On This Day: 28th September

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Thu 28 Sep 2023

Wellingtonians relieved as parliament protest remains peaceful
Wellingtonians can breathe a sigh of relief after a protest involving hundreds of people mirroring last years anti mandate occupation remained peaceful...
Links: RNZ
Rainbow Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Links: Express

Wed 28 Sep 2022

Why do TV shows like House of Dragon end up killing their only gay characters?
OPINION: House of the Dragon is comfortable with incest and regime change - but draws the line at happy gay couples - we need to bury the 'bury your gays' trope...
Links: Stuff
POLAND: Teen Arrested For Writing Supportive LGBTQ+ Messaging on Pavement
Links: Express

Tue 28 Sep 2021

Fiji reports first death of HIV patient with Covid-19
Fiji has reported its first death of a person living with HIV and diagnosed with Covid-19...
Links: RNZ
Graham Norton To Host An All-New “Drag Eurovision”
Links: Express
History Made As Germany Elects First Trans Members Of Parliament
Links: Express
Queer Kiwis in Level 3 Lockdown: Elena Kim
Links: Express

Mon 28 Sep 2020

Trainee Nurse Suffered 12 Years of Electroshock Therapy for Being LGBT+
Links: Express

Fri 28 Sep 2018

Celebration as past convictions for homosexuality wiped
Two people have had their historical convictions for homosexual offences wiped...
Links: RNZ
Man with sought-after blood type barred from donating due to sexuality
Supplies of O-Negative blood are "down to the last few drops", but Warren Dempsey-Coy's blood still isn't welcome...
Links: Stuff
Tamati Coffey will MC First NZ LGBTI Awards in Auckland
Tamati Coffey will be the MC of the First New Zealand LGBTI Awards in Auckland on November 29 ...
Links: Scoop
First Two Expungements for Historic Gay Convictions in New Zealand
Links: Express

Thu 28 Sep 2017

Officials: Transgender teen's grisly death not a hate crime
Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld's burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop...
Links: NZ Herald
Whiringa-ā-nuku / October 2017
Kia ora and welcome to our Whiringa-ā-nuku update, where we have started our review of the elections...
Links: Lesbian News Aotearoa
AUT All-Gender Bathrooms Create Issues for Disabled Students
Links: Express
Fashion Week Welcomes a New Era for Kiwi Fashion
Links: Express

Wed 28 Sep 2016

LGBT+ Festival in Haiti Cancelled
Links: Express
Say Hi to Our Newest Contributor
Links: Express
'HIV-related domestic violence must be addressed'
Two HIV-support organisations say they are noticing issues of abuse and domestic violence in couples where one or other partner is infected by HIV...
Links: GayNZ.com
Leading from the head and the heart
Three months ago Jason Myers was appointed as the sixth Executive Director of the NZ AIDS Foundation - though the actual title wasn't always that - in the organisation's thirty year history...
Links: GayNZ.com
Leading from the head and the heart
Three months ago Jason Myers was appointed as the sixth Executive Director of the NZ AIDS Foundation - though the actual title wasn't always that - in the organisation's thirty year history...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 28 Sep 2015

2 x Double Passes to Legend
Links: Express
Best in Class: Audi Q7 – Above and Beyond
Links: Express
Best in Class: BMW M4 – Desire
Links: Express
Best in Class: HONDA HR- V SPORT – Right Up There!
Links: Express
Best in Class: Range Rover Evoque TD4
Links: Express
Best in Class: Skoda Fabia – COTY!
Links: Express
Ellen Page Calls For More GLBT Stories in Cinema
Links: Express
Hudson and Halls Live!
Links: Express
WIN! 2 x Copies of Gay Book Binge
Links: Express
WIN! Double Passes to Robbie Williams
Links: Express
Audition call for musical in memory of Taylor
Calling all singers and actors, auditions for the musical People Like Us are being held in October...
Links: GayNZ.com
BP Wgtn closure regretted at farewell
Ron Irvine Regret at the closure of Body Positive Wellington's office was expressed by a number of speakers at a function to farewell departing manager Ron Irvine...
Links: GayNZ.com
Smithers to finally officially come out
Mr Smithers will finally come out to Mr Burns, after long years of unrequited love for his boss on hit cartoon The Simpsons...
Links: GayNZ.com
Unprovoked K’ Rd attack leaves nose broken
Photographer and prominent community member, Tux Hika, was attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning following a night out on Auckland’s K' Rd...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 28 Sep 2014

