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Mon 3 Oct 2022

  • Rand#257;whiti abuzz as Aquaman star Jason Momoa welcomed to Bay of Islands
    An acting giant with starring roles in Aquaman and Game of Thrones has residents of a tiny Northland settlement bursting with pride after welcoming him to their marae...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • NZ Queer History: Spring Awakenings
    Links: Express
  • Zambia: Political And Religious Leaders Continue To Fuel Anti-LGBTQ+ Sentiments
    Links: Express

Sat 3 Oct 2020

  • 'Saving souls, not lives': Teen patients say they were retraumatised at faith-based mental health clinic
    One former patient at A Girl Called Hope was told her soul was "tied" to her abuser's...
    Links: Stuff

Thu 3 Oct 2019

  • Teacher sacked for refusing to use trans student's pronouns
    In the summer of 2018, a transgender student at West Point High School in West Point, Virginia, had transitioned, asking his French teacher to refer to him with masculine pronouns: he, him, his...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Sean Plunkett Attacks TJ Perenara For Supporting LGBT Community
    Links: Express

Wed 3 Oct 2018

  • Family Planning welcomes resolution on sexual health
    Family Planning New Zealand is thrilled with a landmark resolution which recognises the need for comprehensive sexuality education, and accessible sexual healthcare and services, including safe abortion...
    Links: Scoop
  • Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N....
    Links: Express

Tue 3 Oct 2017

  • 'It's deeply disappointing, but it's not gay': First Rainbow Youth video ad goes viral
    Rainbow Youth has released its first ever national ad campaign with an appeal for people to stop giving the word "gay" a negative conotation...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Cancer survivor talks about struggle with sexuality in boxing industry
    Benjamin Watt's career as a boxing judge continues to grow with the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association, but there was a time he thought he would never make it ringside...
    Links: Stuff
  • BRIEFS’: Close Encounters
    Links: Express
  • RainbowYOUTH’s First Ever Ad Campaign Goes Viral
    Links: Express

Mon 3 Oct 2016

  • Eaten Alive at Down Under
    Links: Express
  • Having the Chat: Micheal McCabe
    Links: Express
  • Swingin’ Saloon
    Links: Express
  • Stealing from a child
    Stealing From a Child: The Injustice of Same-Sex Marriage David Van Gend Connor Court, 2016 Dr David Van Gend is a fundamentalist rural Queensland doctor who lives in Toowoomba, one of the most backward rural centres in Queensland and a hotbed of right-wing extremism in that Australian state for many years...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 3 Oct 2015

  • Author William Taylor dies (Taumarunui, New Zealand)
    Links: GayNZ.com (1), GayNZ.com (2), NZ Society of Authors
  • “Sense of regret” by Pope Over Meeting With Same Sex Marriage...
    Links: Express
  • Church event to share trans stories
    St Matthew in the City will be hosting an evening with Church of England priest Rev Sarah Jones and New Zealand writer Charity Norman, author of The Secret Life of Luke Livingstone...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Trans woman allegedly raped in men's prison
    The group No Pride in Prisons says a prisoner who was has made a rape complaint at an Auckland men's prison is a transgender woman...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Watch: Dropped Pie
    You might just spy a familiar (bearded) face in web series Dropped Pie! LaQuisha St Redfern features in this series about a new dish which is taking the food world by storm...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 3 Oct 2014

  • Ballet’s Artful Beauty
    Links: Express
  • HIV in NZ Today
    Links: Express
  • The Topp Blacks
    Links: Express
  • Ebola: No time for 'compassion fatigue'
    I've heard some LGBT individuals inside and outside New Zealand seriously debating whether or not we should join other Commonwealth countries in providing medical and humanitarian support for West African nations hit by the Ebola virus...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Heritage Festival: They make us proud
    October is LGBT History Month...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mr Gay India joins reality TV show
    India’s Mr Gay World contestant Sushant Divgikar hopes his participation in the reality show “Bigg Boss 8″ will change public perceptions about the LGBT community in India...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 3 Oct 2013

  • Kitty - South (Nelson)
    Kitty talks about being a self-identified dyke and activism around marriage equality.
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Aunty Wai laid to rest at Waikumete
    'Aunty' Wai Mason was buried late yesterday afternoon after a three-day tangi held at Auckland's Te Unga Waka marae...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Group wants Putin for Nobel Peace Prize
    A Russian advocacy group is attempting to nominate the ‘Czar of homophobia’ Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Maketu woman's hen becoming a rooster
    A Maketu woman says her hen is transitioning into a rooster, something Google has informed her happens to one in 10,000 hens...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Yet another LYC ad complaint turfed out
    A fresh complaint about a Get It On! billboard has been dismissed...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 3 Oct 2012

  • Date set for capital's gay fair, Out in the Square
    Out in the Square will return to Wellington on Saturday the 19th of January 2013, and while a fabulous day is promised, organisers are keeping their cards close to their chests for now...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marriage Equality: Auckland No?
    When it came to the Colmar/Brunton poll on marriage equality poll, I wasn't particularly surprised to see Auckland trailing other New Zealand metropolitan centres...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 3 Oct 2011

  • A couple's car is targetted in an ongoing series of hate crimes at Mangawhai Heads
  • Couple's car targeted in fresh bout of hate
    The damage to the couple's car Mangawhai Heads women Lindsay Curnow and Juliet Leigh have been hit by yet another hate crime, and this time their car has been targeted...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rainbow Wellington's party questionnaire
    Rainbow Wellington has collated the responses it's had from the majority of major parties to a number of crucial questions heading into the election...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 3 Oct 2009

