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Thu 14 Dec 2023

  • The Glamaphones perform Our Youngest Star (St Andrew's on the Terrace)
    The Glamaphones perform the newly commissioned work: Our Youngest Star
    Features: The Glamaphones
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Iconic Avondale spider looking for new home
    It's taken pride of place towering above Avondale's main street for more than 20 years...
    Links: RNZ
  • Rotorua Stalwart Scoops Theatre Award
    Links: Express

Wed 14 Dec 2022

  • Prince Harry and Meghan doco: Friend rejects Kate hug claim and aides tune in
    'Kate's a big hugger,' a friend has insisted while Palace aids tune into Netflix doco...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Rainbow youth survey finds Māori face added disparities, including those in state care
    The proportion of Māori participants in state care was twice as high as that of Pākehā...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Storm clouds and rainbows: How it really feels to raise a transgender child
    OPINION: Much is said about transgender children and their parents, but seldom do we hear what this experience feels like from the inside...
    Links: Stuff
  • Two decades on, Steve Williams says he cried when Tiger Woods played in NZ Open
    The world No1's former caddie admits he was overcome by pride in helping to get Woods to play at his home course at Paraparaumu Beach...
    Links: Stuff

Tue 14 Dec 2021

  • Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
    Siouxsie joins Kathryn with an update on Omicron and vaccines for children...
    Links: RNZ
  • And Just Like That… You Can Sip With SJP On Screen
    Links: Express
  • UK MPs Call For A Public Inquiry Into Institutional Homophobia Within...
    Links: Express

Mon 14 Dec 2020

  • The NZ Blood Service relaxes restrictions on blood donation (New Zealand)
    The period for deferral for gay men is reduced from 12-months to 3-months. The same change also applies to sex workers who want to donate blood.
    Links: NZ Blood Service
  • Blood donation changes allow more gay men to give
    The NZ Blood Service has made sweeping changes to the way it screens donors for the risk of HIV, bringing us in line with a number of overseas countries...
    Links: RNZ
  • Blood donation rule change will allow more gay, bisexual men to give
    The wait time for many wanting to give blood will be relaxed, but one man still barred from donating says "I still see it as discrimination"...
    Links: Stuff
  • NZ Blood make changes to donor criteria for male to male sex, and sex workers
    The blood deferral period for men who have had sex with other men has been reduced from 12 months to just three months today...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Ellen DeGeneres Tests Positive for Covid-19
    Links: Express
  • Homophobic US Lawmaker Who Resigned For Making Anti-Gay Slurs Is Re-Elected
    Links: Express
  • New Zealand’s ‘Gay Blood Ban’ Reduced to Three Months
    Links: Express

Sat 14 Dec 2019

  • Painting of a 'gay' Emiliano Zapata in a pink sombrero and heels divides Mexico
    Emiliano Zapata is a symbol of the Mexican revolution, but a painting of him naked and in high heels has caused uproar...
    Links: Stuff
  • Rugby: Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW accept complaint against Israel Folau
    Israel Folau's legal battles may not be over just yet after the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW accepted a complaint from a gay rights activist who has accused the former rugby star of "homosexuality vilification"...
    Links: NZ Herald

Fri 14 Dec 2018

  • Auckland Men told to “Go Back to The Gas Chamber” in...
    Links: Express
  • From Infomercial Queen to Pop Princess: express Has A Chat With...
    Links: Express

Thu 14 Dec 2017

  • Men with older brothers more likely to be gay, study finds
    Having a son triggers a physical reaction in a mother – making it more likely later boys will grow up to be gay, a study suggests...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Popular gay Kiwi podcast awarded web series funding
    • The Male Gayz premieres on TVNZ OnDemand in the first half of 2018 as part of their New Blood content initiative...
    Links: Scoop
  • Pop Maverick Halsey is Heading to Our Shores
    Links: Express

