On This Day: 2nd December

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Sat 2 Dec 2023

Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
The buiniga is a traditional Fijian unisex hairstyle...
Links: RNZ
Dame Lisa Carringtonâs pride: Why this win was a special victory for the Kiwi kayaker
Why a historic sporting victory means so much to our world champion kayaker...
Links: NZ Herald

Fri 2 Dec 2022

A FESTIVAL TO UNITE, UPLIFT AND INSPIRE | AAF 2023
Links: Express

Thu 2 Dec 2021

Local Focus: The homeless lifeline for Tauranga women
Hine Ngand#257;kau opened in May of this year and has housed more than 40 women...
Links: NZ Herald
Meet Baby Amy!
Links: Express

Wed 2 Dec 2020

Tangi Utikere maiden statement in Parliament (Parliament buildings)
The maiden statement of Tangi Utikere in Parliament, 2 December 2020
Features: Tangi Utikere, Trevor Mallard
Links: PrideNZ.com
Community-led Approaches Are Pivotal To Respond To HIV, SRHR And Covid-19
Solidarity and accountability are the hallmarks of tackling public health problems, as well as health emergencies...
Links: Scoop
Elliot Page disclosure gives Trans visibility 'huge' boost, Hollywood insiders say
By announcing that he was transgender, Oscar nominee Elliot Page has increased the visibility of a community that has been calling for just that...
Links: Stuff
Elliot Page: Juno star comes out as transgender
"I feel lucky to be writing this...
Links: Stuff
Europe still on various lockdowns heading into Christmas
Europe correspondent Catherine Walbridge updates us on the availability of the vaccine where she is in Austria; Christmas markets and punch stands are closed for Christmas; a conservative Hungarian MP with strong anti-LGBTQI views is caught fleeing a gay sex party in Brussels and the Austrian town that's changing its name...
Links: RNZ
First openly gay WWE wrestling star Pat Patterson dead at 79
Patterson has been hailed as a trailblazer by the likes of John Cena as tributes roll on...
Links: Stuff
Miley Cyrus and more stars celebrate Elliot Page coming out as transgender
Juno star Elliot Page received support from Miley Cyrus, Alyssa Milano, Olivia Munn and more after coming out as transgender...
Links: Stuff
‘Juno’ Star Elliot Page Comes Out As Transgender
Links: Express
Biden Planning Rapid Unwind Of Anti-LGBT+ Trump Policy
Links: Express
Tamati’s Unfinished Business
Links: Express

Mon 2 Dec 2019

Israel Folau accused of 'homosexuality vilification' by gay rights campaigner
Gay rights activist accuses star of "homosexual villification" and demands he pays A$100,000 to charity...
Links: Stuff
2 x PASS TO LANEWAY FESTIVAL
Links: Express
2 x THREE-DAY PASS TO SPLORE FESTIVAL
Links: Express
2 x THREE-DAY PASS TO WOMAD FESTIVAL
Links: Express
Sydney Cops Made to Take Drug Test Because They Were Gay...
Links: Express

Sun 2 Dec 2018

Australian Labor Party pushes for gay student protections
The Australian Labor Party is urging their federal government to help implement a ban on religious schools discriminating against gay students...
Links: Stuff

Sat 2 Dec 2017

World AIDS Day: UN calls for renewed commitment
World AIDS Day: UN calls for renewed commitment to make epidemic ‘a thing of the past’ ...
Links: Scoop
Trevor Easton to Finish up at OUTLine
Links: Express

Fri 2 Dec 2016

LarzRanda is “Hot Like Tiger Balm”
Links: Express
Mike Pence’s New House Will Be Surrounded by Rainbows
Links: Express
$20k donated for Bartlett's treatment expenses
Donations to help cover medical expenses incurred when an Auckland lesbian teacher suffered a fatal heart attack returning from visiting family and friends in Canada have reached almost $20,000...
Links: GayNZ.com
Advocacy and Activism: Sonya Apa Temata
As we fight for a future free from oppression in all forms, activism and advocacy are the building blocks of our communities...
Links: GayNZ.com
Weeping hostel owner's sentencing delayed
An administrative problem has delayed today's scheduled sentencing of a Northland hostel owner who drugged, sexually assaulted and photographed a number of his young male guests...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Dec 2015

