On This Day: 25th February

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Tue 25 Feb 2020

Boy asks Pete Buttigieg to help him tell the world he's gay
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has given some emotional advice to a 9-year-old boy who asked how he could tell the world he is gay...
Links: NZ Herald
Mum's heartbreaking letter to gay son
A mother has shared the heartbreaking letter she wrote to her youngest son to apologise for her reaction when he came out as gay...
Links: NZ Herald
Family Bar and Club | Out and About Friday 21 Feb...
Links: Express
Hannah Tamaki Dumped From Dancing With the Stars
Links: Express
What’s On At Pride Whanganui 2020
Links: Express
WOOF! The Auckland Rainbow Dog Show
Links: Express

Mon 25 Feb 2019

Minister for Internal Affairs Tracey Martin defers the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Bill (New Zealand)
The Minister wanted to give people more opportunities to submit on the proposed changes as well as seek clarification on legal issues relating to gender self-identification.
Links: NZ Herald
Bill making it easier for trans people to update birth certificate deferred
A bill that would make it easier for trans people to change to change their gender on birth certificates had been deferred due to poor public consultation and legal concerns...
Links: NZ Herald
Lee Suckling: Links to sexuality and weight found in new study
Lee Suckling shares his own struggle with an eating disorder and draws on personal experience to explain what he believes is behind new findings...
Links: NZ Herald
Q + A - Monday February 25
A law change working its way through Parliament will make it easier for people to change genders on their birth certificate...
Links: Scoop
Conversion Therapy Ban Called For By Minister of Health in Germany
Links: Express
Woof, Woof, Woof! Meet the Dog’s and the Brains Behind Woof...
Links: Express

Sun 25 Feb 2018

Rainbow elders panel (2018) (17-19 Tory Street, Wellington)
Audio from the Rainbow elders panel, held during Wellingtons Pride festival at 19 Tory Street on 25 February 2018
Features: Amanduh la Whore, Colin Daley, Georgina Beyer, Kay Jones, Maggie Shippam, Mani Bruce Mitchell, Prue Hyman, Rosie Leadbitter
Links: PrideNZ.com
Aussie call for Commonwealth Games ban on transgender weightlifter 'game playing'
New Zealand sporting bigwigs are backing Kiwi transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, after the boss of Australian weightlifting called for her to be banned from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games...
Links: Stuff
Mystery deepens in serial killer probe after six dismembered bodies found
The mystery deepened this week in the case of Bruce McArthur, the Canadian man charged with killing several middle-aged men linked to Toronto's Gay Village and burying dismembered body parts in landscape planters...
Links: Stuff
Out in the Park draws 10,000-plus to celebrate start of Wellington Pride Festival
It started when being gay was illegal, now it's drawing crowds of more than 10,000 people who enjoy hanging out, chilling out, and just living out...
Links: Stuff
TVNZ reporter ties the knot in 'big gay Indian wedding'
TV newsman Arrun Soma has married his long-term partner in what he described as a "big gay Indian wedding" in Wellington on Saturday...
Links: Stuff

Thu 25 Feb 2016

Sian Torrington - We Dont Have To Be The Building (Wellington)
Sian talks about the art project We Dont Have To Be The Building.
Features: Sian Torrington
Links: PrideNZ.com
Valentine and Valentine:
Five same-sex love letters from history Throughout history love letters have been sent between some our most famous writers and their same-sex admirers, from Oscar Wilde to Virgina Woolf, Alexander Lowë takes a look at those romantic words penned...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Feb 2015

Foodie Bites – Turkish Treats
Links: Express
Out In The Park to be Held on 28th – 29th...
Links: Express
Two Dads Able to Make a Baby? It May Now be...
Links: Express
Wall in Thailand for lgbti rights dialogue
Louisa Wall (right) with Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse at Saturday's Auckland Pride Parade Louisa Wall is in Thailand taking part in a regional discussion on lgbti rights...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Feb 2014

Conan McKegg profile (Wellington)
Conan McKegg talks about writing for the screen and working on the draft script for House of Memories
Features: Conan McKegg
Links: PrideNZ.com
Why I marched in Pride
NZ Falcon Mike Horrell has kindly shared his touching explanation of why he decided to march in the Auckland Pride Parade...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Feb 2013

Men Like Us released on DVD/for download
A documentary which tells the funny, heart-breaking and inspiring stories of nine gay New Zealand men has been released on DVD and for digital download...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Feb 2012

The Queer Avengers take on transphobia
The Queer Avengers led a protest against an anti-trans opinion piece in the Dominion Post at the Fairfax offices in Wellington...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Feb 2011

Young Indian men outed in TV sting
A young Indian man has attempted suicide after his parents saw him outed on an Indian TV news report broadcast in Hyderabad...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Feb 2010

Review: Auckland's OurFest 2010
The year is 2010...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Feb 2009

Ron Brown murder trial set for June
Hungarian tourist Ferdinand Ambach, accused of killing of gay Onehunga man Ron Brown in December 2007, will face a jury trial at Auckland's High Court, beginning on Monday 22 June...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Feb 2008

Sydney's Archbishop opposes Civil Unions
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell has again spoken out against moves towards Civil Unions in Australia, saying he would strongly oppose any proposal that equates homosexuality with with marriage of a man and a woman...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Feb 2007

Television news report: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh claims to have found a cure for HIV/AIDS
TV3 news, ref F97881.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
Who will MC at the Wellington Fair?
There are some very big shoes to fill at Wellington's 22nd Annual Gay and Lesbian Fair, taking place at the end of the Newtown Festival on Saturday 10th March at Newtown School...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Feb 2006

Tamahori sentenced for drag
New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori has been sentenced after police arrested him in Hollywood dressed in drag on charges of prostitution and loitering...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Feb 2005

UniQ Otago's Nathan Brown
Nathan Brown The face of the AIDS Foundation's "Negative Role Model" campaign, Nathan is a tireless worker for the GLBT communities in Otago...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Feb 2003

Hundreds of haircuts benefit Herne Bay House
304 haircuts donated by twenty two Auckland hair salons have raised over $24,000 for Herne Bay House...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Feb 1987

Television news report: AIDS causes a review of health requirements for potential immigrants (New Zealand)
Interviewee Kerry Burke. 6.30pm news, ref F92342.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

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