On This Day: 26th November

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Sat 26 Nov 2022

Wellington Phoenix captain to wear pride armband during A-League Women match
Captains across the A-League Women are showing solidarity with the LGBTI+ community amid Fifa's crackdown on 'OneLove' armbands at World Cup...
Links: Stuff
Wellington Phoenix captain wears pride armband during A-League Women match
Captains across the A-League Women are showing solidarity with the LGBTI+ community amid Fifa's crackdown on 'OneLove' armbands at World Cup...
Links: Stuff
Wellington Phoenix captain wears pride armband during A-League Women match
Phoenix's show of solidarity for LGBTI+ community 'quite fitting' as player celebrates engagement to her girlfriend the day before A-League Women match...
Links: Stuff
2 X TICKETS TO BLUES FEST SOUL REBEL’S TOUR FEATURING BIG...
Links: Express
2 X TICKETS TO ELTON JOHN’S AUCKLAND and CHRISTCHURCH SHOWS
Links: Express
3 X DOUBLE PASSES TO I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
Links: Express

Fri 26 Nov 2021

Albatross divorce rates soar
Albatross are among some of the most loyal and monogamous species in the animal kingdom, but researchers say global warming is contributing to an increase of 'divorces'...
Links: RNZ
Covid-19 lockdown highlights 'ridiculous' Pharmac rule for access to safe sex drug
Auckland's Covid-19 lockdown is highlighting "ridiculous" and "arbitrary" Pharmac rules that are restricting access to a safe sex drug common to gay men...
Links: RNZ
New portraiture exhibition pays homage to the 1980s
Big hair, pop-coloured clothing, Robert Muldoon, the Springbok tour, and Homosexual Law Reform are referenced in a new Portrait Gallery exhibition...
Links: Stuff
Married at First Sight Australia Axes Contestant Following Homophobic and ...
Links: Express

Thu 26 Nov 2020

Wellington High School is placed into lockdown following a threat from a student (Wellington, New Zealand)
A parent and student later told media that the would-be shooter planned to specifically target rainbow students - although police later insisted this wasn't the case.
Links: Pink News, Stuff(1), Stuff(2)
Controversial school board member resigns after bathroom mishap in Zoom meeting
A US school board member who created outrage after once saying she was "disgusted" by the LGBT curriculum has seen her career go down the toilet after accidentally sharing herself on the lavatory during a public meeting on Zoom...
Links: NZ Herald
Corrections admits it needs to learn more about trans prisoners
Corrections is admitting it has more to learn about how to manage and protect trans gender prisoners...
Links: RNZ
Guards called me 'it', 'homo' and talked about my genitals - trans prisoner
A trans woman says she was housed with a rapist and stripped of her humanity in Paremoremo prison...
Links: RNZ
Over Half Of Trans People Experienced A Transphobic Attack In 2020...
Links: Express
Police: Wellington High School Threat Not Targeting Specific Group
Links: Express
Victoria Set to Ban Cruel Conversion Practices For Good
Links: Express
Washington D.C On Track To Ban ‘Panic Defence’
Links: Express
Wellington High School Locked-Down Following “Credible Threat” To LGBT+ Students
Links: Express

Tue 26 Nov 2019

Defence Force announces Rainbow Tick for inclusiveness
The Defence Force has been awarded a rainbow tick for its inclusion of lesbian, gay and transgender troops...
Links: RNZ
EXPRESS GOES OUT and ABOUT @ G.A.Y
Links: Express
GAY TEEN BECOMES ONE OF THE YOUNGEST ELECTED OFFICIALS IN U.S.A
Links: Express
NEW INDEX HIGHLIGHTS SAFEST AND MOST DANGEROUS DESTINATIONS FOR LGBTI TRAVELERS
Links: Express
OUT and ABOUT AT FAMILY BAR and CLUB
Links: Express

Mon 26 Nov 2018

'This does not feel like a rainbow parade to me'
A transgender advocate is backing the Auckland Pride Board's decision to ban uniformed police from next year's parade...
Links: RNZ
Boy, 11, forced to have sex with stepmother 'to stop him being gay'
WARNING - DISTURBING CONTENT An eleven-year-old boy was forced by his own father to watch porn and have sex with his stepmother in an attempt to 'cure' him of homosexuality...
Links: NZ Herald
Want to be the Next Mr. Gay New Zealand? Registrations are...
Links: Express

