On This Day: 11th November

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Sat 11 Nov 2023

Review: Sam Smith brings Auckland to their knees with rousing, rebellious show
Sam Smith brings a little Berghain to Auckland with a big-hearted, gay as hell ball...
Links: Stuff
Review: Sam Smith brings Auckland to their knees with rousing, rebellious show
Sam Smith brings a little Berghain to Auckland with a big-hearted, gay as hell ball...
Links: Stuff
Sam Smith brings Auckland to their knees with rousing, rebellious show
REVIEW: Sam Smith brings a little Berghain to Auckland with a big-hearted, gay as hell ball...
Links: Stuff
Teen who beat gay man Stanley Waipouri to death released from prison
A man who was 19 years old when he and a friend beat a gay man to death in his home has been released from jail after spending 15 years behind bars...
Links: RNZ

Fri 11 Nov 2022

The Panel with Julia Hartley Moore and Max Harris (Part 2)
Today on the second half of The Panel, Wallace and panellists Julia Hartley Moore and Max Harris discuss the reasons for low voter turnout, a small community's fight against homophobia and a street light that wound up in the centre of a road in a Christchurch community...
Links: RNZ
The Countdown Is On! Charli XCX, Kelly Rowland and Jessica Mauboy...
Links: Express

Thu 11 Nov 2021

Out Here: an anthology of Takataapui and LGBTQIA+ writers is published (New Zealand)
Links: Auckland University Press
50 Years of An Icon: All-New Range Rover on Its Way...
Links: Express
Exclusive: RuPaul Returning To Auckland For Down Under Season 2
Links: Express

Wed 11 Nov 2020

US election: White, Trump-friendly politician roasted for 'accidental' tweet claiming to be 'black gay guy'
An American politician has become the butt of jokes online following an awkward Twitter snafu...
Links: NZ Herald
Out and About | Rainbow Celebration Gala 2020
Links: Express
Out and About | URGE’S Birthday Blow Out
Links: Express

Mon 11 Nov 2019

COMMUNITIES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE | WORLD AIDS DAY
Links: Express
HIV Experts Urge Uganda to Decriminalise Homosexuality
Links: Express
When LGBTQ Meets ‘P’
Links: Express

Sun 11 Nov 2018

Community Members Call for Festival Boycott over Auckland Pride’s Police Uniform...
Links: Express

Sat 11 Nov 2017

Auckland Forum to Address Violence Against LGBT+
Links: Express
Review: Bjork – All is Full of love by Blackbird Ensemble
Links: Express

Fri 11 Nov 2016

Galathea: Into the Bush (2016) (Wellington)
Hilary Penwarden talks to Ania Upstill about producing queer theatre and the production Galathea: Into the Bush
Features: Ania Upstill, Hilary Penwarden
Links: PrideNZ.com
Is it Really Health For All?
Links: Express
November: Ask Agony Uncle Eli
Links: Express
Anti-glbti abuse increasing after Trump victory
The Los Angeles anti-gay attack victim Homophobic and racist abuse and violence appear to be increasing across the USA in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election victory...
Links: GayNZ.com
Celsius 179?
As I predicted, the euthanasia debate is fast overtaking LGBTI concerns as the other pole of Christian Right activism when it comes to their equally vehement opposition to abortion...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hard-pressed AIDS Foundation owes $500,000
The NZ AIDS Foundation has had to borrow $500,000 to help fund the services it provides, and without an increase in Ministry of Health funding it is facing unspecified operational cuts to stem the flow of red ink...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hudson and Halls opens this week in Wellington
The magic of Hudson and Halls is coming to Wellington this coming week, with live Christmas special taking to the stage...
Links: GayNZ.com
NPIP: Corrections not fulfilling their Pride promise
No Pride in Prisons say without the implementation of a plan to protect transgender prisoners -which was agreed upon before Pride 2016 - Corrections should not be marching in the parade next year...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 11 Nov 2015

