On This Day: 20th August

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Thu 20 Aug 2020

Baseball commentator just kissed his career goodbye with on-air gay slur
Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended from working Cincinnati's games after using an anti-gay slur on air, prompting the team to apologise for the "horrific, homophobic remark...
Links: NZ Herald
Homophobic Couple Who Pointed Guns At BLM Protesters To Speak At...
Links: Express

Tue 20 Aug 2019

Extensive supervision order granted to strictly monitor 'high risk' HIV positive recidivist child sex offender
An Extended Supervision Order has been granted by the court to strictly monitor a repeat child sex offender who threatened to give "many people HIV, HEP C"...
Links: NZ Herald
High-risk child sex offender Laken McKay to be monitored after release from prison
HIV positive paedophile who assaulted multiple children will be back on the streets next month...
Links: Stuff
High-risk child sex offender to be strictly monitored after September release
A HIV positive repeat child sex offender will be released from jail next month, but will be heavily monitored by the Department of Corrections for seven years...
Links: RNZ
Australian Police Formally Apologise to Rainbow Community for Historical Prosecution
Links: Express
Yungblud Discusses Being Sexually Fluid And Breaking Gender Norms
Links: Express

Mon 20 Aug 2018

Ask Uncle Eli
Links: Express
Meet Our Community
Links: Express

Sun 20 Aug 2017

Montreal Apologises for Historic LGBT+ Raids
Links: Express
Officers Provoke Inmates to Attack Psychologist Reporting LGBT+ Abuse
Links: Express
OUTLine Sees Drastic Increase in Call Volume
Links: Express

Sat 20 Aug 2016

August Drag Wars: Season Two!
Links: Express
Police entrapment of gays in Egypt
Police entrapment using hook-up apps are just one of the fears gay Egyptians must now face following the reigning in of the relatively trusted army and the resurgence of the hated police...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 20 Aug 2015

Auckland Pride Seeks New Parade Director as Richard Taki Declines to...
Links: Express
Tiffany and Co. to Open Store in Auckland
Links: Express
Trans Personality Mary Haddock Staniland to Feature on New Zealand Version...
Links: Express
Watch: The Inspiring Story of Magic Stormers – Uganda’s Transgender Basketball...
Links: Express
Richard Tankersley: Our journey is ongoing
Human Rights Commissioner Richard Tankersley reflects back on some of our milestones, and looks ahead to what still needs to be achieved...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 20 Aug 2014

GABA AGM – Empire Tavern
Links: Express
Meet our GLBT parliamentary candidates: Jan Logie.
Links: Express
Meet our GLBT parliamentary candidates: Robert Moore.
Links: Express
Uganda criminalises HIV transmission
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni President President Yoweri Museveni has signed a bill which introduces fines and prison sentences for the transmission of HIV in Uganda...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 20 Aug 2013

Whistleblower journalist's gay partner detained
David Miranda and Glenn Greenwald The gay partner of the journalist who first interviewed US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has been detained at Heathrow Airport and questioned under the UK's Terrorism Act...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 20 Aug 2012

Michigan: Defamed gay student wins compo
Chris Armstrong The University of Michigan's first openly-gay student body president has been awardedUS$4...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 20 Aug 2011

Teacher suspended over Facebook post
Jerry Buell A Florida teacher has been suspended after he ranted on Facebook that the news gay marriage had been legalised in New York almost made him vomit...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 20 Aug 2010

Longtime staff member parts ways with NZAF
Jenkin (left) was a judge at the recent Mr Urge Leather contest The New Zealand AIDS Foundation's National Campaigns Co-ordinator Douglas Jenkin has has parted ways with the organisation...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 20 Aug 2009

Transsexuals win right to be deemed men
Two Australian female-to-male transsexuals have won the right to be considered men without having to undergo surgery on their reproductive organs...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 20 Aug 2008

UK: Lesbian stalker "a danger to women"
A British lesbian has been sentenced to an indeterminate term in a mental facility after pleading guilty to stalking, threatening to kill and intimidating her former lawyer...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 20 Aug 2007

Sir Ian McKellen in Chekov's The Seagull
Sir Ian McKellen with Richard Goulding The Seagull by Anton Chekov Royal Shakespeare Company of Great Britain Dir: Trevor Nunn ASB Theatre, The Edge, Auckland In its own way, “The Seagull” stands as important a work from the nineteenth century as Shakespeare's “King Lear” from the seventeenth...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 20 Aug 2004

Muslim faith taken into account for gay killing
The homosexual panic defence has again been used to reduce a murder charge to manslaughter, but more disturbingly, the killer's Muslim beliefs were also taken into account in considering his sentence...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 20 Aug 2003

NZer opens Belfast's first gay sauna
New Zealand-born Andre Graham has opened Belfast's first gay sauna, in a move welcomed by police who have since noticed a marked decline in local men cruising in parks and toilets...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 20 Aug 1976

Television news report: Gay Pride Week (New Zealand)
Looks at the Gay Liberation Movement's Gay Pride Week. Tonight, ref: TZP3871.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television: Bruce Mason on "Courting Blackbird" (New Zealand)
ref: TZP2031.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 20 Aug 1909

Artist Rodney Kennedy is born (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Links: Te Ara

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