Sun 26 Nov 2017

Jeffrey Eugenides: writing modern classics
Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer - and one of the finest American novelists today...
Links: RNZ
The Questionnaire: Te Rongopai Tukiwaho
Te Rongopai Tukiwaho is a producer, director, lecturer, actor, singer and community activist...
Links: Stuff

Thu 26 Nov 2015

Trans women encouraged to contribute to UN report
Trans women are encouraged to join the conversation in ending discrimination against women ahead of New Zealand’s periodic report to the UN...
Links: GayNZ.com
Vietnam passes groundbreaking trans rights law
Lawmakers in Vietnam have passed a gender identity law that is said to pave the wave for other transgender rights legislation...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 26 Nov 2014

Bruce’s Battles for our Positive Present
Links: Express
Meet Your Community: Writer Sandi Hall
Links: Express
New Zealand AIDS Foundation Elects New Chair
Links: Express
RainbowYOUTH Seeks National Fundraising Manager
Links: Express
Sam Brooks Nominated for Chapman Tripp Theatre Award
Links: Express
Tony Abbott Reiterates Opposition to Marriage Equality
Links: Express
Auckland lawyer elected new NZAF Chair
David Friar is a partner at Bell Gully Lawyer David Friar has been elected Chair of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s Board...
Links: GayNZ.com
Aus: Fresh hope for conscience vote
David Leyonhjelm UPDATED: An Australian Senator will introduce his marriage equality legislation today - despite Tony Abbott advising him not to...
Links: GayNZ.com
Brooks up for Chapman Tripp award
Sam Brooks is a finalist in the Outstanding New Playwright category of Wellington's Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for his play Riding In Cars With (Mostly Straight) Boys...
Links: GayNZ.com
More World AIDS Day collectors needed
UPDATED: The New Zealand AIDS Foundation needs more volunteers to collect for the World AIDS Day appeal on Friday...
Links: GayNZ.com
RainbowYOUTH seeking a fundraiser
RainbowYOUTH is looking for a new staff member to take up the expanded role of National Fundraising Manager...
Links: GayNZ.com
Reclaiming the word, or bringing back the pain?
Retired teacher and trans woman Diane Sparkes doesn’t believe we should be reclaiming words like queer and faggot...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 26 Nov 2013

Anti-gay group uses The XX track in campaign
The XX UK band The XX is considering suing a Croatian group opposed to marriage equality for using one of its songs in its campaign...
Links: GayNZ.com
GABA offers funding for Pride participants
The Gay Auckland Business Association’s charitable wing is calling for applications from people needing cash to run an event during Auckland Pride, or help covering costs for a Pride Parade float...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rainbow Youth GM mugged near K' Rd
Duncan Matthews (file photo) The General Manager of Rainbow Youth has been mugged while walking to his car on the back streets of K’ Rd, in Auckland...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wall heads to women in Parliament gathering
Lesbian Labour MP Louisa Wall is about to take part in a gathering of female politicians from across the globe in Brussels...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 26 Nov 2012

Couple speaks out about MP's insulting question
A Wellington couple has expressed its disgust at being asked “who will be identified as husband, and who will be identified as wife?" by a National MP on the committee hearing submissions on the marriage equality bill...
Links: GayNZ.com
Des and John: we were insulted
New Zealand’s first civil unioned couple, Des Smith and John Jolliff, have written to the select committee considering the marriage equality bill expressing their disgust at the “insulting” question National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi levelled at them...
Links: GayNZ.com
Field's comments "offensive and disgraceful"
Phillip Field Young Labour’s Pacific representative says Phillip Field’s comments that Labour is “infested” with gays are “offensive and disgraceful...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay couple say "ignorant, bigoted" MP must go
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi MP One of the country's most high-profile gay couples is calling for an MP to be sacked from the select committee considering the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill which, if passed, would enable same sex couples to formally marry...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ Govt urged to condemn Ugandan bill
There has been global outcry against the bill The New Zealand Government is being urged to make a stand officially condemning Uganda’s hateful anti-gay bill...
Links: GayNZ.com
On with pride: lesbian night
It’s hard to avoid being an obnoxious Aucklander, spouting clichés, when you arrive in Christchurch and see the devastation for yourself...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 26 Nov 2011