A Christmas Message From the Auckland Rainbow Community Church
Links: Express
Bosnia’s Gay Rights Activists Hope EU Bid Will Help End Anti...
Links: Express
Gay Store Pops in Ponsonby
Links: Express
WATCH: New Local Lesbian Drama ‘Pot Luck’
Links: Express
World AIDS Day Marked All Over the Globe
Links: Express
AKL Council looking to create gender neutral toliets
The Auckland Council is looking to re-label some staff toilets to make them more trans and intersex friendly...
Links: GayNZ.com
BP board gone, no member interest in transition
The entire board of Body Positive has formally resigned after no members offered to form a transition group to assist it with the process of electing a new board...
Links: GayNZ.com
Episode one of Pot luck now online
The first episode of New Zealand’s only ever lesbian web series is now live and ready for your viewing pleasure...
Links: GayNZ.com
ILGA Oceania human rights conference launched
A call has gone out to the Wellington gay communities to participate in a major glbti human rights conference being hosted in the city in March...
Links: GayNZ.com
Second UK trans inmate found dead in mens prison
A trans inmate in the UK has been found dead in her cell at a men’s prison, only weeks after the death of a trans inmate in another UK prison facility...
Links: GayNZ.com
The hunt is on for the next Mr Gay New Zealand
The hunt for the next Mr Gay New Zealand, with registrations opening on 18 December...
Links: GayNZ.com
World AIDS Day "important now as it has ever been"
Executive Director of NZAF, Shaun Robinson, says World AIDS Day is just as important now as it ever has been and believes we have the ability to end HIV transmissions within the decade...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Dec 2014

25 Years and 25 More – The History of Rainbow Youth
Links: Express
Apple Rejects Plan to Name Anti GLBT Discrimination Bill After CEO...
Links: Express
Auckland Outgames
Links: Express
Auckland Theatre Company’s 2015 Season Inspired by Master’s of Reinvention
Links: Express
Berlin and Beyond By Bicycle
Links: Express
Enter Now! express’ Short Story Contest Closing Soon
Links: Express
Gay Retirement Group Set to End
Links: Express
Healthy Food Eateries
Links: Express
Our Top 3 Gay Autobiographies
Links: Express
Owen Sidhu
Links: Express
Pride’s New Program
Links: Express
RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner to Perform in Christchurch
Links: Express
Summer’s Hottest Camping Destinations – Vinegar Hill
Links: Express
The Fiddler’s Way
Links: Express
Gay show and director win theatre award
Shane Bosher Gay theatre director Shane Bosher and his cast and production team have won the top prize for excellence at the annual Auckland Theatre Awards for their staging of the gay and HIV-themed Angels in America...
Links: GayNZ.com
Lack of glbti emergency housing raised
Auckland Council has expressed concern about the lack of emergency housing for glbti people...
Links: GayNZ.com
Losing Urge "a shame" for Akl and K' Rd
The impending closure of New Zealand’s longest-running gay bar is being described as a sad loss, and one which is raising questions about the future viability of gay venues...
Links: GayNZ.com
Memories of Urge
New Zealander's longest-running gay bar, Urge, is to close at the end of February...
Links: GayNZ.com
The new queen on the block
Princess to Queen 2014 winner Carmen Dioxide is (by day) an inflight service manager, gym junkie, skateboarder and pianist, who makes her own outfits, and built up to the competition by watching an entire six seasons of Ru Paul’s Drag Race this year! Carmen Dioxide took out the title at Auckland's Family Bar on Friday night Matt/Carmen answers our ‘get to know you’ questions: How did you get into drag? It all began when I was living in Tauranga in 2009...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 2 Dec 2013

