On This Day: 29th November

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Sun 29 Nov 2020

AIDS concerns highlighted in PNG
A health agency in Papua New Guinea wants people to be clear that AIDS is not over in PNG...
Links: RNZ
Dateline Pacific for 30 November 2020
RSE workers will be guaranteed a living wage in new border exemption; PNG health agency goes virtual on World Aids Day; Tonga youth NGO hopes to end violent school rivalries...
Links: RNZ
PNG health agency goes virtual on World Aids Day
Papua New Guinea has had by far the worst experience with HIV in the Pacific, with sufferers into the hundreds of thousands ...
Links: RNZ
Winning a title through transition
The first transgender contestant to compete in the Miss New Zealand pageant talks to Kadambari Raghukumar about her journey with identity, gender reassignment and winning the Miss Intercontinental NZ title...
Links: RNZ

Fri 29 Nov 2019

Professor recognised for 50 years of research into gay men’s health
United States-based Palmerston North man Michael Ross has dedicated his life's work to advancing understanding about gay men's rights and sexual health...
Links: Stuff
AUSTRALIAN STATE OF QUEENSLAND TO BAN CONVERSION THERAPY
Links: Express

Thu 29 Nov 2018

Kidnap fears fade as India's only transgender political candidate reappears
Chandramukhi Muvvala, the only transgender candidate in upcoming state elections, found safe but `disoriented'...
Links: RNZ
Louisa Wall: Trans exclusionary stance dispiriting
COMMENT: Given her journalist background, it is disappointing that Rachel Stewart did not use those skills to look at the genesis of TERF as an acronym for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists...
Links: NZ Herald
UN Secretary-General Message for World AIDS Day
Thirty years after the first World AIDS Day, the response to HIV stands at a crossroads...
Links: Scoop

Wed 29 Nov 2017

Bono will break U2's pledge against golf for AIDS charity
When the members of the rock band U2 were just young Irish lads, they made a pledge to each other that has remained steadfast throughout their decades-long run as rock stars...
Links: Stuff
Iran challenges taboos on discussing sex as HIV rate rises
TEHRAN, Iran — In a square in a poor eastern Tehran neighborhood known for its drug addicts and dealers, psychologist Atefeh Azimi draws another drop of blood from a worried passer-by's finger...
Links: NZ Herald
Maurice Williamson is now a gay icon in Japan, and he's a bit bemused
A week ago, it's fair to say no-one in Japan had ever heard of former NZ National Party MP Maurice Williamson...
Links: Stuff
Transgender community mourns loss of Wellington bus driver Shelley Howard
When Shelley Howard stood in the street wearing a blindfold, she did so to send a message about life as a transgender...
Links: Stuff
Australian Marriage Bill Passes The Senate
Links: Express
Trudeau apologises for injustices against LGBT+ people
Links: Express

Tue 29 Nov 2016

Puāwai Festival Begins Tonight!
Links: Express
Ruby Rose Writes and Directs The Veronicas’ Latest Video
Links: Express
Epsom killer pleads guilty to another assault
Beauen Wallace-Loretz One of the two young men found guilty of murdering gay man Ihaia Gillman-Harris in an Epsom motel has now pleaded guilty to earlier attacking another man...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 29 Nov 2015

Pot Luck web series (Wellington)
Ness Simons talks about writing and directing Pot Luck - New Zealands first lesbian web series
Features: Ness Simons
Links: PrideNZ.com
Backstage at Family For World AIDS Day
Links: Express
Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships For Same Sex Couples
Links: Express
New Gay Sauna Set to Make a Splash
Links: Express
The deleted Love Actually lesbian scenes
It’s been revealed that everyone’s favourite Christmas romantic comedy originally featured a moving lesbian storyline that was cut from the final edit...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 29 Nov 2014

Finland Passes Marriage Equality
Links: Express
Homophobic Fans Banned From Twickenham After All Blacks Match
Links: Express
Watch: Princess to Queen highlights
Watch Auckland's up and coming queens strutting their stuff in the final of Princess to Queen 2014 at Family Bar...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 29 Nov 2013

HIV - Success vs failure
This is a big story...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 29 Nov 2012

Your submissions: Legalise Love
The group created to lobby for marriage and adoption equality, Legalise Love, has made its submission on the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 29 Nov 2011

Woman sentenced over lesbian/STD yarns
A Queenstown woman who claimed her daughter's rival was a lesbian and had an STD has been sentenced at Queenstown District Court...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 29 Nov 2010

Wong breaks ranks to support gay marriage
Penny Wong Australia's Finance Minister Penny Wong has boosted the push for gay marriage within Labor, breaking ranks to support a motion from the left faction of the South Australian ALP, which passed by two votes...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 29 Nov 2009

Transsexual sports writer found dead
The Californian sports writer who made headlines around the world in 2007, when he revealed he planned to live the rest of his life as a woman, has been found dead...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 29 Nov 2008

Wellingtonians elected to NZAF board
Two gay Wellington men have been elected onto the Trust Board of the NZ AIDS Foundation at this afternoon's Annual General Meeting...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 29 Nov 2007

Wellington drag troupe salutes Spice Girls
The Spice Girls may have reformed but they're leaving New Zealand off their world tour, so a Wellington drag troupe say they're offering the next best thing...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 29 Nov 2006

Tim Barnett: Change for the better
Tim Barnett MP Tim Barnett says Rainbow Labour's team of five in Parliament have achieved much, but their mission is far from complete...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 29 Nov 2004

Gay Eaters for Jesus call on Civil Union supporters to eat an extra portion of food at their next meal (New Zealand)
The call comes following the "limited fast" undertaken by United Future MP Paul Adams and Baptist pastor Steve Trim as protest to Civil Unions. "We want to promote a positive message with our action", said Xavier Goldie, facilitator of GEFJ. Goldie went on to say that GEFJ were not promoting a lifestyle of excess. "After all, many gay, lesbian and progressive people realise the beauty of restrained minimalism - whether in interior decorating or one's political outlook, and we certainly wouldn't want to contribute to an expanding waistband."
Links: Scoop
Television news reports: Civil Union Bill may pass within the next fortnight, and AIDS in Thailand (New Zealand)
TV3 news, ref F84523.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Torch Song Trilogy
Transposing plays out of their original setting and attempting to 'adapt' them for a local audience is never an easy task, and when you're taking a production as quintessentially rooted in the New York gay ghetto and Jewish sensibilities as Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, you'd better make sure you don't do it by half...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 29 Nov 2003

Ponsonby Heroes plan big season ahead
Those keen on joining the Ponsonby Heroes rugby team next season and accompanying the team to England for the Bingham Cup in May are invited to an informal BYO get-together this afternoon in Auckland, to be held at 13 Sefton Ave from 5...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 29 Nov 2002

The Select Committee reports back on the Prostitution Reform Bill (New Zealand)
Links: Parliament

Sat 29 Nov 1997

The fourth annual HIV Walk for Life takes place (Auckland, New Zealand)
Links: NZ.com

Thu 29 Nov 1984

Television: playcentre mothers in Wellington donate blood for those with low risk AIDS (Auckland, New Zealand)
ref: TZP16634.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Thu 29 Nov 1906

Diplomat Alister McIntosh is born (Marlborough region, New Zealand)
Links: Te Ara

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