On This Day: 24th November

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Fri 24 Nov 2023

Rainbow Bridge: Police identify couple killed in US-Canada border crash
Police have identified the victims of a deadly car blast at a border crossing between the US and Canada...
Links: RNZ
Opinion: The Three-Legged Stool
Links: Express

Thu 24 Nov 2022

David Farrier: Exposes An Organ
Links: Express
Royal New Zealand Ballet Has Crossed The Queer Frontier
Links: Express

Wed 24 Nov 2021

Bob The Drag Queen Interview: “We Are Everywhere”
Links: Express
Exclusive Interview: Activist Peter Tatchell
Links: Express
Jonathan Cohen: An Instrumental Part of the APO
Links: Express
Opinion: Power Dynamics in Gay Relationships
Links: Express

Tue 24 Nov 2020

Trans medical support a postcode lottery
Access to gender affirming medical services is a postcode lottery and healthcare workers say it's harming transgender and gender diverse New Zealanders...
Links: RNZ

Sun 24 Nov 2019

OUT and ABOUT | DRAG WARS ALL STARS!
Links: Express

Sat 24 Nov 2018

Cissy Rock - Aucklands Pride Parade (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Cissy Rock, President of the Auckland Pride Board talks to Kim Hill about the controversies surrounding the 2019 Auckland Pride Parade
Features: Cissy Rock
Links: PrideNZ.com
Government seeks quick ruling on transgender troops case
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon's policy of restricting military service by transgender people...
Links: NZ Herald
Taiwan votes on same-sex marriage
Taiwan is voting on whether to become the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage...
Links: RNZ
‘Rainbow Wave’ Sees record number of LGBT candidates elected in latest...
Links: Express
All Blacks to Wear Rainbow Laces to Show Support of Homophobic...
Links: Express
Givealittle Page Started as Corporate Sponsors Abandon Auckland Pride
Links: Express
Out and About with express: Shortland Street the Musical: Opening Night...
Links: Express
URGE Turns 21!! In Pictures
Links: Express

Fri 24 Nov 2017

History to be made by NZ weightlifting team in Gold Coast
A transgender athlete has been named in the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team for the first time...
Links: RNZ
New Zealand transgender weightlifter creates uneven playing field, says Australia's weightlifting chief
Australia's weightlifting chief says New Zealand's selection of transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard will create an uneven playing field at next year's Commonwealth Games...
Links: Stuff
Teamate unhappy with inclusion of transgender athlete
Tracey Lambrech, who won a bronze medal at the Glagow Games, has been forced to drop down a class with the arrival of Laurel Hubbard on the women's weight lifting scene...
Links: RNZ
Teammate unhappy with inclusion of transgender athlete in NZ team
The selection of transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for the Commonwealth Games doesn't sit well with one of her teammates...
Links: RNZ
Transgender lifter Laurel Hubbard picked in Commonwealth Games team
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games...
Links: NZ Herald
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard becomes NZ's first transgender Commonwealth Games athlete
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has become the first transgender athlete named in a New Zealand Commonwealth Games team...
Links: Stuff
Weightlifting: Kiwi lifter Tracey Lambrechs drops more than 17kg to pursue dream
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's selection as the first transgender athlete to represent New Zealand at a Commonwealth Games forced veteran Tracey Lambrechs to "train like a beast"...
Links: NZ Herald
Laurel Hubbard Chosen for the Commonwealth Games Team
Links: Express
Unique Summer Dinner to Raise Funds For RainbowYOUTH
Links: Express