Getting to know Yaya
In her first outing, Patrick Salmon's alter-ego Yaya has won Auckland drag to riches competition Princess 2 Queen...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 2 Dec 2012

Joseph Habgood - Marriage Equality Conference (Community House/Press Hall)
Joseph Habgood, one of the founders of LegaliseLove, talks about the beginnings of the organisation
Features: Joseph Habgood
Links: PrideNZ.com
Murray Riches - Marriage Equality Conference (Community House/Press Hall)
Murray Riches talks about his research project How Do We Make it Better
Features: Murray Riches
Links: PrideNZ.com
Participant Reaction - Marriage Equality Conference (Community House/Press Hall)
Participants reflect on the Marriage Equality Conference, held in Wellington December 2012
Features: Andrew Cunningham, Bill Logan, Cameron Hoskins, Chris Coker, David Do, Elysia Carroll, Ian Anderson, Jim Whitman, Joseph Habgood, Kay Jones, Merv Ransom, Rawa Karetai, Rosie Jimson-Healey, Sam Humphrey, Sara Fraser, Shelley Te Waiariki Howard, Tabby Besley
Links: PrideNZ.com
Report Back - Marriage Equality Conference (Community House/Press Hall)
The two conference streams report back on their sessions at the end of the Marriage Equality Conference
Features: Ian Anderson, Rawa Karetai, William Leith
Links: PrideNZ.com
Back to normal after World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day was yesterday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Back to normal after World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day was yesterday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fired teacher calls for major changes in schools
Nigel Studdart Sacked Northland teacher Nigel Studdart says the Education Review Office needs to ensure schools are safe for everyone...
Links: GayNZ.com
Glamour and fantasy close Chch Pride festival
Christchurch's Pride festival ended with a bang last night when round 200 people attended the closing Get it On! Fantasy Ball...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sililpa Take's court appearance delayed
Silipa Take A court appearance for a former New Zealand AIDS Foundation counsellor charged with indecent assault has been delayed...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Dec 2011

Queensland Parliament oks Civil Unions
Queensland, of the most conservative Australian states, has passed Civil Union lesgislation allowing for legal recognition of same-sex partnerships...
Links: GayNZ.com
Robertson may have prompted Parker's withdrawal
Grant Robertson Yesterday's surprise announcement that David Parker has dropped out of the race for the Labour leadership was apparently prompted by gay MP Grant Robertson deciding to back one of Parker's opponents, David Shearer...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Dec 2010

Christmas comes early for GABA grant recipients
Nikki Kaye, Rainbow Youth's Tom Hamilton and GABA's Gresham Bradley The Gay Auckland Business Association Charitable Trust has handed out the money it has raised this year to a range of community groups, supporting everything from sound system for West Auckland lesbians to new books and DVDs for Rainbow Youth's library...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay couple claim bigotry at building hearing
White Shadows Country Inn A gay couple who run a five-star bed and breakfast in Queenstown claim "bias and bigotry" are behind their neighbours' opposition to their resource consent for building rights on an adjoining block...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gay dad wins fight to spend time with kids
A British lesbian couple have lost an Appeal Court fight to stop the gay father of their two children spending more time with them...
Links: GayNZ.com
Illinois approves civil union legislation
The US state of Illinois has voted to legalise civil unions, a move which will be sealed once its Democratic Governor Pat Quinn officially signs it off...
Links: GayNZ.com
LPGA votes to allow transgender players
Lana Lawless The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has changed its rules to allow transgender women to compete after a player took legal action because she was denied entry to a tournament...
Links: GayNZ.com
Mercury turns birds gay, study finds
Scientists have found that consuming high doses of the chemical mercury makes some birds appear to turn gay...
Links: GayNZ.com
Passing for life
What do we really understand about the issues of being transgender as a community? Some of us grew up and learnt from the well meaning that to be trans person it is to be a “man trapped in a woman's body” or vice versa...
Links: GayNZ.com
Street slams amended UN resolution
Maryan Street Labour MP Maryan Street has written to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressing her party's "great dismay" at the removal of sexual orientation from a resolution condemning arbitrary execution by Governments...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 2 Dec 2009

