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Thu 21 Dec 2023

  • Opinion: Is the participation of transgender women really the biggest issue facing NZ sport?
    OPINION: Are the Govt's priorities correct in banning trans athletes from sports?...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Sports continue with transgender inclusion despite coalition agreement
    The new government is looking to exclude transgender women from women's sport, but sports bodies have other ideas...
    Links: Stuff
  • Two British teens convicted of murdering transgender girl Brianna Ghey
    New York Times: Prosecutors described the 'deadly influence' the teens had on each other...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Public Funding at Stake for NZ Sports Bodies Over Transgender Inclusion
    Links: Express

Wed 21 Dec 2022

  • Football great Lionel Messi cracks the egg to become most-liked ever on Instagram
    The now-famous picture of Messi at the World Cup final shows him beaming with pride, with the trophy lifted high above his head...
    Links: Stuff
  • Is racial ignorance the secret ingredient to the success of Sam Smith's hit?
    Appropriation or appreciation? Sam Smith's sultry hit has been celebrated by the rainbow community, but others see tired racist tropes...
    Links: Stuff
  • The Great Queer Kiwi Christmas Quiz
    Links: Express
  • Wednesday Star Hunter Doohan Opens Up About His Marriage To Hollywood...
    Links: Express

Tue 21 Dec 2021

  • Rainbow Crossing is launched (Gisborne, New Zealand)
    Links: Gisborne Herald
  • Christmas Gift Ideas With Jay Glam
    Links: Express
  • Christmas Gift Ideas With Jaye Glam
    Links: Express
  • Christmas Recipe: Ben’s Big Meringays!
    Links: Express
  • Queer History: Back To December
    Links: Express

Mon 21 Dec 2020

  • Elliot Page thanks fans for 'greatest gift' of support after coming out as transgender, shares selfie
    Page praised his fans for their continued "love and support" following his transgender announcement on December 1...
    Links: Stuff

Fri 21 Dec 2018

  • ATEED Confirms Funding Pulled from Auckland’s 2019 “Pride Parade”
    Links: Express
  • Next British Census Will Count LGBT People For First Time
    Links: Express
  • Victory For LGBTI Parents as Israeli Court Rules Gay Parents Must...
    Links: Express

Thu 21 Dec 2017

  • Brazilian transgender player debuts in top volleyball league
    BAURU, Brazil — While playing in men's professional volleyball leagues in Europe, heavy-hitting Brazilian player Tiffany Abreu accumulated dozens of trophies...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Mrs Brown's Boys' 'no gay no show' stance to Russian TV
    Mrs Brown's Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll has taken a stand for gay rights against Russia...
    Links: Stuff
  • AAF: Love Me As I Am
    Links: Express

Wed 21 Dec 2016

  • Good Tidings to All This Christmas
    Links: Express
  • Lorde Surprises at New York LGBT+ Fundraiser
    Links: Express
  • Cabinet Varnish?
    New Prime Minister Bill English has announced his new Cabinet...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 21 Dec 2015

  • Slovenia Votes to Repeal Marriage Equality
    Links: Express
  • Tasmania to Apologise For Historic Gay Convictions
    Links: Express
  • First AUS state to apologise for historic convictions
    Tasmania is to expunge historic convictions of consensual sex between men and will become the first Australian state to issue a formal apology to the men and their families...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fronting Up: Pride responds to criticism, pt3
    This is part three of an interview in which Auckland Pride board member Shirley Allan fronts for the board on a series of concerns about the way Pride is governed and it's Festival delivered...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Louisa Wall marries her partner in small ceremony
    Labour MP and sponsor of the Marriage Amendment Act, Louisa Wall, has married her partner Prue in a beautiful ceremony surrounded by family and friends...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Same-sex defacto couples secure the right to adopt
    In a groundbreaking adoption case, an Auckland judge has granted all same-sex couples, whether de facto or married, eligibility to be granted joint adoption orders...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 21 Dec 2014

