On This Day: 1st January

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Sun 1 Jan 2023

Author Gina Cole is made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (New Zealand)
Links: New Years Honours 2023
Transgender students should automatically get into nearest co-ed school, MP says
MP lodges bill to allow gender diverse students to automatically enrol at nearest co-ed school...
Links: Stuff

Fri 1 Jan 2021

Vicki-Anne Heikell is awarded a Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (New Zealand)
Heikell is awarded the honour for services to heritage preservation and Maori
Links: New Year Honours
Victor Rodger is awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (New Zealand)
Rodger is awarded the honour for services to theatre and Pacific arts.
Links: New Year Honours
Mark Fisher, supporting the rights and health of those living with HIV
A lot has changed in the three decades Mark Fisher has worked with the HIV community, but in many ways things are stuck in the 1980s...
Links: Stuff

Sun 1 Jan 2017

Ellen show guest pastor lets loose anti-gay tirade
An American pastor and gospel singer who performed with Pharrell Williams in his I See Victory music video and who is scheduled to appear on the Ellen Degeneres tv talk show this week has ranted against homosexuality...
Links: GayNZ.com
Kennedy arrested after defending gay friend
One of the USA's famed Kennedy political family has been arrested for assault in an incident which apparently began earlier when a gay friend of Connor Kennedy was subject to anti-gay slurs by a small group of male night-clubbers...
Links: GayNZ.com
New Year's Honours 2017
Every year GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 1 Jan 2016

Queen Bestows New Year Honours On GLBT Rights Advocates
Links: Express
Under Construction New Years Eve Party
Links: Express
GayNZ.com New Years Honours for 2015
It's time to acknowledge a group of people who have made a significant and long-lasting difference in the lives of glbti New Zealanders during the past year...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 1 Jan 2015

Grindr Guys – The Types of Guys We Meet
Links: Express
"Dr Hu" honoured for disability advocacy
Dr Huhana Hickey (picture thanks to Andrea) UPDATED: Auckland disability advocate Dr Huhana Hickey is to be made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit...
Links: GayNZ.com
GayNZ.com's New Year’s Dishonours
It’s been a year when our honours list was burgeoning, while ‘villains’ have been fewer and far between...
Links: GayNZ.com
Robbie Manson - Pt2: Being out and proud
[Robbie Manson - Pt1: The path to success] Olympic rower Robbie Manson (above left) says his homosexuality was always something that was in the back of his mind in his younger years...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 1 Jan 2014

Editorial and appreciation: Tony Katavich
Tony Katavich (l) and his life partner John Kiddie, who died mid-2012 The death of Tony Katavich pretty much marks the end of an era, in more ways than younger readers might imagine...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fighter and trailblazer Katavich remembered
Tony Katavich is being remembered as a determined and influential man who has left a vital legacy for gay New Zealanders...
Links: GayNZ.com
New live-in Queen of Vinegar Hill crowned
Shane Young looks resplendent in robes Eighteen-year veteran and current kaitiaki of Vinegar Hill Shane Young is “horribly surprised and rather speechless” after being made 2014’s Queen of the gay campground...
Links: GayNZ.com
New Year welcomed on Karangahape Road
Grant Robertson and Alf Kaiwai at Eagle Bar Political bigwig Grant Robertson and his partner Alf Kaiwai were amongst the many gay people who saw in the New Year on New Zealand's gayest street, Karangahape Road in Auckland, last night...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 1 Jan 2013

GayNZ.com's 2012 New Year’s Honours
Our favourite part of the year is looking back on the people who have shone over the year...
Links: GayNZ.com
GayNZ.com's 2012 New Year’s Honours
Our favourite part of the year is looking back on the people who have shone over the year...
Links: GayNZ.com
NYE opinion divided on glbti safety on K' Rd
Just over half of the gay and lesbian folk polled on New Zealand's gayest street say they feel reasonably safe there, including one young man who says he has been attacked in the past...
Links: GayNZ.com
Prescription price rise could put HIV+ lives at risk
Today's almost doubling of prescription fees from $3 to $5 per script could place lives at risk according to HIV support organisation Body Positive...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 1 Jan 2012

GayNZ.com's 2011 New Year's honours
Throughout a year of magnificent highs and shattering lows a few heroes have stood out in 2011 as those GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
Honour for the woman who helped free NZ gays
Fran Wilde The courageous politician who helmed the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform bill, freeing New Zealand's gay men of the fear of criminal prosecution for being sexually intimate with each other, has been recognised in the New Year's Honours...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 1 Jan 2011

