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Wed 25 Oct 2023

  • Home And Away: Angelina Thomson's pride at representing Polynesian community
    Actor Angelina Thomson says it means so much to her to be a Polynesian woman on an Australian soap as there were few Pacific Islanders on screen when she was growing up...
    Links: Stuff
  • Dozens Arrested in Nigeria Amidst Anti-LGBTQ+ “Witch-Hunt”
    Links: Express

Tue 25 Oct 2022

  • Restoring the status of former disgraced Whanganui mayor
    Charles McKay was mayor of Whanganui from 1906 to 1920...
    Links: RNZ
  • Students report sexual assaults at Chch schools
    A new survey of students at the co-located Shirley Boys' and Avonside Girls' schools show many are being sexually harassed and assaulted...
    Links: RNZ
  • Casting Opens For Drag Race Down Under 3
    Links: Express
  • Qatar Facing Increased Criticism For Anti-LGBTQ+ Practices Ahead Of FIFA World...
    Links: Express
  • Will and Grace Star and LGBTQ+ Icon Leslie Jordan Dies Age...
    Links: Express

Mon 25 Oct 2021

  • 'Mum, I think I'm trans': Let's be TRANSparent podcast a resource for parents, whānau
    First Person - RNZ's new podcast Let's be TRANSparent is all about demystifying the gender transition process...
    Links: RNZ
  • Episode 1: Hey Mum, I think I’m Trans
    Buckle up for Ep #1...
    Links: RNZ
  • Intersex children in New Zealand are routinely undergoing unnecessary surgery – that needs to change
    OPINION: By Claire Breen and Katrina Roen for The Conversation Until very recently, people with intersex variations have often been unseen, stigmatised and routinely discriminated against...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Lee Suckling: Why lockdown won't stop my Halloween celebrations
    OPINION: Halloween is gay Christmas...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Jamie Lee Curtis Talks Daughter’s Transition
    Links: Express
  • New Zealand Removes Barrier For HIV Positive Immigrants
    Links: Express

Sun 25 Oct 2020

  • Dateline Pacific for 26 October 2020
    Pacific community leaders' aspirations for the NZ government; Pacific people look to maintain new work life balance after Covid;New Zealand Labour MP calls for homosexual law reform in the Cook Islands; Research funding to help focus on vulnerable Pacific communities...
    Links: RNZ

Fri 25 Oct 2019

  • Gold Medal Olympian Kerron Clement Opens Up About His Sexuality
    Links: Express

Thu 25 Oct 2018

  • Five Reasons to Hit Honolulu
    Links: Express
  • Married at First Sight’s Samuel Levi
    Links: Express
  • Netflix Releases Trailer for New Animated Drag Queen Series: Super Drags
    Links: Express

Tue 25 Oct 2016

  • Long Weekend Vibes at Family
    Links: Express
  • NZAF to Honour New Life Members
    Links: Express
  • Soaring Times at Eagle
    Links: Express
  • Beyer's kidney offer came from a gay man
    A gay Wairarapa man who offered the ailing Georgina Beyer one of his kidneys as a birthday present made what Beyer calls an “incredibly generous” offer which left her in tears of gratitude, but it's an offer she can now only hope she can use...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Russian Embassy tweets offensive cartoon
    The Russian Embassy in the UK has posted a cartoon image on its Twitter account that depicts Europeans and gay piggy banks...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Singer Burns was in civil union with male partner
    Pete Burns and Michael Simpson on their Civil Union day...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Tantrums in America
    As the third US presidential candidates debate took place, some commentators fretted about the toxic US presidential landscape that Donald Trump has left in his vitriolic populist, conspiracy wake...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The struggle continues for Georgina Beyer
    Just when the future began to look promising for Georgina Beyer, as she languished year after year on dialysis hoping for a kidney transplant, her hopes were dashed...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Young trans guy crowned new Mr Gay Wellington
    The new Mr Gay Wellington has been crowned and is believed to be the first trans person to win a Mr Gay title in the country...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Oct 2015

