Historical Events in October
| Oct 1955 | Daughters of Bilitis is formed in San Francisco, United States Info It was the first lesbian rights organization in the United States |
| Oct 1977 | National Gay Rights Coalition Conference |
| Oct 1988 | National hui for Maori Lesbian's is held |
| Oct 1992 | Lesbian, Gay and Christian national conference is held Info Theme: Sexism and heterosexism |
| Oct 1995 | Queer News Aotearoa online newsletter begins Info |
| 1 Oct 1929 | Leonard Hollobon is arrested and charged with indecently assaulting a male (Norris Davey) Info Davey is also charged. He later testifies against Hollobon |
| 3 Oct 2011 | A couple's car is targetted in an ongoing series of hate crimes at Mangawhai Heads Info |
| 4 Oct 1980 | The first Lesbian Librarians' Week is held in Wellington and Christchurch |
| 5 Oct 1963 | James Courage (writer) dies Info |
| 5 Oct 1991 | First public unveiling of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt, Auckland Info |
| 6 Oct 1874 | Ursula Bethell (poet) is born Info |
| 6 Oct 1893 | New Zealand's law is broadened to outlaw any sexual activity between men Info Penalties include life imprisonment, hard labour and flogging (Criminal Code Act 1893) |
| 6 Oct 1920 | Eugenia Falleni (a.k.a Harry Crawford) is found guilty of murdering Annie Birkett Info Alt Info Falleni was convicted and condemned to death, but her sentence was commuted to detainment at the Governor's Pleasure |
| 7 Oct 1952 | Marilyn Waring (politician, academic) is born Info |
| 10 Oct 1936 | Carmen Rupe (performer) is born Info |
| 10 Oct 1980 | 200 women take part in a lesbian march through Wellington It was followed by a Lesbian Liberation Dance attended by 300 |
| 12 Oct 1988 | Matthew Shepard is killed in Wyoming, United States |
| 12 Oct 1988 | New Zealand Navy announces its gay-friendly policy |
| 12 Oct 1996 | Tim Barnett (Labour), who is openly gay, is elected in the first MMP General Election |
| 14 Oct 1888 | Katherine Mansfield (writer) is born Info Alt Info (born Kathleen Beauchamp) |
| 14 Oct 1989 | Rodney Kennedy (artist) dies Info |
| 16 Oct 1854 | Oscar Wilde (writer) is born Info |
| 19 Oct 2011 | Willie Ahsee is found guilty of the manslaughter of Denis Phillips Info Alt Info |
| 20 Oct 1976 | National Gay Rights Coalition is formed The coalition comes out of the fifth National Gay and Lesbian Conference held in Wellington |
| 20 Oct 2011 | Around 200 people march on parliament campaigning for gay marriage and adoption Info Alt Info The march was part of the LegaliseLove campaign |
| 21 Oct 1995 | Georgina Beyer is elected Mayor of Carterton Beyer became the world's first transexual mayor |
| 28 Oct 1835 | Maori Declaration of Independence is signed |
| 28 Oct 1997 | Richard Leonard is convicted of killing Stephen Dempsey with a crossbow in 1994 |
| 29 Oct 1929 | Norris Davey is convicted of indecent assault on a male Info Soon after Davey changes his name to Frank Sargeson |
| 30 Oct 1929 | Leonard Hollobon is sentenced to five years reformative detention Info Hollobon pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent assault on males |
| 31 Oct 1988 | Peter Cuthbert dies Info Peter is remembered in the first panel of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt |
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