  • Marriage Equality To Go Ahead in Florida
    Links: Express
  • Was The Salvation Army’s Pro Gay PR Campaign Just Spin?
    Links: Express
  • OUTLine hosting Xmas Day get-together
    OUTLine has organised a Christmas Day gathering in Auckland for people in the 'rainbow family' who would otherwise be alone...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Short Film Sunday: AWOL
    Days before her deployment to Afghanistan, 19-year-old Joey comes home to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas, with big dreams of running away to Canada...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Slam poets coming to Akl Pride Festival
    A special one-off slam poetry night at Auckland Pride Festival will focus on lgbt themes...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 21 Dec 2013

  • Community groups: holiday hours
    Things have wound down for the year at community groups across New Zealand, however there is still plenty of support around if you need it...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Ugandans terrified as anti-gay bill passes
    Uganda's hateful anti-gay bill has been suddenly passed, leaving glbti Ugandans in fear there will be some kind of 'hunt'...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vinegar Hill readying for influx of campers
    Campers are beginning to arrive at the campest campground in the land for the annual Christmas and New Year revelry...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 21 Dec 2012

  • Holiday hardship for many HIV-Positive men
    In the final week before Christmas support organisation Body Positive has seen a steady stream of HIV-positive people come through its doors seeking financial help...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pressure on Govt over trans prison policy rises
    File photo The fallout continues over the jailing of a transgender woman in a men’s prison in Northland, with a vocal transgender rights advocate describing it as a “transphobic insult,” and a justice lobby group stating the woman’s human rights have been breached...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wedding Belles: Nothing sacred here
    You have to laugh at claims we gays will ruin the “sanctity” of marriage when you see some of the shocking themes, dresses and cakes that have been used in weddings around the world...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 21 Dec 2011

  • Carmen's funeral: Thanks and farewell
    In this excerpt from her eulogy delivered at Carmen Rupe's funeral in Sydney yesterday afternoon, longtime friend Jacquie Grant acknowledges the commitment of those who supported and kept company with Carmen as her life drew to a close...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Deeply symbolic pounamu accompanied Carmen
    Carmen in the 1960s In a deeply significant gesture a small pounamu stone was placed in the hand of the late Carmen Rupe before her coffin was closed prior to yesterday's funeral...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 21 Dec 2010

  • Appointment about "management", not leadership
    Michael Stevens A former chair believes the New Zealand AIDS Foundation Trust Board's decision to hire Shaun Robinson as Executive Director shows its vision is about management, something he believes it perceives to be more important than community engagement and leadership...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New Year's Eve Guide!
    New Year's Eve @ Uretiti We can only hope the weather gets better before the 31st so the camp campers can party at Northland's Uretiti beach...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 21 Dec 2009

  • Brokeback Mountain tops decade's LGBT film richlist
    Gay love story Brokeback Mountain was the highest-grossing LGBT-themed film at the box office in all the 2000s, beating the comedic Bruno by US$23 million, reports movie fan website IndieWire...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Condom ad 'inoffensive' important' says watchdog
    Five people have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority over the NZ AIDS Foundation's Get it On 'dancing fingers' condom TV ad, but the watchdog's chief has OK'ed the sexual health message...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay-friendly sign returns after church billboard row
    The 'unholy storm' over St-Matthew-in-the-City Church's 'Mary and Joseph' billboard has led to the return of its much less controversial 'Noah's Ark' themed sign welcoming LGBT church-goers...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The moments that filled us with pride in 2009
    We asked you to tell us your favourite LGBT events and the moments that gave you pride in the past year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 21 Dec 2007

  • Gay Panic law change urgent, minister told
    A proposed law change to remove 'gay panic' as a defense tactic in court is urgently needed, gay networking and lobbying group Rainbow Wellington has advised new Justice minister Annette King...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GayNZ.com's guide to festive fun!
    This time of year always sneaks up on you doesn't it? If you're not sure what's on offer over Christmas...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 21 Dec 2006


