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Fri 22 Apr 2022

  • Yuki Kihara's exhibition Paradise Camp on the world stage
    Artist Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp imagines a fa’afafine utopia where gender and sexuality are no longer judged through a binary lens...
    Links: Stuff
  • 2 X TICKETS TO ATC’S GRAND HORIZONS
    Links: Express
  • 5 X $50 GAMERSPHERE VOUCHERS
    Links: Express
  • 5 X CANDLE CRUSH WAX MELTS
    Links: Express

Wed 22 Apr 2020

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Government Looks To Recognise Same-Sex Unions
    Links: Express
  • express Chats With LGBT+ Kiwi Artist Paige
    Links: Express
  • Fiji Rugby Chairman Resigns Over Homophobic Comments
    Links: Express

Mon 22 Apr 2019

  • Australian mental health survey is world's largest study of bisexuals
    Groundbreaking study examined why bisexual people experience higher rates of psychological distress...
    Links: Stuff
  • Gay rugby star Gareth Thomas claims Billy Vunipola's apology is 'unacceptable'
    Former Lions skipper hits out at Israel Folau's "uneducated'' social media post about hell awaiting homosexuals...
    Links: Stuff

Sun 22 Apr 2018

  • Alice Snedden: Hate speech is hate speech, no debate
    OPINION: This week the husband of accomplished Silver Fern Maria Folau, Israel Folau, said on his Instagram account that gay people would go to hell unless they repent for their "sins"...
    Links: Stuff
  • Chiefs make a rainbow connection when they lace up to play Reds
    Chiefs players wore rainbow bootlaces in their Super Rugby game against the Reds, letting their feet do the talking for gay rights solidarity and straight-shooting halfback Brad Weber...
    Links: Stuff
  • Wellington’s S and M’s Bar Rocked on Saturday
    Links: Express

Fri 22 Apr 2016

  • Shift hui takes place (Wellington, New Zealand)
    The annual hui is organised by InsideOUT and is for young people of diverse sexualities, sexes and genders. The hui takes place at Tapu Te Ranga Marae in Island Bay.
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Liberal Redneck Perfectly Explains Gender Neutral Bathroom Panic
    Links: Express
  • Prince Mourned by GLBT Celebrities
    Links: Express
  • Court rules in favour of trans student in Virginia
    A federal appeals court has ruled in favour of a transgender male student in Virginia who challenged his school’s bathroom policy...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Dakota Hemmingson's day in court
    In breaking news, there has been an important preliminary development in Dakota Hemmingson's anti-transgender employment relations hearing, and the Ministry of Health has put out a document about reassignment surgery...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NPIP picket Corrections offices and call for action
    No Pride in Prisons held a protest outside the Department of Corrections Northern Region office this morning in response to the recent sexual assault allegations made by a trans inmate at Whanganui Men’s Prison...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • “No public health outbreak plan in NZ for STIs.”
    As cases of a drug resistant “super strain” of gonorrhoea are found in the UK, here in New Zealand, The Ministry of Health say that there have been seven samples of gonorrhoea collected in New Zealand that were resistant to the same drug, azithromycin, however they are unsure of the level of resistance...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Apr 2015

  • Peter Ellis Request For Commission of Inquiry Declined
    Links: Express
  • UK Election: Labour Reveals GLBT Manifesto
    Links: Express
  • British Elections 2015: An LGBT Perspective
    After the first month of British general election campaigning, what LGBT issues have emerged from the ongoing intensive debates between prime ministerial and parliamentary candidates? Given that the United Kingdom Independence Party tends to have attracted troglodyte religious social conservatives, anti-immigration racists and Islamophobes from the dregs of the Conservative Party, it would be redundant to go into intricate detail about the mendacities and kneejerk prejudices expressed by rank and file parliamentary candidates of that particular party, or some unreconstructed members of the Conservative Party either...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pakistan: Arrests over horrific trans attack
    [Content warning] Six men have been arrested over the murders of two trans women and gang rape of another in Northern Pakistan...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Peter Ellis denied Commission of Inquiry
    The Justice Minister has declined a request from supporters of Peter Ellis for a Commission of Inquiry into his sexual assault convictions...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Apr 2014