Auckland’s New Gay Bar Preparing to Open
Links: Express
Lesbian Couple Face Six Years In Jail For Marrying in Costa...
Links: Express
Passion Pit Frontman Michael Angelakos Comes Out
Links: Express
"Blatant homophobia" on Qantas flight
Qantas have been accused of “blatant homophobia” after they asked a lesbian couple to separate during a flight in order for an elderly married couple to sit together...
Links: GayNZ.com
Coming out on YouTube
Kapiti College student CJ Puna recently won the top prize at the Wellington Pride Awards for her YouTube channel which gives others an insight into her life as a transgender teenager...
Links: GayNZ.com
Subcultures and Cultural "Equality"
What are 'subcultures' and what role do they play in contemporary LGBT politics, communities and self-perceptions? Let's examine these in turn...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ukraine votes against LGBTI rights
The Ukraine Parliament has voted against a LGBTI rights law, ruining it’s chances of joining the Schengen Zone...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 11 Nov 2014

Brides Legally Marry in Russia Despite Ban on Same Sex Marriage
Links: Express
The Funniest Man in NZ!
Links: Express
Transgender Day of Remembrance Service to be Held in Auckland Next...
Links: Express
Uganda Introduces New Anti GLBT Legislation
Links: Express
#NXT14 team shortlisted for major award
The organisers of the ‪#‎NXT14 LGBTIQ Youth Leadership Conference have been nominated for a prestigious public affairs award...
Links: GayNZ.com
Badminton tournament a smash
The organisers of the Trans-Tasman Badminton Tournament just held in Auckland say it was a fun event, and have details on how you can get involved in their regular game days: Wow, what a fun event! Last weekend 58 players took part in the second Trans Tasman event (last year was Melbourne, next year Sydney) with 36 locals, 12 from Melbourne and 10 from Sydney...
Links: GayNZ.com
Big Bear Weekend Guide
Christchurch’s Big Bear Weekend starts on Thursday! And yes, it’s going to be awesome...
Links: GayNZ.com
GALS marking 22 years with A Night Out
GALS' upcoming 22nd anniversary concert A Night Out will include everything from Petula Clark to Pharrell Williams and The Nutcracker...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sympathy for Cook from ex Parade Director
Jonathan Smith directed the 2013 Auckland Pride Parade The former Director of the Auckland Pride Parade has expressed sympathy for outgoing Pride Festival Director Julian Cook, saying he bowed out in similar circumstances...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 11 Nov 2013

Adrian - Beyond Rainbows (Wellington)
Adrian talks about pan-sexuality and gender identity.
Links: PrideNZ.com
Action "urgently" needed on CWealth abuses
Rainbow Wellington is urging New Zealand leaders, and those from across the Commonwealth, to take action to stop widespread human rights abuses against glbti people...
Links: GayNZ.com
Commonwealth 'ignoring' glbti rights abuses
File photo A global glbti rights group is highlighting the fact that homosexuality is still illegal in 41 of the 53 Commonwealth states ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka this week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Green MP Jan Logie detained in Sri Lanka
Jan Logie is on her way back to New Zealand after being detained by Sri Lankan authorities and questioned about her visa...
Links: GayNZ.com
Homophobe Tamihere off air for rest of 2013
John Tamihere Acidic homophobe John Tamihere and his offsider Willie Jackson will be off the air for the rest of 2013...
Links: GayNZ.com
Honouring Georgie
Beyer at the Carmen taonga handover at Te Papa this month A veritable ‘this is your life’ for Georgina Beyer this week will be full of tributes, glamorous shows and stories, which organisers say will also raise cash to help make the former MP’s life a little easier as she has dialysis four times a day...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 11 Nov 2012

NZ Writing: 3 by Jern Siong
3 by Jern Siong Three words – that was all it took...
Links: GayNZ.com
PM blames media for "gay red top" fallout
The Prime Minister is blaming the media for the furore over his "gay red shirt" and "thick as batshit" comments...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 11 Nov 2011