"How Glenn Mills gave me HIV"
Following reports in April that an Auckland man, soon identified as 40-year old commuter train driver Glenn Mills, was knowingly infecting young sex partners with HIV and that police needed a formal complaint from one of his victims, one young man took the courageous step of fronting up to police and laying the complaint which opened the floodgates on the case...
Links: GayNZ.com
"How Glenn Mills gave me HIV"
Following reports in April that an Auckland man, soon identified as 40-year old commuter train driver Glenn Mills, was knowingly infecting young sex partners with HIV and that police needed a formal complaint from one of his victims, one young man took the courageous step of fronting up to police and laying the complaint which opened the floodgates on the case...
Links: GayNZ.com
Auckland's waterfront not available for Wigs 2010
The creator of Auckland's annual Wigs on the Waterfront fundraising day of drag shows says he's shocked to discover that its usual Viaduct Harbour location is not available this summer...
Links: GayNZ.com
Nations unite to fight Uganda's gay death bill
Uganda has outraged the world with its parliamentary bill which recommends the death penalty for men who have gay sex with disabled people, under-18s or when the accused is HIV-positive...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Dec 2008

Television item (New Zealand)
Misc-ext, ref: TZP368575.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
20th World AIDS Day marked worldwide
As well as across New Zealand, the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day was marked around the globe...
Links: GayNZ.com
Finding NZ's gay bars on Google's Street View
Google's new Street View guide to NZ was launched today...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF awards slammed as "meaningless"
An intended recipient of an NZ AIDS Foundation Life Membership declined to accept the award, describing the offer as "somewhat half-hearted and meaningless," claiming that the ceremony was "frivolous" in the face of the continuing spread of HIV, and suggesting that he was being used by the Foundation...
Links: GayNZ.com
Opening soon
The geyser capital of the world will soon have a gay bar on one of its main streets...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 2 Dec 2007

GABA Charity Auction raises $15,875
This afternoon's Gay Auckland Business Association Charity Christmas Auction at Bereford Street's historic Hopetoun Alpha building raised $15,875 for LGBT community causes and projects...
Links: GayNZ.com
Gaming with 'GayBoy'
A gay gamer logged into Xbox's popular shoot-'em-up Halo 3, calling himself 'xxxGayBoyxxx'...
Links: GayNZ.com
US: Transgender politician 'misled' voters
Four years after she won a Riverdale City Council seat, making her what is believed to be the Southern US State of Georgia's first transgender politician, Michelle Bruce is battling a lawsuit by an unsuccessful opponent who claims she misled voters by running as a woman...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 2 Dec 2006

Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP329502.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television news report: India is being called the new AIDS epicenter
One news, ref F96459.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
Auckland City Council seeks lesbians
The second Auckland City Council LGBT network meeting is planned for this Thursday, and organisers are keen for a better turnout by lesbians this time...
Links: GayNZ.com
Interview gives QWU title to Miss Mexico
Before an audience estimated at 1,700 the ultimate winner of the Queen of the Whole Universe pageant, Miss Mexico Gemyma Rakas Rrrrrr Hugio, aka Te Herekeke Herewini, was crowned last night...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF Annual General Meeting 2006
NZAF Board Chair Jeremy Lambert with his partner Romeo (left) and Miss Queenie Aotearoa (right)...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 2 Dec 2005

Backlash bills make bad laws
Historically, backlash bills make bad New Zealand law...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Dec 2004

