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Thu 13 Jan 2022

  • G.A.Y Nightclub Confirmed As Location Of Interest
    Links: Express

Wed 13 Jan 2021

  • Should Straight Actors Play Gay Characters?
    Links: Express

Mon 13 Jan 2020

  • DJ Qualls comes out as gay onstage at comedy show
    Road Trip, Supernatural and Man in the High Castle actor DJ Qualls announced his sexuality at one of his friend's standup comedy shows...
    Links: Stuff
  • Israel Folau breaks down about Australia's bush fires months after claiming the fires were 'God's punishment' for gay marriage
    Months after Israel Folau disturbingly linked the Australian bush fire crisis to God's punishment for legalising gay marriage, the former Wallabies star has had a change of heart...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • 2 X Tickets To Mika’s Revaluation Tour
    Links: Express
  • 2 x Tickets TO SO POP 2020
    Links: Express
  • Tickets To WERQ THE WORLD Tour
    Links: Express

Sun 13 Jan 2019

  • Auckland Council Employees Not to Participate in Official Capacity at Pride...
    Links: Express

Sat 13 Jan 2018

  • King was Melbourne Park court renamed
    Twelve-times grand slam champion Billie Jean King says Margaret Court's name should be stripped from the Australian Open showcourt due to her divisive views on sexuality...
    Links: RNZ
  • Review: The xx
    Links: Express

Fri 13 Jan 2017

  • “Gay Men and Lesbians are our Allies”
    Links: Express
  • Ak Pride Parade encouraging 'overlooked' groups
    The co-producer of next month's Auckland Pride Parade are hoping to stimulate historically under-represented groups to become part of the parade...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Is Canada delaying the inevitable?
    Canada's Senate has deferred additional debate over Bill C-16, which will add gender identity and gender expression to its Human Rights Act, until February 2017...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Obama may reduce Manning's sentence
    US military whistleblower Private Chelsea Manning may be about to have her sentence reduced paving the way for her to be released early from military prison where she has twice to commit suicide...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 13 Jan 2016

  • Down Under’s Dirty Saturday
    Links: Express
  • Family’s Sexy Saturday
    Links: Express
  • Midsumma to kick off Melbourne’s 2016 festival calendar
    Links: Express
  • Glbti lives: Allyson Hamblett
    Transgender rights advocate Allyson Hamblett is the next in line for our summer series profiling our great LGBTI community leaders and change-makers around the country...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Grammar HM has “chance to a set precedence”
    The General Manager of RainbowYOUTH says Auckland Grammar headmaster Tim O-Connor has “a real chance to set a precedence with how LGBTI students and issues are dealt with at schools in New Zealand in the future” given the high profile of the school...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ man "HIV advocate to watch in 2016"
    A New Zealand man is featured on an international list of HIV advocates to watch in 2016...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 13 Jan 2015

  • Another US State Has Marriage Ban Struck Down
    Links: Express
  • Cheeky Lovers – Eagle Bar
    Links: Express
  • Crunk and Crazy – Eagle Bar
    Links: Express
  • Devilishly Sexy – Family Bar and Club
    Links: Express
  • Drag Queen Take Over – Family Bar and Club
    Links: Express
  • GLBT Activist named as Queen’s Young Leader
    Links: Express
  • Mixing and Mingling – Shanghai Lil’s
    Links: Express
  • 'Uncle Wow' Broadhead farewelled
    No photography, no headstone and no epitaph were among the instructions left by flamboyant gay artist and performer Warwick Broadhead whose two and a half hour-long funeral was today attended by upwards of 600 mourners...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Egyptian court clears men of 'debauchery'
    An Egyptian court has cleared 26 men charged with ‘debauchery’ - however one of the men says he was raped in prison...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gump actor pulls out of Legatus summit
    UPDATED: Actor Gary Sinese has pulled out of an upcoming US summit for a Catholic group which still believes in debunked gay ‘cures’...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Matt Bomer's Globes acceptance speech
    In gay actor Matt Bomer’s Golden Globes acceptance speech, he thanked his husband and children, and stated “we love you, we remember you” to those lost to HIV/AIDS...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Matt Bomer's Globes acceptance speech
    In gay actor Matt Bomer’s Golden Globes acceptance speech, he thanked his husband and children, and stated “we love you, we remember you” to those lost to HIV/AIDS...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • QSA Network rebranded as InsideOUT
    QSA Network Aotearoa has been rebranded InsideOUT, to better reflect its wider focus, and because the name is shorter, simpler and more fun...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Queen to honour NZ lgbti youth worker
    UPDATED: New Zealander Tabby Besley is to be personally honoured by The Queen for her work with lgbti youth in schools...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The boundless Jay Chasland
    In the cast for Rotorua’s Blue Baths Comedy Cabaret is Jay Chasland, a former rugby rep who has a four octave range, does more than 60 impressions and can do the splits while singing...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • US: Another marriage ban struck down
    A marriage ban in one of the remaining US states to have such laws has been declared unconstitutional, in a decision campaigners say “puts another big crack in the wall of discrimination that keeps countless LGBT people as second class citizens”...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Watch: Panti's TED Talk
    Ireland's most well-known drag queen expresses her thoughts on navigating a world in which the simple act of holding hands can be a political statement...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 13 Jan 2014