  • The spectacular Queen of the Whole Universe pageant will return to Auckland in 2007, and now looks set to hit the capital too – by popular demand...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Air New Zealand plans
    A special ‘party' flight to Sydney Mardi Gras in March 2007 will feature in-flight entertainment by the one-and-only Buckwheat and her friends...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New anti-HIV medication available in NZ
    Another advance in treatment for HIV+ people is to be funded in New Zealand, a move welcomed today by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Viagra and party drugs
    Overseas HIV/AIDS and STI prevention research has shown an increase in polydrug use, possibly related to unsafe sex...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 21 Dec 2005

  • Don't Surrender, Dorothy!
    Annoyed at Disney for pandering to the fundamentalist market? Want to boycott Narnia? How about that perennial child fantasy favourite, The Wizard of Oz? Gay men have had a long term love affair with this perennial children's classic, which we perceive as a metaphor for the gay existential condition...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor
    Perhaps Maddy simply has nothing interesting to say any longer, and that's why parading around in a pink leotard seems vaguely ridiculous for her now...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 21 Dec 2004

  • Alexander the Great: Neither "gay" nor "straight?"
    Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great According to David Halperin, a reknowned American gay classicist, it may be anachronistic to consider Alexander the Great of Macedonia (356-324 BCE) as either "gay" or "straight...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Alexander the Great: Neither "gay" nor "straight?"
    Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great According to David Halperin, a reknowned American gay classicist, it may be anachronistic to consider Alexander the Great of Macedonia (356-324 BCE) as either "gay" or "straight...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Behind THAT letter: Sin, crap science, lies, and a video nasty
    Did a letter signed by Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard and other NZ notables, penned by businessman John Sax, which claimed gays were more likely to abuse and murder their children have any basis in research, even dubious research? A quick glance at the letter, which included gays and lesbians in its sweeping generalisation condemning relationships outside "traditional heterosexual marriage", shows the statistics Sax compiled to prove this do not mention gays and lesbians AT ALL! In his interview with GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • United Future wished "a very gay Xmas"
    ACT leader Rodney Hide has wished the po-faced United Future fundies a very gay Christmas...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 21 Dec 2003

  • It's all natural for kokako
    Native New Zealand birds can be gay too, a Landcare Research scientist said this week...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 21 Dec 1998

Sat 21 Dec 1996

Sat 21 Dec 1991

  • The Dominion Dance is held at the Dominion Hotel (Wellington, New Zealand)
    The dance is organised by Dykes Out Of Debt (DOODS).

Fri 21 Dec 1984

  • Television news report: footage of New Zealand's first AIDS patient (New Zealand)
    The footage appears as part of a year-in-review programme. The man's sister is also interviewed. The footage was first broadcast earlier in 1984. Eyewitness news, ref F60412.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland

Tue 21 Dec 1976

  • Moyle Report Today (Press, 21 December 1976)
    On 21 December 1976, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon announced that the report by Mr Justice North regarding the “Moyle affair” might be released to the public later that day. The report had been received the previous afternoon and discussed by the Cabinet. A copy was also sent to the Leader...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Fri 21 Dec 1973

  • Public Attitudes To Homosexuality (Press, 21 December 1973)
    On 21 December 1973, a letter to the editor in Christchurch raised concerns about what the author describes as visual pollution caused by graffiti related to the Gay Liberation Movement. The writer, A. Bramwell Cook, points to various slogans painted on city walls, such as "Lesbians are lovely" and "Gay...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Wed 21 Dec 1966

  • Legality Nearer (Press, 21 December 1966)
    On 20 December 1966, a bill aimed at legalising homosexual acts between consenting male adults in private made significant progress towards becoming law in the United Kingdom. The House of Commons held an unopposed second reading, indicating a general agreement in principle for this private bill sponsored by Labour M.P....
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

Sat 21 Dec 1912

  • King Of Burglars (Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1912)
    Published on 21 December 1912, the news story details the criminal exploits of James Townsley, a young man known as "The King of Burglars" in South Australia. At 27 years old, Townsley had accumulated a remarkable criminal record, leading to a recent five-year sentence for escaping prison in Adelaide, totaling...
    Links: Papers Past (on PrideNZ.com)

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