Wed 14 Dec 2016

  • General Manager Operations of NZAF Leaves
    Links: Express
  • New PM Revises Same-Sex Marriage Position
    Links: Express
  • South Australia Celebrates While Victoria Disappoints on Trans Laws
    Links: Express
  • Advocacy and Activism: Michael Stevens
    As we fight for a future free from oppression, activism and advocacy are the building blocks of our communities...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hamilton venue to start 'staged opening' this Sat.
    Hamilton's new glbti nightclub, Bralais, is preparing for its New Year's Eve grand opening by opening for a limited number of patrons this Saturday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Individual historical convictions may be quashed
    The Government may be about to create a process by which gay men convicted of having homosexual sex before it was decriminalised can have their convictions wiped from the record...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Law Reform era to be re-told Thursday night
    A wide range of speakers will tomorrow night relate their experiences of the era of Homosexual Law Reform three decades ago, at a function being held in Auckland tomorrow evening...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 14 Dec 2015

  • Anglican Clergyman Banned After Same Sex Union
    Links: Express
  • Auckland Pride Party Tickets Now on Sale
    Links: Express
  • Fran Wilde to Retire From Politics
    Links: Express
  • Calls for AUS to recognise overseas gay marriages
    Advocates have called on the federal government of Australia to eliminate the patchwork of recognition for overseas same-sex marriages by recognising them nationally...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fran Wilde retires from local politics
    LGBTI equality campaigner and sponsor of the Homosexual Law Reform Act Fran Wilde, is leaving local politics to take up a job determining the pay rate for MPs and judges...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Open Letter to Assembly Council of the NZ Baptist movement
    Dear Leaders, I’m writing this open letter to you as the leaders of the NZ Baptist movement...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pot Luck crowdfunding campaign nears end
    Pot Luck are in the final days of crowdfunding and need your help to make their target...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 14 Dec 2014

  • “Nobody is Born Gay” Billboard Model Reveals he Actually Was Born...
    Links: Express
  • 2015 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Program Launched
    Links: Express
  • 'Benjy the gay bull' off to sanctuary
    Benjy 'the gay bull' will arrive at his new home in an animal sanctuary this weekend...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rally canned, but campaign continues
    This morning’s planned rally against homophobia has been cancelled due to the rain and wind hammering Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Short Film Sunday: Beautiful By Night
    A documentary following three older drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie's Lounge in San Francisco's Tenderloin...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 Dec 2013

  • Fears for lesbian deported back to Uganda
    A Ugandan lesbian who was sexually abused by her own uncle has been deported back to her home country by the UK...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New site for Wellington's School's Out
    Wellington youth group School's Out has a brand spanking new website of its own...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sunday a "Day of Rage" over Indian law
    A "Global Day of Rage" will be held on Sunday in response to India’s moves to put glbti people back in the closet...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The body image issue: A therapist responds
    Paul Letham A month ago, PhD student Paul Kramer wrote an open letter to the current Mr Gay World, Auckland’s Chris Olwage, constructively criticising what he saw as the banality and needlessness of the Mr Gay World competition...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The body image issue: A therapist responds
    Paul Letham A month ago, PhD student Paul Kramer wrote an open letter to the current Mr Gay World, Auckland’s Chris Olwage, constructively criticising what he saw as the banality and needlessness of the Mr Gay World competition...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 14 Dec 2012

  • Nate (b) - Q12 (Wellington)
    Nate talks about being young and transgender in 2012
    Features: Nate
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Any Day Now trailer
    To be released in the NZ in 2013, Any Day Now features Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt in the story of a gay couple in the 70s fighting to keep custody of a disabled teenager...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cottrell murder trial: defence not calling witnesses
    Phillip Cottrell The defence for the two men accused of murdering gay Wellington man Phillip Cottrell is not calling any witnesses, and the jury will retire early next week...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hot shots sought for Wellington tennis tournament
    Tennis players of all abilities, gender identities and sexualities are invited to participate in the inaugural Hot Shots Tennis Tournament to be held in Wellington on the 26th and 27th of January...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marriage Equality: Irrelevant Objection?
    They won't get married in a fundamentalist church...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out in the Square weekend will be fully loaded
    Out in the Square Wellington’s Out in the Square will be part of a full weekend of events, which will include a massive after party, a pool party and a film screening...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Turia to leave mixed legacy on GLBT issues
    Tariana Turia Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia will retire from Parliament on a much more positive note when it comes to GLBT issues, where she appears to have evolved over time...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vote puts Uruguay on clear path to marriage equality
    Uruguay's lower house of Congress has approved a law making all marriages equal, by a wide margin...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Your submissions: Grey Lynn dad
    We are sharing some of the thousands of submissions being made for marriage equality...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Your submissions: Grey Lynn dad
    We are sharing some of the thousands of submissions being made for marriage equality...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 14 Dec 2011

