On This Day: 10th April

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Fri 10 Apr 2020

Kiwis In Self-Isolation: Melanie Payne
Links: Express
Kiwis Surviving Self-Isolation: Mr Bear NZ Corie Boley
Links: Express

Wed 10 Apr 2019

Transgender prisoner launches hunger strike over spat with Corrections
A transgender inmate, who is also a child sex offender, is refusing food, water and medication after a transfer delay...
Links: Stuff
Transgender prisoner on hunger strike in prison
A convicted child sex offender and transgender prisoner has launched a hunger, thirst and medication strike after she wasn't transfered from Auckland Prison to a prison in Wellington...
Links: RNZ
Opinion – Racism and White Queer Spaces
Links: Express
Win Tickets to Jake Howie’s LET THEM EAT JAKE!
Links: Express

Tue 10 Apr 2018

Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle says Israel Folau should have "put a positive spin on that same message" (Australia)
Folua had earlier stated that homosexuals would go to "HELL" unless they "repent their sins".
Links: ABC
The Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Act 2018 is enacted (New Zealand)
Links: Parliament.nz, Ministry of Justice
Folau's "gays in hell" comment backlash
Rugby Australia is in a quandary about what to do about Warratah's player Israel Folau after expressing his Christian-based view that gay people go to hell...
Links: RNZ
Gay men can now apply to have historic convictions wiped
Gay men can now apply to have historic convictions wiped In an important moment for New Zealand’s gay community men can now apply to have historical homosexual convictions wiped says Justice Minister Andrew Little...
Links: Scoop
The Panel with Michele A'Court and Peter Fa'afiu (Part 2)
Unprecedented access to electronic devices and the internet has left Gen Z bored with the whole on-line thing...
Links: RNZ
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Injured at Commonwealth Games
Links: Express

Mon 10 Apr 2017

Editorial: GayNZ.com to 'retire' May 31st.
Times change...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 10 Apr 2015

A Creative Dream
Links: Express
Catholic Priest Fired For Hosting Gay Sex Orgies
Links: Express
Viral subway post: (read to the end!)
Brazilian man Nelson Felippe’s Facebook post featuring this picture has been shared widely...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 10 Apr 2014

Watch: Lena Dunham's pride in her sister
"I have always felt a strong and emotional connection to members of the LGBTQ community," Girls creator Lena Dunham has said in an acceptance speech for a pro-equality Point Horizon Award...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 10 Apr 2013

Singapore: judge upholds gay sex ban
File photo Singapore’s High Court has dismissed a case by a gay couple who attempted to have the law which bans gay sex thrown out...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 Apr 2012

Gay drama and emotion from Emmerdale episodes
Aaron (left) gets romantic My mate told me to check out a gay story line of a daytime tv soap...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 10 Apr 2011

Volunteers muck in at Mangawhai Heads
A crew of volunteers has chipped in and spent a day helping get the property of an arson-hit lesbian couple back in order...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 10 Apr 2010

Students hound gay professor to his death
A gay professor of modern languages at an Indian university has been found dead after being exposed by students who broke in to his home and filmed him with his partner...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 10 Apr 2009

Rainbow Youth wants your stories
Rainbow Youth want your stories of growing up LGBT in New Zealand, for a new anti-bullying campaign...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 10 Apr 2008

Sydney: Gay judge "will face wrath of God"
A Senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 Apr 2007

UK: "Discrimination must end" - Archbishop
Church discrimination against women and gay people must end, the Archbishop of Wales has said in his Easter message...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 10 Apr 2005

Lobby groups demand release of Fiji men
There are calls across Australia and New Zealand for pressure to be put on the Fijiian government to release two men, one of whom was an Australian tourist, who received two-year prison sentences this week for having consensual gay sex...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 10 Apr 2004

Where is New Zealand GandL social history?
In 2003, Annemarie Jagose and Peter Wells wrote excellent "other Victorian" gay historical novels...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 10 Apr 2002

ACC Saga continues - Get your votes in
Aucklanders should closely observe their conservative-dominated council and bear Banks and Co...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 10 Apr 1984

Customs officials raid Gay's the Word bookstore (London, United Kingdom)
The raid was named Operation Tiger and the bookstore was subsequently charged with conspiring to import indecent literature.

Mon 10 Apr 1978

Television news report: author Shere Hite visits New Zealand to promote her book The Hite Report (New Zealand)
Ref TZP27385.
Links: TVNZ

Thu 10 Apr 1890

Maata Mahupuku is born (New Zealand)
Mahupuku was later a lover of Katherine Mansfield.
Links: Te Ara

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