Thu 24 Nov 2016

Legacy Project Looking for Actors
Links: Express
Sign the Petition to Stop Withholding HIV Medication
Links: Express
Outing Violence: Analysing the data
Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura – Outing Violence released a report earlier this year, based on 18 community hui and a survey for people identifying under the Rainbow umbrella about experiences in relationships, sexual encounters, and help-seeking around partner and sexual violence...
Links: GayNZ.com
Petition to pressure Pharmac over HIV meds
Three years after a irrefutable case was made by HIV organisations and specialists the NZAF is reporting to an online petition to pressure Pharmac to actually fund the recommended medication regime...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tamaki comments see OUTLine calls at record high
The number of calls to OUTLine have hit a new high, with members of the LGBTI community making contact following the recent comments made by Destiny Church’s Brian Tamaki...
Links: GayNZ.com
The bad times: When Ellen DeGeneres came out
With the passage of time it's easy to forget the uproar and viciousness which was directed at US comedienne and TV star Ellen DeGeneres when she came out in 1996...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK man guilty of four dating app murders
A gay man in the UK has been found guilty of the murders of four young gay men he connected up with on dating apps...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 24 Nov 2015

Report: HIV Crisis Worsened by Anti-Gay Laws in Commonwealth Countries
Links: Express

Mon 24 Nov 2014

Nashville to Host Next Bingham Cup
Links: Express
Perth Celebrates GLBT Pride Festival
Links: Express
25 years of RainbowYOUTH: Clint Woolly
Former Rainbow Youth board member Clint Woolly’s video for Rainbow Youth’s 25th birthday was so gorgeous we just had to share it...
Links: GayNZ.com
Andrew Little gives Robertson key role
Grant Robertson After missing out on the Labour leadership, Grant Robertson is Labour’s new Finance spokesman and third in the party rankings...
Links: GayNZ.com
Wgtn marriage campaigner remembered
Picture thanks to Kris Ericksen Rainbow Wellington is paying tribute to former member and marriage equality campaigner Jeremy Green, who died suddenly just over a week ago...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 24 Nov 2013

Rev. Dr. Margaret Mayman - last reflection (St Andrew's on the Terrace)
Audio of Rev. Dr. Margaret Maymans last reflection
Features: Margaret Mayman
Links: PrideNZ.com
Margaret Mayman bids adieu
Margaret Mayman has hosted her final service at St Andrew’s on The Terrace...
Links: GayNZ.com
Margaret Mayman bids adieu
Margaret Mayman has hosted her final service at St Andrew’s on The Terrace...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 24 Nov 2012

Butch Femme Queer Feminist Elders (Auckland Trades Hall)
Audio from the Butch Femme Queer Feminist Elders panel discussion, held at Trades Hall in Grey Lynn on 24 November 2012
Features: Marewa Glover, unidentified voice(s), Wai Ho
Links: PrideNZ.com
Jack Body - Carmen - Songs and Dances of Desire (Wellington)
Jack Body talks about writing Songs and Dances of Desire - a work inspired by Carmen Rupe and Georges Bizet
Features: Jack Body
Links: PrideNZ.com
Rare tie in NZAF Trust Board election result
In a rare outcome of voting a Special General Meeting of the NZ AIDS Foundation will have to be called after two candidates tied for third place in the election of three new Trust Board members...
Links: GayNZ.com
Uganda drops death penalty from anti-gay bill
The death penalty has been dropped from Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, with the life imprisonment now to be the punishment for "aggravated homosexuality"...
Links: GayNZ.com
Winning words
Wellington’s Ali Jacs has taken out the National Poetry Slam with a hilariously clever piece called “equality”, which also has plenty of serious messages about the fight for marriage equality...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 24 Nov 2011

Ribbon clash not expected to hurt appeal
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is not expecting any negative impact on its proceeds due to the World AIDS Day collection being held on the same day as White Ribbon Day...
Links: GayNZ.com
St Petersburg's glbti silencing bill delayed
St Petersburg's Parliament is reviewing a bill banning so-called "gay propaganda that targets children"...
Links: GayNZ.com
United Kingdom: Spending Cuts Don't Heal
The Occupy movement has arisen in response to corporate and financial sector irresponsibility and government spending cuts...
Links: GayNZ.com
Vote 11: Meet your glbt candidates
We count 16 out candidates in this weekend's General Election, seven of whom are almost guaranteed seats in Parliament, and a couple of others who have a chance at nabbing one...
Links: GayNZ.com
Vote 11: Meet your glbt candidates
We count 16 out candidates in this weekend's General Election, seven of whom are almost guaranteed seats in Parliament, and a couple of others who have a chance at nabbing one...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 24 Nov 2010