  • Dykes show off their doggies for calendar
    A new NZ-made calendar shows that man's best friend is a lesbian's best buddy too...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Raped transwoman harassed via Facebook
    A Welsh transwoman who was raped by an attacker who was jailed for eight years this week, says she was forced to move house after her identity was made public...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 3 Oct 2008

  • Aku Hammond
    Aku Hammond: Mr...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Deconstructing 'Value Your Vote'
    Value Your Vote: Family First's judgemental new website Why doesn't the Value Your Vote website tally with Family First's obvious political orientation toward the National Party? Let me explain...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay couple features in winning short story
    An observational short story which features a gay couple has won the 2008 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Premier Award...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Melissa Etheridge makes wedding plans
    Rock singer Melissa Etheridge says she'll marry her long-term partner Tammy Lynn Michaels before California's vote on same-sex marriages next month...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Week of events builds Hamilton Pride
    This week's Hamilton Pride events have so-far been as successful as last year, says the Waikato's best-known drag icon, but now the countdown is on to the main event – the Shine Dance Party tomorrow night...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 3 Oct 2007

  • "Get your local council vote in now" - Prager
    A poll last weekend suggested John Banks is ahead in the race to again become Auckland's mayor - but lesbian candidate Lisa Prager isn't phased: "The only poll I believe is the one on 13 October, when the public votes are counted," she declares...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • California: School 'outed' lesbian student
    A lesbian high school student who sued a Californian school and her principal for revealing her homosexuality to her mother did not have her rights violated, a federal judge has ruled...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • From Culture War to Cold War...?
    As time goes on, the New Zealand Christian Right is divided over its choice of targets...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Missing Hastings man seen on bus
    4PM: There has been a positive sighting of missing gay Hastings man Cameron Dormer, whose burnt out car was found near Katikati on Saturday...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Missing man found alive and well in WGN
    Hastings man Cameron Dormer, whose mysterious disappearance at the weekend created a search spanning much of the North Island, has been found alive and well in a Wellington motel...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 3 Oct 2006

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Kiwifruit, ref: TZP327911.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television item (New Zealand)
    One News, ref: TZP326243.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Brethren investigator
    The investigator hired by the homophobic Exclusive Brethren religious sect to tail Prime Minister Helen Clark assaulted a man in custody and kicked a senior police officer in the groin during a bar-room brawl 25 years ago, the Herald reported today...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Christian Heritage closes
    The Christian Heritage Party is closing down, citing the conviction of its former leader Graham Capill as a main reason, reports the NZPA...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cruise Control, by Robert Weiss
    There's a recent new book that claims that some gay men suffer from "sex addiction...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Cruise Control, by Robert Weiss
    There's a recent new book that claims that some gay men suffer from "sex addiction...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Enclave of Exclusion?
    How should LGBT post-Christians or nontheists deal with the Presbyterian Church and its continued discrimination against lesbian and gay candidates for ordination? Unfortunately, the debate shows no sign of abating, and this time, it may be the case that liberal congregations might have finally decided that they have had enough of fundamentalist stacking tactics, and secede from the church, leaving a fundamentalist rump...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Ms Fortuna
    Ms Fortuna The Australian star of burlesque performance is heading to Auckland to present two of her cheekiest shows as part of our NZ Festival of Dance...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 3 Oct 2005

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    The Outhouse, ref: TZP312092.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Lesbian Balls... the truth revealed!
    For years, lesbian balls have had an air of secrecy about them to rival the Freemasons...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 3 Oct 2004

  • P newsreader's sitcom lifestyle
    Former P-popping gay newsreader Darren McDonald has swapped his anchoring skills for what sounds like the lead role in a bizarre real-life 70's-tinged sitcom...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sturm case back in Appeals Court
    Auckland restaurateur Philip Sturm is back in court, appealing his December 2003 conviction of sexually violating four young men after giving them drugs, for which he was sentenced to nine years jail...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 3 Oct 2002

Tue 3 Oct 2000

Fri 3 Oct 1997

  • A Christchurch Rainbow branch of the Labour Party is established by Tim Barnett (Christchurch, New Zealand)
    The first Rainbow branch was established in Auckland by MP Chris Carter on 17 March 1997. The establishment of the branches marked the birth of Rainbow Labour. The Rainbow Sector Council within the Labour Party was formed shortly afterwards, which gave the branches a nationwide focus and co-ordinating body.

Mon 3 Oct 1988

  • Television item (New Zealand)
    Eyewitness News, ref: TZP49135.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
  • Television news report: Department of Health targets heterosexuals with HIV/AIDS advertising (New Zealand)
    The report notes there could be 5,000 people with HIV in New Zealand. Interviewees include Dr Karen Potasi, Kate Leslie, Daniel Fielding, Dr Kitty Corxan and Dr Steven Gardiner. Eyewitness news, ref F94906.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Thu 3 Oct 1985

Fri 3 Oct 1980

  • Television: Vice Squad seize copies of a "Salient" newspaper containing a comic about homosexuality (Wellington, New Zealand)
    ref: TZP4997. Victoria University student newspaper "Salient" had all its remaining copies seized by Wellington's Vice Squad, because it contained a comic strip about homosexuality.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Mon 3 Oct 1977

Thu 3 Oct 1974

  • Television news report: moral educational studies at Naenae College in Lower Hutt (Wellington region, New Zealand)
    ref: TZP131964.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Sat 3 Oct 1925

  • Kenneth James Dell is hospitalised on the morning of his court appearance (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Links: Papers Past

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