  • Coming soon: The Normal Heart
    Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch and Jim Parsons star in The Normal Heart, based on Larry Kramer’s Tony Award winning play...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Community voices vital for protection bid
    Allyson Hamblett A transgender rights advocate is rallying community members to get typing, and make submissions supporting a bid to explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination under the Human Rights Act...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fresh hope for ending India's gay sex ban
    India's Supreme Court There's hope a ruling creating a "third gender" status for transgender people will help overturn the nation's ban on gay sex...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ and gay-o-politics
    Gay rights have replaced religion and ideology as a new dividing point between East and West, developed and developing countries...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Wild Oates to sign off after four years
    Steven Oates getting wild at Radio Ponsonby Auckland glbti radio show Wild Oates will have its last hurrah this Sunday due to the closure of Radio Ponsonby...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 22 Apr 2013

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP430579.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Maurice Williamson allowed to go on Ellen
    National MP Maurice Williamson has been given the Prime Minister’s permission to appear on huge-rating US talkshow Ellen...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The best X Factor audition ever?
    South Auckland drag queen Ashley Tonga swept into the auditions of New Zealand's X Factor like a hurricane of hilarity and talent, leaving us all blown away! GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 22 Apr 2012

  • Michael Sanders - Queen of the Whole Universe (Auckland)
    Michael Sanders talks about being one of the choreographers for the Queen of the Whole Universe beauty pageant.
    Features: Michael Sanders
    Links: PrideNZ.com

Fri 22 Apr 2011

  • Absolutely Fabulous to make a comeback
    The BBC is putting the finishing touched on a deal to bring back gay-favourite Absolutely Fabulous...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Laughing out loud
    There are probably rock stars who get less female attention than comedian Urzila Carlson...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pink Ball could become an annual affair
    Organisers of next month's swanky Pink Ball at the picturesque central North Island Chateau Tongariro are hoping to make it an annual event, after their first foray into catering for the gay and lesbian market...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 22 Apr 2010

  • Television item (Auckland, New Zealand)
    20/20, ref: TZP382211.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Bisexual men "not gay enough" for softball team
    Three bisexual men are taking legal action against an American gay-sports group, claiming they were judged "not gay enough" to play for a gay softball team during the Gay Softball World Series...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Julian Clary's Next Top Drag Queen
    Julian Clary doesn't quite know why, but he is on a mission to find Australasia's best drag names...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Lesbian radio goes live to air this Saturday nite
    A lesbian-themed radio show, The Kel Word Saturday Night Shakedown, takes to the air in central Auckland - and to the internet - this Saturday night...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Apr 2009

  • Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
    Video footage showing transgender sex workers being verbally abused and threatened by a vigilante group aiming to "clean up" South Auckland is just one example of altercations happening on the streets every night, says the NZ Prostitutes Collective...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rainbow Youth thanks Tamati for TV win
    LGBT young people's organisation Rainbow Youth is "ecstatic" with gay TV presenter Tamati Coffey's dancing win last night, which was seen by almost a third of NZ's population...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Stephen Fry wants "a gay yoking"
    Gay UK wit Stephen Fry wonders why LGBT people can't come up with a new word for their committed couples, in places where same-sex marriage is still banned...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Apr 2008