The 2010 GayNZ.com Honours
Every year many people make life better for glbt New Zealanders...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 1 Jan 2010

Welcome to 2010!
We're keeping track of all the parties, events and festivals confirmed in what looks set to be a very busy 2010! Let us know if there's more to add by emailing us on gaynz@woosh...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 1 Jan 2009

Family's first moments of 2009
We captured the moment as Miss Ribena took to the stage for the countdown to the new year at K' Road's gayest nightclub...
Links: GayNZ.com
HIV test upswing expected after holidays
HIV and STD services are expecting an increase in the number of people seeking sexual health tests and advice following the Christmas/New Year holiday break...
Links: GayNZ.com
New Year's GLBT Honours 2008/09
There may have been no openly glbt people included in this year's national New Year's Honours list but there are plenty of people who have made remarkable and positive contributions to gay people's lives, either directly or indirectly...
Links: GayNZ.com
Stephen Fry is here to meet NZ birds
"I just had a weta crawling all over me *shiver*" typed gay British actor, author, director and wit Stephen Fry onto his blog this afternoon from Somes Island in Wellington Harbour...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 1 Jan 2008

Big Love: Slippery Slope?
Big Love poster art The US Christian Right waxed hysterical about HBO's Big Love last year...
Links: GayNZ.com
NYE shows delight Vinegar Hill campers
Hundreds of LGBT campers saw in the New Year 2008 last night with a colourful line-up of shows at Vinegar Hill annual camping festival in the lower North Island – and the new Queen of Vinegar Hill for 2008 was named in the elaborate awards ceremony...
Links: GayNZ.com
Ten of the Best - 2007 edition
Having already listed the Top Ten of GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 1 Jan 2007

2006 New Year's honours: Lifetime Achievement Awards
There are few names that somehow didn't neatly fit into our Top Ten Finest and Foulest lists, people we couldn't quite decide on...
Links: GayNZ.com
2006 New Year's honours: The ten Finest!
Whilst many New Zealanders, gay lesbian, straight or whatever, made a positive difference in our lives or people's understanding of our lives, these are the ten folk GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
2006 New Year's honours: The ten Foulest!
Without the controversy of Civil Unions legislation, General Election bickering or the downfall of paedophile religious leaders, 2006 should have been a dream year for glbt folk, right? Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, no...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 1 Jan 2006

New Year's Honours: Ten Terrific Treasures!
Some of us have been unjustly accused of fizzing at the bung before, but on this occasion it's unabashedly true as we explode in a jismatic fit of superlatives for our list of this year's good guys (and girls too – we ain't living in some sort of Duffocracy here)...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 1 Jan 2003

30 Years of Gay Liberation (Part 3)
Lesbian journalist Claire Gummer concludes her three-part series marking the 30th anniversary of the gay liberation movement in NZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 1 Jan 2000

Snapshot 2000 - coming out stories (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Participants talk about their coming out experiences.
Features: unidentified voice(s)
Links: PrideNZ.com
Snapshot 2000 - first same-sex experience (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Participants talk about their first same-sex experiences.
Features: unidentified voice(s)
Links: PrideNZ.com
Snapshot 2000 - personal advice (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Participants give their personal advice and opinions to those thinking of coming out
Features: unidentified voice(s)
Links: PrideNZ.com
Snapshot 2000 - realisation (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Participants talk about the moment when they realise they are not heterosexual
Features: unidentified voice(s)
Links: PrideNZ.com

Thu 1 Jan 1998

Jacquie Grant becomes a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) (West Coast region, New Zealand)
Grant is honoured for her work as a foster parent to more than 60 children. In 2018 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM).
Links: Te Ara, A Gender Variance Whos Who

Sun 1 Jan 1995

Dancer Warren Douglas dies (Wellington, New Zealand)
The Warren Douglas Scholarship Fund was subsequently established in May 1995 to help those who wanted to make the transition from performer to arts administrator, as he had done. Douglas is remembered on the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Links: New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt, Warren Douglas Scholarship Fund

Tue 1 Jan 1991

Carmen Rupe interviewed by Jack Body (1991) (Sydney)
Jack Body interviews Carmen Rupe in 1991 about her life.
Features: Carmen Rupe
Links: PrideNZ.com

Mon 1 Jan 1979

Gay Rights Movement (c.1979) (Aotearoa New Zealand)
In this recording from c.1979, Mike Waghorne describes the motivations behind the Gay Rights Movements
Features: Mike Waghorne
Links: PrideNZ.com

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