Activist Porleen Simmonds dies (New Zealand)
Links: LILAC
Hit British Gay Flick Pride Lands in NZ
Links: Express
Neil Patrick Harris Talks Marriage with Rosie O’Donnell
Links: Express
New Trans Web Series Gains Critical Acclaim
Links: Express
Ak Council - glbti liaison group mooted
A suggestion by the mayor of Auckland that a liaison group be formed bridging between the city's councillors and the glbti communities has taken a step towards reality with a formal submission being received by a council sub-committee...
Links: GayNZ.com
Four free Kylie tracks
Kylie Minogue has released four free songs for her fans to download free, to celebrate her Kiss Me Once World Tour...
Links: GayNZ.com
Robertson believes he can unite Labour
Grant Robertson believes he can unify Labour, as he prepares to take on David Cunliffe for the role of Labour leader...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 28 Sep 2013

A tour of Archives New Zealand is held as part of the inaugural Queer Heritage Month. (Wellington, New Zealand)
Links: Gay Express
NZ AIDS Foundation kaumatua Aunty Wai Mason dies (Auckland, New Zealand)
Links: Gay NZ, NZ AIDS Foundation, PrideNZ.com
Findlay showed "utmost integrity" on youth board
Paul Findlay Christchurch-based glbti youth group Q-topia says its embattled ex-board member Paul Findlay acted with "utmost integrity" whilst on the board...
Links: GayNZ.com
Transgender prisoner policy start date unknown
It's too early yet to say when a new policy of housing transgender prisoners according to the gender they identify with will come into effect, according to the Corrections Department...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 28 Sep 2012

Australia continues to "lag behind" Wall says
Louisa Wall With marriage equality failing to get traction with the majority of Australia’s politicians, New Zealand’s marriage equality bill author Louisa Wall says while she feels for our rainbow whanau across the Tasman, the nation is not an example to follow on human rights issues...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tasmania's upper house votes down marriage bill
File photo The frustration continues for Australian marriage equality advocates, with a bill to legalise same-sex marriage voted down in Tasmania’s upper house...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 28 Sep 2011

"That's Dr Topp to you"
GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com
"You can't whisper hate" - Leisha Hailey
Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey "No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn’t make it any less loud...
Links: GayNZ.com
LegaliseLove taking campaign to the street
New glbt rights lobby group LegaliseLove will this Saturday ask Wellingtonians to mark their opposition to homophobia...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 28 Sep 2010

Gay Brits: Dr Peter Saxton's response
Dr Peter Saxton Dr Peter Saxton is the New Zealand AIDS Foundation's Senior Researcher...
Links: GayNZ.com
Government seems to "have it in for students"
A queer student who fought against an ACT-sponsored bill which will make student union membership voluntary is expressing disgust at a select committee's closed ears...
Links: GayNZ.com
Help Out in October!
October has been declared "Gay Crisis Month" and we're all being asked to get our thinking caps on, to help hardworking community groups who are struggling to survive...
Links: GayNZ.com
New lesbian drama on the way for UK
A BBC lesbian drama is causing a stir in the UK before it has even aired...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sarah McLachlan-led show cancelled
Sarah McLachlan The Auckland show in the A Taste of Lilith tour has been cancelled, because one of the acts the Court Yard Hounds had to postpone all their scheduled appearances...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 28 Sep 2009

$2K gift for OUTLine as manager farewelled
The Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust has gifted $2,000 to OUTLine NZ as the embattled phone support service prepares to farewell its General Manager this Wednesday...
Links: GayNZ.com
Friends remember Leah Morrison
21-year-old Aucklander Leah Morrison died suddenly yesterday, and her friends will gather at K' Road's Kamo café and Palmerston North's Club Q tonight (Monday) to remember her...
Links: GayNZ.com
Nicole is Wellington's Miss Fag Hag '09
The crowd went wild at Club Ivy on Saturday night as 21-year-old Nicole Johnston was crowned Miss Fag Hag Wellington 2009...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 28 Sep 2008

Screen legend Paul Newman dies aged 83
Blue-eyed Hollywood star Paul Newman, who broke hearts all around the world as a leading man in the '50's and '60's – and in later life was known for his philanthropy – has lost a long battle with cancer, aged 83...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK: New website for newly HIV+ gay men
A new website from the UK aims to reduce the isolation, fear and myths gay men deal with when there are first diagnosed with HIV...
Links: GayNZ.com
WGN Presbyterians stand against exclusion
St Andrew's on the Terrace Presbyterian Church in Wellington is taking a stand against previous Presbyterian General Assembly decisions to exclude gay and lesbian people from leadership positions in the Presbyterian Church...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 28 Sep 2007