"Breakthrough" drug met with hope and caution
A study which shows a drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer men who have sex with men some protection against contracting the virus is being met with hope, but HIV experts say there are still three significant hurdles: its cost, the risks of drug-resistant strains of HIV developing and taking a drug treatment every day...
Links: GayNZ.com
"Breakthrough" drug met with hope and caution
A study which shows a drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer men who have sex with men some protection against contracting the virus is being met with hope, but HIV experts say there are still three significant hurdles: its cost, the risks of drug-resistant strains of HIV developing and taking a drug treatment every day...
Links: GayNZ.com
Drug can "greatly reduce" risk of HIV infection
Authors of a new study say a drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer men who have sex with men some protection against contracting the virus...
Links: GayNZ.com
Drug can "greatly reduce" risk of HIV infection
Authors of a new study say a drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer men who have sex with men some protection against contracting the virus...
Links: GayNZ.com
Drug can "greatly reduce" risk of HIV infection
Authors of a new study say a drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer men who have sex with men some protection against contracting the virus...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sia Furler to add a queer note to Big Day Out
Bi Aussie musician Sia has been added to the Big Day Out line-up, continuing the massive Australasian summer festival's history of support for queer musicians...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 24 Nov 2009

The second and third readings of the Crimes (Provocation Repeal) Amendment Bill takes place in Parliament (New Zealand)
The removal of the provocation defence - also known as the gay panic defence (Section 169 of the Crimes Act 1961) was in part due to a public outcry when it was used in a heterosexual context by Clayton Weatherston. He claimed he was provoked into stabbing his ex-girlfriend 216 times. He was eventually convicted of her murder. Parliament completes the Second Reading, Committee of the Whole House and Third Reading of the Bill in one sitting day.
Links: Parliament, NZ Herald, GayNZ.com
Adam Lambert kiss highlights 'double standard'
American Idol's runner-up Adam Lambert shared a kiss with his male keyboard player and simulated oral sex on stage at the American Music Awards last night - prompting complaints from some viewers upset by his sexy antics...
Links: GayNZ.com
My life in the Exclusive Brethren
20-year-old Craig Hoyle, like generations of his family, was brought up in the Exclusive Brethren Church...
Links: GayNZ.com
Out Wellington plans LGBT youth art exhibition
Out Wellington Inc...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 24 Nov 2008

24 hours mark World AIDS Day on MTV
Sky channel MTV NZ will screen a 24-hour selection of programming for World AIDS Day 2008 on Monday 1 December as part of MTV's ongoing HIV and AIDS Staying Alive prevention campaign...
Links: GayNZ.com
AUS: Gold-winning diver is a "humble hero"
Olympic gold-winning diver Matthew Mitcham is staying modest and grounded despite gaining worldwide fame as a gay sporting icon, reports South Australia's Blaze gay newspaper...
Links: GayNZ.com
The flightless 'Kiwi Party'
The Christian Right seem to be rather cool when it comes to the advent of John Key as Prime Minister, and a National-led government...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 24 Nov 2007

Peter Tatchell to mark 40 years of activism
The UK's most outspoken and high-profile gay equality campaigner will soon mark 40 years of being "homophobes' enemy number one"...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 24 Nov 2006

Auckland drag cabaret bar for sale
A popular K' Road drag cabaret bar is for sale – for a cool $1 million...
Links: GayNZ.com
Brash book uncovers brushes with Brethren
A book released today reveals the full extent of the homophobic Religious Brethren's dealings with the National Party in the run-up to last years' election...
Links: GayNZ.com
Citizens Referenda
Former Leader of the Opposition Don Brash appeared to think that human rights, like civil union laws, should be subject to referendum...
Links: GayNZ.com
Editorial: The Brash legacy - expediency over decency?
This is the story of two neophyte politicians on opposite trajectories...
Links: GayNZ.com
Neil Denney of Gayline/Lesbianline
Neil Denney Neil, 45, is the new general manager of the Gay and Lesbian Welfare Group...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 24 Nov 2005

