On This Day: 25th October

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Thu 25 Oct 2018

Five Reasons to Hit Honolulu
Links: Express
Married at First Sight’s Samuel Levi
Links: Express
Netflix Releases Trailer for New Animated Drag Queen Series: Super Drags
Links: Express

Tue 25 Oct 2016

Long Weekend Vibes at Family
Links: Express
NZAF to Honour New Life Members
Links: Express
Soaring Times at Eagle
Links: Express
Young trans guy crowned new Mr Gay Wellington
The new Mr Gay Wellington has been crowned and is believed to be the first trans person to win a Mr Gay title in the country...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Oct 2015

Academy Cinema Playing Gayby Baby in November
Links: Express
Body Positive Organise “Mini Pride” to Mark World AIDS Day
Links: Express
Russian MPs Want Jail Terms For Gays Who Come Out
Links: Express
The Gays in Shorts!
Links: Express
The lost $20,000 Outgames legacy
You can read yesterday's precursor to this feature, Inside the Ak Outgames fiasco, here...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2014

Australian Labor Leader Makes Strong Stand for GLBT Equality at Australian...
Links: Express
Breaking Free – Eagle Bar
Links: Express
Opening Party – Shanghai Lil’s
Links: Express
Party Rocking – Family Bar and Club
Links: Express
Snort – Basement Theatre
Links: Express
Mika to MC 'Big Splash' GABA auction
Mika will host the annual fundraiser The annual GABA fundraising auction will embrace its move to the waterfront Hilton with a ‘Big Splash’ theme, and Mika as the Master of Ceremonies...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Oct 2013

Your Labour Weekend guide
All Weekend Love Life Fono 5 @ Waipapa Marae, Auckland The fifth Love Life Fono will bring Pacific GLBTI and MVPFAFF people together at Auckland University’s Waipapa Marae for a weekend of bonding and talking safe sex...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Oct 2012

Preacher's gay rights speech
A video of a preacher giving a speech on gay rights to a city council meeting in the US has gone viral thanks to his subversive take on the issue...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Oct 2011

Social trends undermining HIV awareness progress
Nathan Lachowsky In an ironic and dangerous twist of fate improvements in HIV awareness and education brought about by advances such as Homosexual Law Reform appear to have been considerably negated by subsequent social changes and improved treatments...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Oct 2010

Paper rejects gay couple's marriage notice
A New Hampshire newspaper is refusing to print gay wedding announcements, despite the fact same-sex marriage is legal in the US state...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 25 Oct 2009

Gay school fraudster jailed for a year
The gay former principal of Huntly West Primary School has been jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to fraud and theft...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2008

Rural areas risky for gays, says Beyer
Transgender former MP and Mayor of Carterton Georgina Beyer says the Wairarapa is conservative and – like many rural provincial areas – "are not entirely safe places for out gay people...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 25 Oct 2007

Waipouri murder trial begins late November
Two young Palmerston North men will stand trial in front of a jury in November for the murder of gay man Stanley Waipouri late last year...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 25 Oct 2006

Nunsploitation!
‘Nunsploitation' was a product of the sixties...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 25 Oct 2005

Television news reports: HIV/AIDS is high on the agenda at the Pacific Forum
(New Zealand)
One news, ref F89556 and TV3 news, ref F89558.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision (1)
HIV/AIDS Conference: "Wall of silence" helping spread HIV in Pacific
With a thinly-veiled call for Pacific nations to address issues of prejudice and intolerance, the head of the United Nations AIDS initiative in the Pacific Region today helped launch the first Pan-Pacific HIV/AIDS conference...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 25 Oct 2004

HIV educator and activist Matt Whyte dies
(New Zealand)
Links: GayNZ.com
All go at Vinegar Hill
Damage from the floods that devastated the popular gay campsite Vinegar Hill in the Manawatu district earlier this year has been mostly repaired in time for this year's festivities...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 25 Oct 2003

Peter Brown's homophobic logic
We ask NZ First deputy leader Peter Brown to elaborate on his recent attack on gay chief censor Bill Hastings, and take a look at who might be backing him up...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Oct 2002

Carmen inspired composition debuts in WTG and AKL
Wellington Drag Diva Carmen is the inspiration for a new Jack Body work, Carmen Dances, performed by the NZSO in Wellington tonight and at the Auckland Town Hall next Friday night...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 25 Oct 1991

Television news report: accident victim was HIV positive - or was he
(New Zealand)
Interviewees include Brian Persen, Peter Bradley, Phil Wright and Warren Lindberg. Holmes, ref F107530.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

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