  • "1.5" and 2nd generation glbts sought for doco
    The creators of a new documentary series are looking for 1...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Goin' Bush Part 1: The Tent
    So my fiancée bought a tent...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hague and Logie to share Rainbow portfolio
    Gay Green MPs Kevin Hague and Jan Logie will share the Rainbow portfolio in the party's 14-strong caucus for the next term...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZAF Health Services director resigns
    Eamonn Smythe A third high-level staffer has resigned from the NZ AIDS Foundation, with Eamonn Smythe leaving "to pursue career opportunities...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Otter's passion and commitment praised at farewell
    Wayne Otter listens to to one of the many speeched of praise...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Police speaking with teen over Cottrell's death
    Wellington Police have located the teenager they wished to speak to in connection to their investigation into the death of 43-year-old Radio New Zealand employee Phillip Cottrell...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Two teens charged with Cottrell's murder
    Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of gay Wellington journalist Phillip Cottrell...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 14 Dec 2010

  • Confessions of a Drag Queen (Wellington)
    Ricky Burjac talks about Confessions of a Drag Queen.
    Features: Ricky Burjac
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • A word with Louisa Wall
    Louisa Wall It's a pretty awesome week to be Louisa Wall...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • A word with Louisa Wall
    Louisa Wall It's a pretty awesome week to be Louisa Wall...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay football fans urged to forgo sex
    The decision to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has prompted the head of football's ruling body to warn gay fans who attend not to have sex in the Gulf State, where homosexuality is illegal...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Lily Tomlin and Armistead Maupin for Mardi Gras
    Lily Tomlin Actress Lily Tomlin and author Armistead Maupin are among the special guests who will take part in Sydney's Mardi Gras Festival in 2011...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Men allegedly order "gay" pair out of town
    Two North Otago men have been accused of a hate crime after allegedly kidnapping two men they wrongly believed were gay and ordering them out of town...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • O'Brien auctions tails and guitar for Christchurch
    Richard O'Brien Richard O'Brien has donated his custom made Gaultier coat tails and Fender guitar to the Red Cross Earthquake Appeal for Christchurch...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • On Ponsonby Rd? Really?
    Dan Eichblatt's post about the homophobic, hateful abuse and threats of violence he and his boyfriend were subjected to on Ponsonby Rd this weekend has whipped up a storm of outrage on Facebook...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Who'll be next?
    Will Singapore or Lebanon become the next state to decriminalise male homosexuality? In 2004, I last reported on Singapore's courageous LGBT communities...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 14 Dec 2009

  • How safe are Otago's schools for LGBT students?
    "At the conclusion of the focus group held with queer students, participants were asked which of the issues discussed is the most important issue for queer students at Otago high schools...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Permanent name suppression for Mills complainants
    The fourteen young people who came forward to the police in the Glenn Mills HIV case have been granted permanent name suppression...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Two female albatrosses wait for their chick
    We've had a few reports of gay penguin couples around the South Island over the years, but could we now have lesbian albatrosses? Yes your majesty: A royal albatross with a chick Two female royal albatrosses are incubating an egg, in an unusual pairing at Taiaroa Head's albatross colony near Dunedin, says the Otago Daily Times...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 14 Dec 2008

  • Brazil: Police hunt serial killer of gay men
    Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo believe the murders of thirteen men over eighteen months in a suburban park could be the work of a serial killer dubbed the "Rainbow maniac"...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 14 Dec 2007

  • Morocco: Six men face jail for gay sex
    Criminal verdicts in Morocco against six men sentenced to prison for homosexual conduct should be set aside and the men released an international human rights organization said on Wednesday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney's new plan to save Oxford Street
    The City of Sydney is planning to give Oxford Street back to gays, artists and older people after endorsing a new cultural strategy for the strip and its surrounding area this week...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 14 Dec 2006

