On This Day: 7th April

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Tue 7 Apr 2020

Allies in Self-Isolation: Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye
Links: Express
Exclusive: Departing Police Commissioner Mike Bush “Proud” of Police Relationship with...
Links: Express
Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: Aaron Von Phillippe
Links: Express
Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: Scotty and Mal
Links: Express
Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: The Team at OUTLine
Links: Express
NZ Keeps Gay Blood Donation Laws at 12 Months
Links: Express
UK Support Organisation Urges LGBTI+ Youth To Delay Coming-Out During Lockdown
Links: Express

Sun 7 Apr 2019

Historian Gavin McLean dies (Wellington, New Zealand)
America's first gay president? The rising Democrat candidate aiming to make history
Peter Buttigieg is not like any other US presidential candidate – in part, if not exclusively, because he is gay...
Links: Stuff
Is Ariana Grande bisexual? Here's why that question is problematic
OPINION: We don't need to put LGBTQ labels on celebs who don't feel the need to label themselves...
Links: Stuff
The Baileys cast as Coronation Street's first black family
The Baileys will also put a spotlight on homophobia in sport...
Links: Stuff
The Baileys cast as Coronation Street's first black family
The Baileys will also put a spotlight on homophobia in sport...
Links: Stuff
Gay Conversion Therapy App Finally Removed From Google’s Play Store
Links: Express
The Night They Arrested a Female Impersonator on K Road
Links: Express

Fri 7 Apr 2017

Australian MP Believes LGBT+ People Can ‘Become’ Straight
Links: Express
Barry Manilow Breaks Silence on His Sexuality
Links: Express
Dutch Men Hold Hands in Solidarity with Attacked Gay Couple
Links: Express
Gay Banker Fired After Posting Photos of Engagement To Fiancé
Links: Express
Review: Lincoln in the Bardo
At first sight, this might seem an odd place to review a brilliant piece of experimental fiction, so some explanation is in order...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2016

Canterbury Queer Youth Support Group Q-Topia Seeks New Board
Links: Express
For Italian Design Connoisseurs
Links: Express
GABA Charitable Trust Gifts Over $10,000 to Community Groups
Links: Express
Overwhelming Favour for GABA Name Change
Links: Express
The Simpsons Praised For Mr Smithers’ Understated Coming Out Episode
Links: Express
What Went Wrong in Australia?
What can New Zealand LGBTI community welfare and youth organisations learn from the debacle against Safe Schools in Australia? 1...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 7 Apr 2015

Easter at Family
Links: Express
Out in The (Car)Park Wellington
Links: Express
Trailer: Bessie
Queen Latifah stars in an upcoming HBO biopic about jazz singer Bessie Smith, who proudly loved both women and men...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2014

Standing up to Craig
We asked two of our Pasifika community members to respond to Colin Craig's homophobic rally in South Auckland, and his claim ALL Pasifika people “reject” marriage equality...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 7 Apr 2013

Robin Duff profile (Auckland)
Robin Duff talks about many of the activist groups he was involved with in the 1970s and being the first openly gay man in New Zealand to stand for Parliament.
Features: Robin Duff
Links: PrideNZ.com
Why Mugabe's not welcome
A visit from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, thankfully, seems unlikely...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2011

Wall ready to get back in the game
Louisa Wall (right) with Labour MP Maryan Street at the Big Gay Out After a couple of weeks waiting on the sidelines, Louisa Wall is about to be back in the game...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 7 Apr 2010

Single tournament will strengthen communities
The co-chair of the AsiaPacific Outgames believes the decision to host just one major global gay sports tournament from 2018 will bring more unity to gay sporting communities...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 7 Apr 2009

Russian gay event promoters found guilty
Two Russian gay activists have been found guilty of 'promoting homosexuality to minors' and fined 1,500 rubles (NZ$76) each...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2008

Wellington's gay geeks are invited to dinner
A get-together for both male and female 'gay geeks' in Wellington will be an opportunity to "embrace your inner geekdom" by meeting other gay geeks and putting faces to their internet nicknames...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 7 Apr 2007

Disney Fairy Tale Weddings for gay unions
The Walt Disney Co...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 7 Apr 2006

Freedom! The day our gay world changed
AN INVITATION In mid-1986, after much acrimonious debate the NZ Parliament voted to end hundreds of years of persecution of homosexual men...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 7 Apr 2005

Tamihere: Homosexuality a lifestyle choice
Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice that he wouldn't want his two young sons to make, says Labour MP John Tamihere, who has apologised but not backed away from a series of homophobic statements made in an interview to a fundamentalist Christian journalist...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 7 Apr 2003

Bowling organisation hands out profits
$14,000 proceeds from last October's International Gay Bowling Tournament, held in Auckland, have been distributed mostly to gay organisations...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 7 Apr 1991

Television current affairs: documentary about a sex worker who is HIV+ (Australia)
60 minutes, ref F103607.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Mon 7 Apr 1980

Television: National Gay Rights Coalition (NGRC) conference in Dunedin (Dunedin, New Zealand)
ref: TZP125022.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 7 Apr 1970

Composer Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears tour New Zealand (New Zealand)
The visit was part of a tour to generate money for the rebuilding of the concert hall at The Maltings.
Links: Music Web

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