"My Monday Night With Gay Telly"
Out of a sense of duty I tuned into Kiwifruit, and was rewarded with a fun (and breathless) show! Donald Hollingsworth visited an Erotica Lifestyle show that proved to be mainly for the straights except for a drink named "Gay"...
Links: GayNZ.com
Queer TV station coming to NZ
American LGBT television network Q Television has announced it will become available in Australasia through digital channel SelecTV...
Links: GayNZ.com
The Muttley Army?
With the Maxim Institute in the doldrums after Logangate, has Gordon Copeland chosen the wrong time to grandstand over the DOMB? On 7 December, the Marriage (Gender Clarification) Bill will receive its first reading...
Links: GayNZ.com
The NZAF Board: Sticking to its knitting
NZAF deputy board chair Jeremy Lambert is taking his first post-AGM interview from a sick bed, but it's nothing to do with the events of Saturday's meeting – rather a badly-timed case of food poisoning...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 24 Nov 2004

Elton John's Peachtree Road
So much is said about Elton John's celebrity status and lifestyle in both the gay and straight media these days that it's been years since his music has got a look-in, which is a definite shame...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hero's nail in the sniper's coffin
An assertion that Hero is "dead and buried" is certainly news to Brand Management Group spokesman Mike Binis, and he was all the more surprised to read it in Express...
Links: GayNZ.com
Maxim: They ain't ever going to be respectable...
The Maxim Institute seems to take my column seriously, which is a compliment...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK Civil Partnership victory sends message to NZ
The passage of British law giving civil partnership rights to gay couples sends an important and timely signal to New Zealand MPs considering our own Civil Union Bill, says Labour MP Russell Fairbrother...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 24 Nov 2003

Backs to the wall, heads in the sand
Rape ain't nothing to joke about - unless it's between men...
Links: GayNZ.com
Cabaret spectacular this week at Pound
Pound in Wellington is being taken over for an action-packed evening of cabaret this Sunday in support of the Chrissie Witako Memorial Teapot Trust...
Links: GayNZ.com
Cocktails with Sir Ian in Wellington
A unique opportunity for gay Lord of the Rings fans to meet Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf in the film trilogy, is taking place this Friday in Wellington...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hartnell's not giving up anytime soon
Longtime celebrity gossip David Hartnell is to launch a new book of Hollywood trivia and celebrity birthdays next month over afternoon tea at Auckland's Carlton Hotel...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 24 Nov 2002

Peters and Dalziel clash over "homosexual immigration"
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has criticised the use of the term "family homosexual category" in a letter from the Immigration Service to a new migrant given residency...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 24 Nov 1997

Television item (New Zealand)
One Network News, ref: TZP192573.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Wed 24 Nov 1993

David Halls (Hudson and Halls) is found dead in his apartment (London, United Kingdom)
Halls commits suicide after his partner Peter Hudson died from cancer a year earlier. Halls wrote "Without Peter I don't want to go on - he was my life, and I have no regrets. I love him now as much as I always did and I want to be with him for all eternity."
Television item (New Zealand)
Holmes, ref: TZP136765.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television item (New Zealand)
Network News, ref: TZP137087.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
The Homophony concert takes place (Wellington, New Zealand)
The concert at St Andrew's was part of the Devotion festival, and was organised by Matthew Soeburg and Gareth Farr. It featured Soeburg on the piano.
Links: National Library

Tue 24 Nov 1992

Television item (Australia)
Network News, ref: TZP112287.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Thu 24 Nov 1983

Television: Australasian physician conference goers in Dunedin preparing for AIDS arrival (New Zealand)
ref: TZP137997.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television: Australian Professor thinks that AIDS will not spread as quickly in New Zealand as it has elsewhere (New Zealand)
ref: TZP137991.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television: Concert goers turn out for David Bowie at Athletic Park (Wellington, New Zealand)
ref: TZP17410.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television: David Bowie visits a Porirua marae (Wellington region, New Zealand)
ref: TZP17517.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision
Television: Preparing for David Bowie's concert in Wellington (Wellington region, New Zealand)
ref: TZP15136.
Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

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