Cabaret Askew full of twists and turns
If you need a little more laughter in your life, and you like your laughter accompanied with a bit of skin, you may well want to check out Cabaret Askew...
Links: GayNZ.com
GABA sets new record with Gold auction
A print of Soldiers Off Set was the biggest-selling item The Gay Auckland Business Association has raised a record amount of more than $30,000 with its GABA Gold Charity Auction, where everything from limited edition art to a topless wheel alignment went under the hammer...
Links: GayNZ.com
HRC releases trans resource for schools
A new resource on transgender students in schools has been released by the Human Rights Commission...
Links: GayNZ.com
Liddicoat to discuss human rights and internet
Joy Liddicoat Former Human Rights Commissioner Joy Liddicoat will address Rainbow Wellington on human rights and the internet next week...
Links: GayNZ.com
Oscars producer and star resign over anti-gay slur
Murphy and Ratner An anti-gay slur has led to the resignation of the producer and the presenter of next year's Academy Awards show...
Links: GayNZ.com
Uganda: Kato's killer jailed for 30 years
David Kato was murdered in his home The man who murdered Ugandan gay rights advocate David Kato has been jailed for 30 years...
Links: GayNZ.com
Virtuous Circles?
Labour and the Greens probably have the inside running for most New Zealand LGBT votes, and for good reason- beyond the obvious reasons...
Links: GayNZ.com
Virtuous Circles?
Labour and the Greens probably have the inside running for most New Zealand LGBT votes, and for good reason- beyond the obvious reasons...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 11 Nov 2010

Television item (Melbourne, Australia)
Close Up, ref: TZP391543.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
A man of many ideas
Sam Shore Twenty seven-year-old Sam Shore is not only the "general minion" at Rainbow Youth, he is also an incredibly talented playwright and his creation The Idea of America is currently onstage at TAPAC in Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
India after 377
On July 2 2009, Delhi's High Court struck down antigay Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a vestige of the British Raj of the nineteenth century...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF dismisses claim it lied in HIV Review
Absolutely Positively Positive's logo A claim by an HIV positive people's peer support group that the NZ AIDS Foundation lied in material it supplied for the just-released HIV Services review is wrong, according to the Foundation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Student union seeks urgent meeting with Key
Students are requesting an urgent meeting with Prime Minister John Key after a bill to make student union membership voluntary passed its second reading last night...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Sum of Us writer to attend screening
Oscar-nominated writer and director David Stevens will attend a special screening of his classic gay Australian drama The Sum of Us is Auckland next week...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 11 Nov 2009

Anti-gay reggae singer gets Big Day Out invite
A reggae singer notorious for lyrics which incite the murder of gay people has been invited to perform at Auckland's Big Day Out music festival in January...
Links: GayNZ.com
Kidman and Paltrow cast in transgender story
Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow are set to play husband and wife as the true story of the world's first post-op transsexual gets a film treatment...
Links: GayNZ.com
Waikato office closing as NZAF redirects resources
The NZ AIDS Foundation's permanent presence in the Waikato is being scaled down towards eventual closure in February as the NZAF reapportions its resources towards Auckland and the internet...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 11 Nov 2008

MPs: Pro-gay stance didn't doom Labour
Labour's socially progressive stance over its nine years in Government, which included legal recognition of same-sex relationships, was not a factor in its election defeat, according to one outgoing and two incoming gay MPs...
Links: GayNZ.com
New Government is a worry, says Barnett
Former Rainbow Labour MP Tim Barnett says New Zealand's general election at the weekend saw a significant shift to the right, and brought in a new government which LGBT Kiwis should be wary of...
Links: GayNZ.com
New hate speech and crime laws for Hungary
Yesterday the Hungarian Parliament has passed two measures which protect the rights of its LGBT citizens – one involving degrading or intimidating behaviour, and another specifically involving 'hate speech'...
Links: GayNZ.com
Schwarzenegger blasts gay marriage ban
As gay and lesbian groups across California protest against the banning of same-sex marriage, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now says he hopes California's Supreme Court will overturn the measure, which he sees as unconstitutional...
Links: GayNZ.com
World Record plans for Queen of Universe
The fifth anniversary Queen of the Whole Universe show this Saturday night at Auckland's Aotea Centre will beattempting to break a Guinness World Record for the largest number of drag queens performing on stage at once...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 11 Nov 2007

Gay Men's Health team leader Matt Creamer
Matt Creamer Former Police Diversity Liasion Officier Matt Creamer is now one of the new kids on the block at the New Zealand AIDS Foundation...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK: Soldier offered sex to 'convert' a lesbian
A sergeant told a lesbian soldier he might be able to "convert" her, an employment tribunal has heard...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 11 Nov 2006