  • A gay gal's guide to transforming your body
    Julz Darroch First of all, let me get the inevitable out the way (just so I'm covered)! Beauty is only skin deep… It doesn't matter what you like it's all in how you feel… Yada yada yada… Don't get me wrong, I believe in all these principles FOR OTHER WOMEN...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • A gay gal's guide to transforming your body
    Julz Darroch First of all, let me get the inevitable out the way (just so I'm covered)! Beauty is only skin deep… It doesn't matter what you like it's all in how you feel… Yada yada yada… Don't get me wrong, I believe in all these principles FOR OTHER WOMEN...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • ANZAC Day: Wartime lesbians remembered
    New Zealand's lesbians in the forces and lesbian victims of war will be remembered this ANZAC Day at Auckland's Charlotte Museum...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • British LGBT museum opens on web
    Proudheritage...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Homophobia, Torture and Execution in Iran
    These two men escaped Iran after their 'lashing' punishment for being homosexual I really must congratulate Australia's DNA magazine for Clive Simmons' Children of the Revolution, which deals with the horrific torture and execution of several Iranian teenagers...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • TV magician says he found his perfect man
    Popular UK television illusionist Derren Brown has come out of the closet, telling a tabloid that he's been in a "perfect" relationship with a man for a year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 22 Apr 2007

  • Barrymore
    Comedian Michael Barrymore may be forced to give half his assets to his former boyfriend, Kiwi Shaun Davis...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gathering the glossy gossip - "I love my job!"
    Sebastian van der Zwan As entertainment reporter for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Sebastian van der Zwan, 23, interviews celebrities, writes stories and compiles all the gossip and pictures for their many scandal-hungry readers...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New lesbian
    ‘Bitch!' is an all-new, ladies only ‘mix and mingle' night planned for Thursday evenings in Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • NZ transgender cop 'an ordinary woman'
    Three weeks ago, Constable Steve Lurajud, had gender-reassignment surgery in Phuket, Thailand, and will return to the Christchurch police next month as Constable Sarah Lurajud – New Zealand's first post-operative transgender cop...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Opinion: Brethrengate III...????
    Now that TVNZ has disclosed the possibility that a senior Exclusive Brethren elder has been a serial paedophile for the last four decades, let's hear no more nonsense about "vilification and victimisation" from eitherthat quarter, or their Tory apologists...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • USA: Teens
    A man from the American State of Arkansas is demanding the city pay him US$20,000 (NZ$26,836) for the ‘pain and suffering' of his sons after they discovered a book on lesbian sex in their local library...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 22 Apr 2005

  • Newman fails to front over stats misuse
    ACT's deputy leader Muriel Newman has gone AWOL, not fronting up to questions from GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • No weak gays in NZ police force
    The Police Association has dismissed concerns about weak gays being recruited for the force in the wake of the police computer-porn scandal as a "non-issue"...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 22 Apr 2004

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Qn, ref: TZP289617.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • No local politics for Beyer
    MP Georgina Beyer has said she will not return to local body politics after she leaves Parliament at the end of the current term...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Apr 2003

  • McDonalds denies anti-gay stance
    Burger chain McDonalds is denying having an anti-gay stance as it reviews its policy regarding sexuality information in publications distributed through its stores in the wake of the Tearaway controversy...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 22 Apr 1995

  • Tai Tahi Marsters attacks Jim Curtis (Napier, New Zealand)
    Marsters hit Curtis using a glass decanter. Curtis is left with brain damage while Marsters is later acquitted of both attempted murder and assault. At his trial Marsters uses the provocation/gay panic defence, claiming Curtis made a sexual advance.
    Links: Parliamentary debate, GayNZ

Fri 22 Apr 1988

Wed 22 Apr 1987

Tue 22 Apr 1986

Fri 22 Apr 1983

  • The Topp Twins perform at Circa Theatre (Wellington, New Zealand)

Wed 22 Apr 1953

  • Charles Farthing is born (Christchurch, New Zealand)
    Farthing would later become a pioneering doctor specialising in the early recognition and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
    Links: New Zealand Medical Journal, Wikipedia

Mon 22 Apr 1907

  • Bertha Victor appears in court charged with drunkenness, vagrancy, and using obscene language (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Links: Papers Past

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