10.18PM: Wall hopes to help glbti Manurewa kids
Louisa Wall Returning lesbian MP Louisa Wall says she is looking forward to representing the people of her Manurewa electorate and amongst her plans is a hope to promote the interests of at-risk glbti youth in her area...
Links: GayNZ.com
10.32PM: Maggie Barry's Nth Shore win "great news"
Maggie Barry Gay and HIV community supporter Maggie Barry has resoundingly taken the conservative North Shore electorate and her entry into Parliament is being welcomed as "great news...
Links: GayNZ.com
10.58PM: Borrows is back, but there's good news too
Chester Borrows 10...
Links: GayNZ.com
10:35PM Greens' Jan Logie ready to take on Banks
Jan Logie "It's a shame to have such a clearly homophobic voice back in Parliament" is the verdict from an incoming lesbian Green MP on the re-emergence of John Banks...
Links: GayNZ.com
11.05PM: Homophobe Banks set to be ACT leader
John Banks 11...
Links: GayNZ.com
11.40PM: Future bleak for glbt issues - Robertson
Grant Robertson 11...
Links: GayNZ.com
7.00PM: Election: Nine out candidates in contention
Could these be the gay and lesbian faces of Parliament? (Maryan Street, Charles Chauvel, Grant Robertson, Louisa Wall, Jordan Carter, Kevin Hague, Jan Logie, Chris Finlayson and Claudette Hauiti) 7...
Links: GayNZ.com
7.40PM: Early indications - Banks in?
John Banks has the early lead in Epsom 7...
Links: GayNZ.com
8.10PM: Two Green glbti MPs likely, MMP favoured
Kevin Hague and Jan Logie 8...
Links: GayNZ.com
8.50PM: Wall looking sure, Hauiti biting her nails
8...
Links: GayNZ.com
9.50PM: Kaye leads Ardern in close race
9...
Links: GayNZ.com
9.50PM: The shock of Banks, the surprise of NZ First
9...
Links: GayNZ.com
9:15PM: Parliament to have at least seven out MPs
The next Parliament is set to have at least seven gay and lesbian MPs, while two others face a nervous night to see if they will make the cut via their party lists...
Links: GayNZ.com
Out candidates ready for results to roll in
After joining the rest of the nation in casting their votes, gay and lesbian candidates across the country will be following tonight's results in a variety of venues...
Links: GayNZ.com
Scratch the surface
In the hubbub of the election and the collection for World AIDS Day, it would have passed by many that Friday 25 November was also the White Ribbon Day for Violence Against Women...
Links: GayNZ.com
Six in the hunt for Mister Canterbury Bear title
Last year's winner Arthur "Arfa Bear" Milne Cantabrians will be proving theirs are no ordinary bears when they decide who will be the next Mister Canterbury Bear next week...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 26 Nov 2010

Denny Moran (Brisbane)
Denny Moran talks about the gay scene in Wellington in the 1970s - including Carmen and various beats.
Features: Denny Moran
Links: PrideNZ.com
Buckwheat to fight Ribena in charity boxing battle
It will be a battle of drag royalty tonight as Edward " Buckwheat" Cowley takes on Kevin "Miss Ribena" Dunseath in a boxing bout...
Links: GayNZ.com
Circle of Friends Accepting New Name Pledges
If you or you know of someone who would like their name engraved into the Circle of Friends for those effected or affected by HIV/AIDS please contact Body Positive (09 309 3989) to register your interest...
Links: GayNZ.com
Family Research Council declared a hate group
FRC President Tony Perkins America's Family Research Council is demanding an apology after a prominent civil rights law firm classified it as a hate group due to its anti-gay stance...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 26 Nov 2009