  • Academy Cinema Playing Gayby Baby in November
    Links: Express
  • Body Positive Organise “Mini Pride” to Mark World AIDS Day
    Links: Express
  • Russian MPs Want Jail Terms For Gays Who Come Out
    Links: Express
  • The Gays in Shorts!
    Links: Express
  • 100 lashes for gay sex in Aceh, Indonesia
    LGBT people who are caught having sex in Indonesia’s Aceh province will now receive 100 lashes as punishment...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Demands for trans depathologisation
    International Stop Trans Pathologisation Day took place yesterday with over 100 actions for trans depathologization taking place in over 45 cities around the world...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • ITANZ supports Intersex Awareness Day Twitterstorm
    Intersex Awareness Day is tomorrow and you can do your bit to show your solidarity here in New Zealand...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • LGBTQ Film nights are back at Academy
    The Monthly LGBTQ film night at Academy Cinemas in Auckland is back with the new Julianne Moore and Ellen Page film Freeheld kicking things off next week...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The lost $20,000 Outgames legacy
    You can read yesterday's precursor to this feature, Inside the Ak Outgames fiasco, here...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2014

  • Australian Labor Leader Makes Strong Stand for GLBT Equality at Australian...
    Links: Express
  • Breaking Free – Eagle Bar
    Links: Express
  • Opening Party – Shanghai Lil’s
    Links: Express
  • Party Rocking – Family Bar and Club
    Links: Express
  • Snort – Basement Theatre
    Links: Express
  • Mika to MC 'Big Splash' GABA auction
    Mika will host the annual fundraiser The annual GABA fundraising auction will embrace its move to the waterfront Hilton with a ‘Big Splash’ theme, and Mika as the Master of Ceremonies...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Oct 2013

  • Gay Wedding Show to be a New Zealand first
    Same-sex couples planning to get hitched are being promised a massive range of friendly exhibitors at the first-ever Gay Wedding Show...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New health report a 'landmark' document
    Kevin Hague at the report's launch Green MP Kevin Hague says the first ever report into the health of GLBTI New Zealanders is a ‘landmark’ document...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Under-pressure Mayor misses report launch
    Len Brown at last year's Auckland Pride Parade Auckland's embattled mayor was a no-show at the launch of a report into the state of healthcare for GLBTI New Zealanders last night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Your Labour Weekend guide
    All Weekend Love Life Fono 5 @ Waipapa Marae, Auckland The fifth Love Life Fono will bring Pacific GLBTI and MVPFAFF people together at Auckland University’s Waipapa Marae for a weekend of bonding and talking safe sex...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Oct 2012

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    20/20, ref: TZP424129.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Auckland apartments eyed for retirement plan
    Auckland is full of apartment buildings A plan is being hatched to set up a gay men’s retirement community in an apartment building in Auckland, complete with a care worker or “houseboy” living in the complex and shared facilities such as a swimming pool and garden...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Flood of submissions revealed, as deadline looms
    Louisa Wall More than 4,500 submissions have been made on the marriage equality bill through the marriage equality website alone, as the clock ticks down towards tomorrow afternoon’s deadline...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • France: Women shock protestors with kiss
    Taken by AFP photographer Gérard Julien A picture of two women kissing in front of an anti-marriage equality protest in France is being shared across the globe...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Preacher's gay rights speech
    A video of a preacher giving a speech on gay rights to a city council meeting in the US has gone viral thanks to his subversive take on the issue...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Preacher's gay rights speech
    A video of a preacher giving a speech on gay rights to a city council meeting in the US has gone viral thanks to his subversive take on the issue...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Oct 2011

  • Scotland: gay man burnt alive in horrific killing
    Victim of an horrific murder, Stuart Walker A Scottish community is an utter state of shock after the atrocious killing of a gay barman, who is believed to have been tied to a lamppost and beaten before being set alight...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Social trends undermining HIV awareness progress
    Nathan Lachowsky In an ironic and dangerous twist of fate improvements in HIV awareness and education brought about by advances such as Homosexual Law Reform appear to have been considerably negated by subsequent social changes and improved treatments...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Oct 2010

  • Body Positive launching new evening group
    Body Positive is launching a new weekly evening group for people living with HIV or AIDS, particularly for people who work during the day...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Paper rejects gay couple's marriage notice
    A New Hampshire newspaper is refusing to print gay wedding announcements, despite the fact same-sex marriage is legal in the US state...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Oct 2009

  • "Most powerful NZ lesbian" and partner unite
    The powerful and influential Chief of Staff to then-Prime Minister Helen Clark and the most powerful lesbian in the country at the time yesterday joined with her partner in a civil union ceremony in Wellington...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay school fraudster jailed for a year
    The gay former principal of Huntly West Primary School has been jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to fraud and theft...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2008