Deep concerns over bareback dating
The NZ AIDS Foundation is deeply concerned about the results of the just-published GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Investigation: Unsafe sex rampant on dating websites
It's not news...
Links: GayNZ.com
Unsafe sex dominates internet hookups
A sting operation on an internet dating website has revealed that hundreds, if not thousands, of New Zealand gay and bi are seeking unsafe sex, regardless of the dangers of contracting HIV...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 11 Nov 2005

God may strike Fiji, says church
God may strike Fiji with natural disasters because the Methodist Church has been stopped from staging a second anti-gay hate march, says the church's general secretary...
Links: GayNZ.com
MP Gordon Copeland: "God's seal of approval"
The human rights rollback for the glbt community in New Zealand has begun...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 11 Nov 2004

Television item (New Zealand)
Qn, ref: TZP300541.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
"Don't read too much into Bill's passage"
The passing of the Care of Children Bill is a good sign, but we shouldn't read too much into it regarding the possible future of the Civil Union Bill, says Associate Justice Minister David Benson-Pope...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sex, Race and Religion - an unstable cocktail?
Sex, race and religion - three subjects driving New Zealanders apart...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 11 Nov 2003

"Keep yer friggin hands off my boyfriend"
Palmerston North's conservative boundaries are being tested by a gay artist in a new exhibition at the Square Edge community gallery...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Future of Queer Television
With whiteboard pen poised, TVNZ's Tony Holden set out in earnest to gather opinion on the future of New Zealand's queer television at a symposium held in Auckland yesterday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tolerance caution from deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen has warned in an address to the Labour Party conference at the weekend that the party has to beware of pushing boundaries that the public is not ready for...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 11 Nov 1986

N.z. Could Be A.i.d.s. Free, Say Experts (Press, 11 November 1986)
On 11 November 1986, two visiting A.I.D.S. experts, Sam Tuckett and Tom Coates, highlighted the critical opportunity for Auckland, New Zealand, to become an A.I.D.S.-free zone. During their visit for an A.I.D.S. prevention workshop, they stressed that the next couple of years would be essential in determining the country's response...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
New African A.i.d.s. Virus Discovered (Press, 11 November 1986)
A new A.I.D.S. virus discovered in West Africa in 1985 may pose a significant health threat, according to French researcher Dr Luc Montagnier. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Francisco on 11 November 1986, he indicated that the newly identified virus, referred...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 11 Nov 1981

'english As She Is Spoke’ (Press, 11 November 1981)
In a new guide released on 11 November 1981, Dr Robert Burchfield, a New Zealander and chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries, offers his insights on spoken English to British audiences. Drawing from two years of monitoring BBC radio and listener feedback from Britain, New Zealand, and the United...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 11 Nov 1978

N.z. Style Of Leadership ’based On Fear’ (Press, 11 November 1978)
On 11 November 1978, Rev. Felix Donnelly, an Auckland Roman Catholic priest and lecturer in community health, expressed deep concerns about the social climate in New Zealand during his visit to Christchurch to promote his book, "Big Boys Don’t Cry." He painted a bleak picture of the nation's handling of...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 11 Nov 1976

Queer Laugh Singles A Man Out (Press, 11 November 1976)
In an article published on 11 November 1976 by A. K. Grant, the author reflects on the implications of the Muldoon-Moyle affair, specifically concerning the term "effeminate giggling." The controversy arose after Mr Moyle's giggles led to accusations against Prime Minister Muldoon regarding Moyle's background in homosexual activities. Grant expresses...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 11 Nov 1975

An Advertising Phantasmagoria (Press, 11 November 1975)
In a recent screening held in Christchurch, a South African company showcased a commercial titled "Big Fresh John," which addresses the needs of the character Big John from popular culture, known for his imposing physique. This screening marked the New Zealand premiere of the advertisement, which was previously awarded at...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 11 Nov 1971

Undemanding Task For Edward Woodward (Press, 11 November 1971)
In a review of the television series "Callan," published on 11 November 1971, the writer noted a noticeable dip in quality for the latest episode, suggesting that Hunter had placed Callan on lighter duties. This week’s narrative was described as thin and uninspiring, falling short of the series' usual engaging...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 11 Nov 1950

The first meeting of the Mattachine Society is held (Los Angeles, United States of America)
The Mattachine Society is one of the earliest homophile organisations in the USA.
Links: Wikipedia, LAGANZ

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