"We need a Lesbian Elders Village!"
The 'Lesbian Elders Village' crew soon hope to build a place where seasoned Sapphic ladies can enjoy their twilight years together...
Links: GayNZ.com
'Xmas Factor' game will challenge K' Road
Drag icon Buckwheat and Steven 'Sparkle' Oates say their new Xmas Factor game starting this Saturday night at K' Road's Naval on Saturday night and other rounds are also scheduled for Saturday 5 and 19 December...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ambassador's partner "sensitive issue" in Samoa
The gay man just appointed as American ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa will get a warm welcome in the Islands but the status of his partner will cause difficulties in Samoa, according to a highly placed observer of gay and faafafine affairs...
Links: GayNZ.com
Australia: Activists fight for marriage equality
Celebration over Australia's first legally binding civil union ceremony - held in Canberra yesterday - could be short-lived, as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to overturn the legislation which made it possible...
Links: GayNZ.com
Charles Chauvel MP: Good riddance to the 'Gay Panic Defence'
In Parliament today, gay Labour MP Charles Chauvel blasted the ACT Party for wanting to keep a legal defence tactic which has led to lighter sentences for killers of gay men...
Links: GayNZ.com
Escaping the Exclusive Brethren
20-year-old Craig Hoyle, who was brought up in the Exclusive Brethren Church, risked losing everything when he told his priests and family he was gay...
Links: GayNZ.com
Parliament abolishes Partial Defence of Provocation
The defence tactic which has seen several killers of gay New Zealand men get a lighter sentence of manslaughter instead of murder has been struck off the law books today...
Links: GayNZ.com
Rumours of another HIV arrest appear false
An internet rumour that a second Auckland man has been arrested for allegedly knowingly infecting other men with HIV and is out on bail with name suppression appears to be without any basis in fact...
Links: GayNZ.com
Three special lesbian events this weekend
With two fun events in Auckland and a huge club night in Wellington, this weekend is one of 2009's busiest for party-hopping lesbians in New Zealand's biggest cities...
Links: GayNZ.com
World fashions a brooch for World AIDS Day
Renowned Kiwi fashion house World has released a unique red ribbon brooch to benefit the NZ AIDS Foundation this World AIDS Day...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 26 Nov 2008

"Two of my friends got HIV – from the same guy"
Riane is left angry and confused after close friends told him they both got HIV from a man who's still out there picking up guys...
Links: GayNZ.com
Kiwi cricket team called "faggots" in Oz
Aussie cricket fans have been yelling homophobic abuse at New Zealand's Black Caps team during test matches, and now the companies running the cricket grounds have been warned the behaviour is unacceptable...
Links: GayNZ.com
More rights for Aussie gay couples
Australian gay and lesbians couples are a large step closer to equality this week as the senate has approved several measures to recognize their relationships...
Links: GayNZ.com
Small African nation makes gays illegal
The Parliament of the small country of Burundi in Eastern Africa has criminalized homosexuality...
Links: GayNZ.com
Urge bar turns 11 with party weekend
Auckland's Urge bar reaches another milestone this weekend as it celebrates its 11th Birthday with a weekend of festivities...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 26 Nov 2007

Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP344053.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
The trial of Ashley Arnopp and Andre Gilling begins over the death of Stanley Waipouri. (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
Arnopp and Gilling are charged with murdering Waipouri in Palmerston North on 23 December 2006.
Links: Gay NZ
Another US state prepares for Civil Unions
Same-sex couples in the North-Eastern US state of New Hampshire will be able to apply for civil union licenses in about a week, the state agency that oversees marriage licenses has announced...
Links: GayNZ.com
The quest for condom crusaders continues
Daniel, Alex, Chris, Shaun, Jayjay, Neil ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Waipouri mutilated, killed in two hour attack
Gay man Stanley Waipouri was beaten to death in a frenzied attack that lasted several hours and during which an ear and the tip of his penis were severed, a jury heard today...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 26 Nov 2006

NZAF pledges support for Pacific Islands
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation's activities should not be limited to New Zealand, it's members decided at yesterday's AGM...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 26 Nov 2004

Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP296372.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television news report: a man who is HIV+ is charged with criminal nuisance after having protected sex (New Zealand)
One news, ref F84513.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, NZ Herald
"Remove the tranny granny" - Act MP
New Human Rights Tribunal appointee, "tranny granny" Jacquie Grant, should be removed from her position immediately, says a fundamentalist lobby group, supported in their stance by ACT MP Stephen Franks...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 26 Nov 2003

Television news report: mothers may soon be offered HIV tests (New Zealand)
Interviewees include Annette King and Gill Greer. TV3 news, ref F61111.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Gays "roasting" in hell rubbished by Bishop
The idea of gay people roasting in hell and not being real Christians has been labelled "pathetic" and "literalist" by the Anglican Dean of Auckland, Bishop Richard Randerson...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 26 Nov 2002