Media report that a trans woman burglar is sent to a male prison (New Zealand)
Television item (New Zealand)
Close Up At 7, ref: TZP296609.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
One News, ref: TZP296581.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Close Up At 7, ref: TZP296610.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Breakfast, ref: TZP296803.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Breakfast, ref: TZP296801.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television news reports: World AIDS Day and HIV/AIDS in the Pacific (New Zealand)
Interviewee Maire Bopp from the Samoan AIDS Foundation. TV3 news, ref F84528.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
Christians final battle of the line
Christians for Civil Unions have hit back at the fundamentalists who have opposed the Bill with a last-minute hate campaign...
Links: GayNZ.com
Defaming the Duc d'Orleans: Correcting 'Charles II'
Last week, TVNZ's Charles II misrepresented Philippe, duc d'Orleans, depicting him as a brutal bisexual rapist and murderer...
Links: GayNZ.com
Defaming the Duc d'Orleans: Correcting 'Charles II'
Last week, TVNZ's Charles II misrepresented Philippe, duc d'Orleans, depicting him as a brutal bisexual rapist and murderer...
Links: GayNZ.com
Flip-flop Brash under fire
Flip-flopping National leader Don Brash came under heavy fire in Parliament yesterday for his reversed decision to support the Civil Union Bill...
Links: GayNZ.com
Is "The Donald" Doomed?
On the same day that the Leader of the Opposition announced his capitulation to the far right over the Civil Union Bill, the Herald ran the latest opinion poll...
Links: GayNZ.com
MPs CU arguments fly thick and fast
Arguments flew thick and fast this afternoon for and against the proposed Civil Union legislation as it received its second reading...
Links: GayNZ.com
Te Heu Heu's hypocrisy at AIDS function?
National MP Georgina Te Heu Heu has found herself in hot water after apparently turning up at an AIDS Foundation function in Wellington this week wearing a Civil Union Bill supporters badge – she voted against the Bill at its first reading...
Links: GayNZ.com
Youth parties unite to support Civil Unions
While the National Party is poised to almost bloc-vote against the Civil Union Bill, making a mockery of the conscience vote process, its youth wing has joined up with the youth divisions of every other major political party to support the Bill in an unprecedented move...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 2 Dec 2003

Television news report: World AIDS Day is marked internationally (worldwide)
TV3 news, ref: F61163.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
"Acceptance of gays leads to child sex" - Maxim
The acceptance of homosexuality has opened the door for child-adult sex to be sanctioned, says the Maxim Institute in their latest attack on the gay and lesbian community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Closeted men partly fuelling HIV surge
Deeply closeted men living in isolation from any identifiable gay community are partly fuelling the surge in new HIV infections in the South Island, says NZAF gay men's health manager Kerry Price...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 2 Dec 2002

Restraunteur fights to have name suppression lifted
High-profile Auckland bar owner Leo Molloy will fight to unmask the unnamed gay Auckland bar owner facing drug sex charges...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 2 Dec 1999

Television item (New Zealand)
Te Karere, ref: TZP237475.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 2 Dec 1996

Television item (United States of America)
Holmes, ref: TZP177616.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 2 Dec 1995

Te Puna Wai Korero [episode on HIV/AIDS, 1995] (Auckland)
Henare Te Ua interviews Warren Lindberg, Director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, on the latest information on HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1995.
Links: PrideNZ.com
The first Freedom dance party takes place (Christchurch, New Zealand)
The event is held at the Ministry for "lesbians, gays, bisexuals and their friends."
Links: NZ.com

Fri 2 Dec 1988

Gay Football Club (Press, 2 December 1988)
On 2 December 1988, it was reported that a group of Dutch homosexual footballers in Amsterdam have taken the initiative to establish their own football club named FC Gay. The organiser of the club, Gerard van Reijsen, highlighted a significant issue faced by many gay footballers: the inability to openly...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
On Screen (Press, 2 December 1988)
On 2 December 1988, several notable films were highlighted for their unique contributions to cinema. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" premiered at the Savoy Theatre, receiving praise for its intricate portrayal of a love triangle set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia during the 1968 Russian invasion. The film intertwines themes...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 2 Dec 1987