  • Hong Kong activists win right to dance
    The Angels can dance again A court of appeal has backed gay rights activists’ right to dance during a gay rally in Hong Kong in 2011, after they were banned from doing so by police...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Out in the Square after party to get wild
    The official Out in the Square after party will get the capital roaring with a Wild Jungle theme this Sunday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Why we love Out in the Square
    This Saturday is Wellington’s most fabulous free glbti event, Out in the Square – a place where you can celebrate being who you are, and this year enjoy live music from Anika Moa and mark the passage of our marriage equality law...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 13 Jan 2013

  • Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP425322.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • NewstalkZB apologises for Ali Mau "dyke" slur
    NewstalkZB host Bruce Russell A NewstalkZB host has apologised for deriding Ali Mau as a "dyke' on Friday night after a strong reaction from listeners and Mau supporters...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 13 Jan 2012

  • "No chance in hell" for gay rights in Zimbabwe
    An MP who sits on the committee in charge of the process says there is "no chance in hell" that Zimbabwe's new constitution will include gay rights...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Campaigners to slam Court at Aussie Open
    Margaret Court has sparked outrage among gay rights supporters Gay rights campaigners are planning to make their disgust at the archaic views of Australia's most successful female tennis player clear, with a rainbow flag protest at this month's Australian Open in Melbourne...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Canadian weddings could be ruled invalid
    A lawyer has argued that thousands of foreign gay couples who wed in Canada are not legally married, as their weddings are not recognised in their home countries...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Second Cottrell accused to seek e-bail
    Nicho Waipuka One of the men accused of the brutal murder of Wellington journalist Phil Cottrell is seeking to be released on electronic bail...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Suppression lifted for ChCh murder-accused
    Hayden Miles Name suppression has been lifted for the man charged with the murder of Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 13 Jan 2011

  • Television news report: a worker in the Cook Islands has tested positive for HIV (New Zealand)
    One news, ref F203458.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, University of Auckland
  • "We had to close" - ChCh gay couple
    Dave and Kym A gay Christchurch couple says they have closed their bakery because they simply couldn't go on any longer in the face of homophobic abuse and threats from a local family...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Blue Coat and Murky Filters
    Blue Coat is the webfilter that McDonald's uses to enforce its 'family friendly' policy within its Internet WiFi access service...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GLBT history museum opens in Castro
    America's first GLBT museum has opened in San Francisco's Castro district, with objects ranging from Harvey Milk's pink-framed sunglasses to manuscripts and sex toys...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Homo-hatred in suburban ChCh
    Dave and Kym A local woman claiming money for work she did as a volunteer sparked the backlash of threats, attacks and homophobic abuse which have left a gay Christchurch couple closing their business and teetering on an emotional breaking point...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 13 Jan 2010

  • Drag diva 'Miz Ima Starr' set for Aroha Festival
    Aussie-based singing drag sensation Miz Ima Starr is bringing her one-woman cabaret show to Auckland's Aroha Festival in March...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Seyfried and Moore star in lesbian sex scandal
    Hollywood leading ladies Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried are set to shock and titillate audiences with their lesbian trysts in new film Chloe...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • What's Peaches cooking up in her lab?
    Looks like it's another ordinary day of manufacturing lesbian zombie psycho-bitches for Peaches in her latest video! The bisexual Canadian electro-trendsetter will hit Auckland's the Transmission Room for a special show tomorrow (Thursday) night...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 13 Jan 2009

  • 'Monster' Hero Party confirmed at last
    Two dancefloors, ten DJ's and over fifty live performers are lined up for 2009's Hero Party, planned for Auckland's Transmission Room on Friday 20 February...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Prince Harry probed over video slurs
    The British Army has begun looking into homophobic and racist remarks made by Prince Harry about members of his platoon, captured on film in 2006...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 13 Jan 2008

  • Poster Boys target gay summer hotspots
    New Zealand's team of new Safe Sex Poster Boys have made appearances in several gay nightclubs and camping spots over the summer holiday time, and are due to appear in several print ads in coming weeks...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sydney police "ignoring gay-hate crimes"
    10...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • They're Horrifying! They're Hideous! They're Gay Zombies
    Look out! The Man Eaters* are coming your way! Welcome to the new zombie zeitgeist, but what's in it for us? Zombies appear to be the newly ascendant monstrosity du jour within the horror genre and popular culture both...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 13 Jan 2006

  • Longtime Companion
    LONGTIME COMPANION Dir: Norman René US, 1990, 35mm, 100 mins Currently showing on Sky's MGM Channel It's a sad state of affairs that when Hollywood finally got around to making films about gay men, they all seemed to be about gay men dying...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • UniQ Threatens Westpac Boycott
    UniQ has threatened that it will urge its members, as well as members of GABA and GAP, to boycott Westpac unless the bank's public stance on Westpac Stadium's homophobic policy which frowns upon same-sex intimacy is changed...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 13 Jan 2005

  • Media blackout from Police over Flesh fire
    Police and the Fire Service are maintaining a media silence over what caused a firebomb at Auckland gay venue Flesh, which almost destroyed the club just before New Year's...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Methodists discuss gay "problem"
    An international conference of Methodists planned for New Zealand was moved to Fiji because of New Zealand's gay preacher "problem"...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 13 Jan 1998

Thu 13 Jan 1983

  • Newspaper report: Air New Zealand distances itself from gay clientele (San Francisco, United States of America)
    Links: Bay Area Reporter

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