Call for community groups to climb aboard Hero
A call has gone out for gay organisations and event organisers wishing to include an event in Auckland's Hero Festival 2003...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 26 Nov 2001

Life - But not as we know it
Looking at society with a gay and lesbian political perspective can be a stressful activity...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 26 Nov 1998

The Government's Human Rights Amendment Bill is defeated (New Zealand)

Sat 26 Nov 1988

Britain To Adopt Random Testing For A.i.d.s. (Press, 26 November 1988)
On 26 November 1988, the British Government announced its plans to initiate random testing for the A.I.D.S. virus, known as H.I.V. Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke made the announcement during a news conference, explaining that individuals who had voluntarily donated blood for reasons other than A.I.D.S. testing would undergo anonymous tests...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 26 Nov 1987

Testing Without Consent? (Press, 26 November 1987)
On 26 November 1987, concerns were raised in Wellington about individuals being tested for AIDS antibodies without their consent. Mr Bill Logan, a spokesman for the Gay Task Force, and Mr Warren Lindberg, a director of the AIDS Foundation, highlighted the issue, stating that this practice contradicts established health protocols...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 26 Nov 1986

Toy Gun, Album Are Top Sellers (Press, 26 November 1986)
On 26 November 1986, it was reported that the Hyundai Excel auto from South Korea has been recognised as “the fastest-selling import in history” and has made it onto “Fortune” magazine's list of the top 10 products of the year in the United States. Among the other notable products featured...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 26 Nov 1985

Attempt To Censure Baptist Committee (Press, 26 November 1985)
An attempt to limit the authority of the Baptist Union's public questions committee has been unsuccessful following a debate at the Baptist Assembly held in Lower Hutt. The notice of motion aimed to restrict the committee's ability to make public statements under its own name, particularly after its support for...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Mosem Claims Denied (Press, 26 November 1985)
A spokesman for the National Gay Rights Coalition, Phil Parkinson, has refuted claims made by Noel Mosen, a self-proclaimed former gay activist, who stated in the Christian newspaper "Challenge Weekly" that he was a former leader of the National Gay Rights Coalition. Parkinson clarified that Mosen had never held any...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 26 Nov 1984

Jesus Programme Gets Little Reaction (Press, 26 November 1984)
On 26 November 1984, Television New Zealand reported that the initial screening of the documentary "Jesus—the Evidence," which had provoked months of protests, resulted in minimal viewer reaction. Colin Hindson, a public relations executive for the network, noted that there were no calls in Auckland and only four in Wellington...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Stronger Line On A.I.D.S. Favoured (Press, 26 November 1984)
A recent poll indicates that a significant majority of New Zealanders support prosecuting blood donors who knowingly put others at risk of contracting AIDS. The survey, conducted by “Sunday”-AGB Spectrum and featured on a television programme, found that 82 per cent of participants, out of a sample of 520, were...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television news report: an AIDS hotline is established (New Zealand)
Features an interview with Bruce Burnett. 6.30 news Top Half, ref F59173.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
Television: AIDS counselling service set up in Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)
ref: TZP132290.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 26 Nov 1983

A.I.D.S. Coming, Say Experts (Press, 26 November 1983)
On 26 November 1983, a seminar in Dunedin highlighted the impending threat of A.I.D.S. (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) possibly entering New Zealand. Professor D. C. G. Skegg, head of the department of preventive and social medicine at the Otago Medical School, noted during the annual clinical and scientific meeting of...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television: David Bowie concert in Auckland drew a crowd of between 70 and 80,000 (Auckland, New Zealand)
ref: TZP128043.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Thu 26 Nov 1981

P.n.g. Ombudsman Finds School Inquiry False (Press, 26 November 1981)
the inspector, leading to the falsification of evidence. The Ombudsman Commission's report highlighted serious misconduct within the Education Department, emphasizing that the inquiry's shortcomings stemmed from a failure of duty among specific officials, rather than any considerations regarding the inspector’s sexual orientation. The inquiry was sparked by complaints from three expatriate...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 26 Nov 1976

Terms Set For Moyle Inquiry (Press, 26 November 1976)
On 26 November 1976, New Zealand's Minister of Justice, Mr Thomson, announced the establishment of a one-man commission of inquiry led by retired Court of Appeal president, Sir Alfred North. This inquiry is aimed at investigating an alleged breach of confidentiality concerning a police file on Labour MP Mr C....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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