Sons Tell Of Grappling With Intruder After Hallway... (Press, 2 December 1987)
In a District Court hearing on 1 December 1987, two young men, sons of a church pastor, recounted a harrowing experience of grappling with an intruder in their home following the attack on their father, Peter McCallum Morrow, on the morning of 17 September. The intruder, identified as Patrick James...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Study Highlights S.t.d. Risks (Press, 2 December 1987)
A study conducted by Dr Dorothy Baczkowski, a medical geographer, has revealed that homosexual and bisexual men in higher social and economic groups are more prone to contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). This research was based on data from 7,000 patients at Sydney STD clinics. The findings indicated that bisexual...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
The Press Wednesday, December 2, 1987. De Facto... (Press, 2 December 1987)
On 2 December 1987, the Minister of Justice, Mr Palmer, initiated a discussion regarding whether the Matrimonial Property Act should be expanded to include de facto relationships. This proposal aims to ensure that possessions accumulated by couples who live together without marrying would be divided equally in the event of...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Television item (New Zealand)
Today Tonight, ref: TZP44711.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Today Tonight, ref: TZP44710.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 2 Dec 1986

Parties Not Keen For By-election (Press, 2 December 1986)
Political sentiments are being influenced by personal feelings within New Zealand's main parties regarding the health of Invercargill MP Norman Jones, who is currently battling a brain tumour. This goodwill towards Jones is not solely due to his personality, which is often described as crusty, nor his conservative social views,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 2 Dec 1985

Festival Aims To Foster ‘sensible Survival’ (Press, 2 December 1985)
A major national festival, titled "Towards 2000: Personal Renewal and Wider Care," is set to take place in Christchurch from 6 to 9 February 1986. Organised by Robert Hunt, the event aims to foster greater personal awareness, expression, and care among participants. Attracting attendees from across New Zealand, the festival...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Homosexual Law Changes (Press, 2 December 1985)
In a letter published on 2 December 1985, R. J. Van den Brink responds to Mrs Mies Oomen’s advocacy for a referendum regarding homosexual law changes, citing Professor Palmer's book "Unbridled Power". Van den Brink highlights a specific passage from the book which argues against the creation of numerous new...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 2 Dec 1983

A.I.D.S. (Press, 2 December 1983)
In a letter to the editor, Varian J. Wilson expresses concern over the potential spread of the killer condition known as A.1.D.5. (later known as AIDS) in New Zealand. Although a doctor suggests that the disease is unlikely to spread widely in the country due to its higher incidence among...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)
Convicted Killer Executed (Press, 2 December 1983)
On 1 December 1983, Robert Sullivan, a 36-year-old man convicted of murder, was executed in Florida's electric chair after spending a decade on death row. His execution came after he tearfully recited a psalm and expressed gratitude to Pope John Paul II for his efforts to save his life. Sullivan...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 2 Dec 1978

Thorpe Witness Under Fierce Fire (Press, 2 December 1978)
On 2 December 1978, the court proceedings involving former Liberal politician Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott, a former male model, took a dramatic turn as Scott alleged a homosexual affair with Thorpe that dates back to 1961. The courtroom was marked by intense cross-examination led by Thorpe’s lawyer, Sir David...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Mon 2 Dec 1974

Full Frontal Prudery (Press, 2 December 1974)
On 2 December 1974, a series of letters to the editor appeared in "The Press" concerning an earlier article titled "Full frontal prudery." The article had sparked significant debate among readers, with some applauding its satirical approach, while others expressed strong disapproval. One letter, from a writer identified as G....
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 2 Dec 1971

Television current affairs: a look at prostitution in New Zealand (New Zealand)
On Camera, ref TZP86607.
Links: TVNZ

Sat 2 Dec 1967

Homosexual Acts ‘morally Neutral’ (Press, 2 December 1967)
On 1 December 1967, a symposium attended by 90 Episcopalian clergymen in New York discussed the moral implications of homosexual acts. The event, known as Project H, was held at the Cathedral of St John the Divine and was supported by the Episcopal dioceses of New York, Connecticut, Long Island,...
Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 2 Dec 1897

Writer and educator Rewi Alley is born (Canterbury region, New Zealand)
Links: Wikipedia, Te Ara

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