"Cyber attacks disgusting" - Outline NZ
The manager of a prominent LGBT support service has strongly condemned the use of homophobic and racist remarks in cyberspace - and says parents have a moral responsibility to teach their children that "all religions, races and sexual orientations deserve respect”...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hamilton nightclub to get 'Shine' makeover
The nightclub formerly known as Venom on Hamilton's Victoria Street is now being completely re-fitted and will reopen next month with new management and a new name...
Links: GayNZ.com
Keepin' it real at 2007's Doco Film Fest
Along with a spotlight on Iraq, a sporting story collection, a 'heroes and villains' showcase and several new local productions, 2007's DocoNZ festival presents several far-reaching and surprising LGBT stories...
Links: GayNZ.com
US Senate passes gay hate crime bill
In an historic step in equality for gay and bisexual Americans, the US Senate voted yesterday to pass an act which updates and expands hate crimes laws to include violence based on a victim's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, and disability...
Links: GayNZ.com
Web profile abuse was "particularly nasty"
"A particularly nasty example of the prejudice still faced by young people with diverse sexualities and genders" is how a leading youth development project describes the homophobic tirades left on public view on the internet for three weeks after political heavyweight Bill English was alerted that they were apparently the work of his teenage son...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 28 Sep 2006

NZOA research: Kiwifruit responds
Amanda Rees, researcher and presenter on TVNZ's LGBT programme Kiwifruit, has responded to critical research conducted by NZ On Air...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 28 Sep 2005

And the Glammie goes to....!
Photos: Andy Boreham - UP The idea of presenting an award has long been a deep-set fear of mine...
Links: GayNZ.com
Concern over wild AIDS theory
The AIDS Foundation is concerned that the Waikato Times has given credence to a wild discredited conspiracy theory that HIV does not exist, and that AIDS is not a sexually transmitted disease...
Links: GayNZ.com
Pacific "third sex" conference in Auckland
A national conference aimed at transgender people of Pacific origin organised next month by the AIDS Foundation hopes to raise awareness, build support and address health issues...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 28 Sep 2004

"Gay ministers could turn flocks gay"
The Fijian Methodist Church has rejected a request from its New Zealand counterpart to allow the ordinations of gays and lesbians as preachers, saying that homosexual ministers could turn their congregations gay...
Links: GayNZ.com
0900 polls poor example of public feeling
The One News Insight poll on whether gay families are real families shows us little about what New Zealanders really think on the issue, and a lot more about how well organized lobby groups are, according to an Auckland University statistics expert...
Links: GayNZ.com
After gay-friendly Sukhi, what?
Sukhi Turner For the past nine years, Dunedin has been an oasis of diversity in the conservative South under Mayor Sukhi Turner, but is that all about to change? Turner has decided not to run this year, and her decision to endorse Malcolm Farry (a candidate labeled by some as a member of the "old boys club") over some of the more progressive female candidates have led to cries of "sellout"...
Links: GayNZ.com
CU not civil rights - Franks
ACT justice spokesman Stephen Franks was on the attack again yesterday at the select committee hearing on the Civil Union Bill, berating a gay man for calling the right to have his relationship legally recognized "civil rights"...
Links: GayNZ.com
GALS: Two concerts in one!
Time is marching on but there is still time to get your tickets for the next GALS concert...
Links: GayNZ.com
Methodists say yes to GLBT ordination
The Methodist Church in New Zealand has made a landmark decision to allow ordination of gay and lesbian people, though individual church groups may pick and choose who they want as a minister and spome might prefer a non-glbt person...
Links: GayNZ.com
Not again, Brian?
Last Monday 27 September, Brian Tamaki's TV2 Destiny Television (6...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 28 Sep 2002

Michael Pattison gains media attention as an openly gay man competing in the Cleo Bachelor of the Year. (New Zealand)
Pattison has previously won Mr Gay Wellington and Mr Drag Wellington.
Links: Gay NZ, Access My Library

Sat 28 Sep 1996

Television item (New Zealand)
Out There, ref: TZP176665.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 28 Sep 1994

AIDS activist and educator Tom O'Donoghue dies (Wellington, New Zealand)
O'Donoghue was a founding member of the National People Living With AIDS Union and Collective Thinking, a publication for people living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS.
Links: New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt, Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine, Tapatoru

Tue 28 Sep 1993

Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP135839.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Primetime, ref: TZP135853.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 28 Sep 1992

Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP109476.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Fri 28 Sep 1984

Television: A survey by Weight Watchers on sexuality (New Zealand)
ref: TZP131946.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

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