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP329559.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Beyer to leave Parliament in February
    10:00AM: Labour's transgender MP Georgina Beyer will resign in February, reports the New Zealand Herald...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Broadcaster's naked pageant profit promise
    A radio presenter has promised to walk down a busy shopping street stark naked - if organisors of this year's Queen of the Whole Universe fundraising pageant can prove they raised ‘more than $10,000' for the AIDS Foundation...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Durex needs Kiwi condom testers
    Kiwis wanting to indulge in some extra curricular activity this summer can apply to be a Durex condom tester...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • National pays
    Charles Chauvel In most fields, formal legal equality for gay and lesbian people now exists in New Zealand...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZers raised almost $60K on AIDS Day
    Close to $60,000 has been raised for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation at World AIDS Day events and collections around the country...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 14 Dec 2005

  • New NZAF board appointments
    Wellington-based Grant Robertson has been successful in filling one of the two vacancies on the board of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New Zealand's gay priests: celibate as required?
    Michael Bancroft doesn't describe himself as a "former Catholic priest", rather "a priest who is no longer active in the ministry"...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 14 Dec 2004

  • Condom complacency - the 2004 GAPSS results
    "Condom use is still generally high among an Auckland sample of men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), but the continuing proportion of men who have sometimes not used a condom for anal sex is enough to propel the HIV epidemic, rather than stop it," say researchers in the 2004 GAPSS (Gay Auckland Periodic Sex Survey)...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Destiny motherchurch in copycat hate march
    Brian Tamaki's 'spiritual father' in the United States has taken his television church on an 'Enough is Enough'-style hate march against gay marriage...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay teens say no to condoms
    Teenagers and young men are putting their lives at risk and saying no to condoms in vastly increased numbers...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 14 Dec 2003

  • Gay-friendly bishop's Christmas inclusion
    We need to enter into the experience of others in order to have compassion for our fellow human beings, says the Anglican Dean of Auckland, Richard Randerson...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Homophobe Peters worst-behaved MP
    NZ First leader Winston Peters is this year's worst-behaved MP, according to an annual register kept by United Future leader Peter Dunne...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 14 Dec 1996

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Out There, ref: TZP179771.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Teaser, a pre-Freedom dance party is held (Christchurch, New Zealand)
    The party is held at Bar Particular on 14 December 1996.
    Links: NZ.com

Wed 14 Dec 1994

Mon 14 Dec 1992

Sat 14 Dec 1991

  • The Bring and Buy lesbian fair is held (Wellington, New Zealand)

Fri 14 Dec 1990

  • Television news report: working with AIDS babies in Romania (New Zealand)
    Interviewee Robyn Beckerleg. Holmes, ref F102458.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Wed 14 Dec 1988

Fri 14 Dec 1984

  • Television: Blood Foundation announces campaign to prevent spread of AIDS (New Zealand)
    ref: TZP132460.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 14 Dec 1979

  • Gays Behind New Mayor (Press, 14 December 1979)
    In a historic election, San Francisco has appointed its first female Mayor, Dianne Feinstein, marking a significant moment in the city's political landscape. Feinstein, a Democratic Party candidate aged 46, garnered support from the city's prominent homosexual community, which comprises approximately 175,000 individuals, or 25% of the city’s population. This...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Thu 14 Dec 1978

  • Thorpe For Trial (Press, 14 December 1978)
    On 14 December 1978, the Minehead Magistrate's Court in England committed Jeremy Thorpe, a prominent Liberal politician and former leader of the Liberal Party, for trial on serious charges related to an alleged conspiracy to murder his former homosexual lover, Norman Scott. Thorpe, who is 49 years old, along with...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 14 Dec 1977

  • The Bishops And The Sexual Revolution (Press, 14 December 1977)
    On 14 December 1977, Roman Catholic bishops in the United States reaffirmed their belief that sexual intercourse is morally acceptable only within marriage and always wrong outside it. This reaffirmation occurred during a meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, where they endorsed a section of a new national...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Tue 14 Dec 1971

  • Transvestite Contest (Press, 14 December 1971)
    In December 1971, Thailand hosted what is believed to be the world's first international transvestite beauty contest in the provincial capital of Khonkhaen, located approximately 380 miles north of Bangkok. In Thai culture, transvestites, referred to as "kratoeys," are not looked down upon but are instead accepted as a unique...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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