) comes amid increasing controversy regarding the rights...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Laws Ineffective’ (Press, 5 September 1985)
    On 5 September 1985, the A.I.D.S. Foundation presented evidence to a Parliamentary select committee in New Zealand, highlighting a troubling trend among some homosexual and bisexual men. The Foundation reported that these individuals often preferred to risk contracting A.I.D.S. rather than disclose their sexual orientation due to the existing laws...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 5 Sep 1979

  • Television: Toss Woollaston painting presented to Wellington City (Wellington, New Zealand)
    ref: TZP24735.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Thu 5 Sep 1968

  • Homosexuality In S.a. (Press, 5 September 1968)
    On 5 September 1968, a report released by a Parliamentary committee in South Africa, which investigated homosexuality, revealed that the practice was more widespread than previously acknowledged across various societal levels. Major F. A. J. van Zyl, a senior police official, reported to the committee that a police raid in...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Carmen Rupe officially changes her name by deed poll (Wellington, New Zealand)
    Carmen changes her name from Trevor Tione Rupe to Carmen Tione Rupe
    Links: Archives NZ

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