  • "Help! My boyfriend's doing drag!"
    'Frocking up' started as a giggle for Trevor's man, but now it's happening every weekend...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Eight nominees seek NZAF Board positions
    Eight people have put themselves forward for election to two vacancies on the trust board of the NZ AIDS Foundation, in stark contrast to last year when only two people were up for election to two vacancies...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Red carpet will roll for sell-out Chch Oscars
    Tomorrow night's 26th annual Christchurch Oscars LGBT community awards has now sold out, with organiser Miss Mole excited to once again roll out the red carpet for all her celebrity guests...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rural areas risky for gays, says Beyer
    Transgender former MP and Mayor of Carterton Georgina Beyer says the Wairarapa is conservative and – like many rural provincial areas – "are not entirely safe places for out gay people...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Oct 2007

  • "Homosexual" baby poster divides Italians
    Posters of a rosy, puffy cheeked newborn baby have provoked controversy in Italy because the infant is shown wearing a wristband name-tag with the word "homosexual" written on it...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Exclusive Brethren: "Above the Law?"
    In Australia, the Melbourne Age has disclosed further new evidence about the interference of the Exclusive Brethren during the last Australian federal election in 2004...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay commentator slams UK's "fascist fags"
    Outspoken NZ political commentator Lindsay Perigo has voiced his "despair" over news that the British government is proposing a law to ban homophobic speech...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Oprah presents: 'Gay around the world'
    In the wake of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments last month about the non-existence of gays in his country, US talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey has decided to highlight stories from the gay community around the globe on an episode of her show...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Waipouri murder trial begins late November
    Two young Palmerston North men will stand trial in front of a jury in November for the murder of gay man Stanley Waipouri late last year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Oct 2006

  • Nunsploitation!
    ‘Nunsploitation' was a product of the sixties...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Oct 2005

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Te Karere, ref: TZP313872.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Breakfast, ref: TZP311761.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP311901.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news reports: HIV/AIDS is high on the agenda at the Pacific Forum (New Zealand)
    One news, ref F89556 and TV3 news, ref F89558.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision (1)
  • HIV/AIDS Conference: "Wall of silence" helping spread HIV in Pacific
    With a thinly-veiled call for Pacific nations to address issues of prejudice and intolerance, the head of the United Nations AIDS initiative in the Pacific Region today helped launch the first Pan-Pacific HIV/AIDS conference...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Oct 2004

  • HIV educator and activist Matt Whyte dies (New Zealand)
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • All go at Vinegar Hill
    Damage from the floods that devastated the popular gay campsite Vinegar Hill in the Manawatu district earlier this year has been mostly repaired in time for this year's festivities...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2003

  • Destiny NZ launches this weekend
    Destiny NZ, a new political party that undoubtedly poses one of the greatest threats to the freedoms and human rights of the LGBT population in New Zealand, launches the first stages of its policies at a public Auckland conference today...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Destruction predicted for Presbyterians
    Auckland minister Stuart Lange says that the Presbyterian Church could be headed for destruction, now that a judicial committee has allowed gays and lesbians to apply to the ministry...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Peter Brown's homophobic logic
    We ask NZ First deputy leader Peter Brown to elaborate on his recent attack on gay chief censor Bill Hastings, and take a look at who might be backing him up...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Oct 2002

  • Carmen inspired composition debuts in WTG and AKL
    Wellington Drag Diva Carmen is the inspiration for a new Jack Body work, Carmen Dances, performed by the NZSO in Wellington tonight and at the Auckland Town Hall next Friday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Oct 2001

Fri 25 Oct 1991

  • Television news report: accident victim was HIV positive - or was he (New Zealand)
    Interviewees include Brian Persen, Peter Bradley, Phil Wright and Warren Lindberg. Holmes, ref F107530.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 25 Oct 1983

  • Gays Seek Rights (Press, 25 October 1983)
    On 25 October 1983, homosexual lobbyists in Wellington announced their intention to exert pressure on candidates for the upcoming General Election in a bid to secure greater legal protections under human rights legislation and to advocate for the decriminalisation of male homosexuality. This declaration followed the annual meeting of the...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
  • Texas Wants To Deport Gay Millionaire (Press, 25 October 1983)
    Richard John Longstaff, a 44-year-old Englishman who runs two clothing stores in Texas, has been denied United States citizenship due to his homosexuality and is now facing deportation to the United Kingdom. Longstaff has lived in the US since 1965, but his legal troubles began in 1976 when he applied...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 25 Oct 1969

  • A Sick Hospital (Press, 25 October 1969)
    "Listen to the Silence" by David W. Elliott Macdonald tells the story of Timmy, a 14-year-old boy who, after a turbulent childhood spent in various foster homes, is deemed severely disturbed and sent to a psychiatric hospital in America. The narrative centres around Timmy's experiences in a facility populated by...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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