On This Day: 18th December

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Mon 18 Dec 2023

Head boy comes out as gay during powerful school prizegiving speech
Harry Dynes hopes others will take inspiration from his speech...
Links: NZ Herald

Fri 18 Dec 2020

Taking Pride in Periods
Links: Express
The Outrageous Miss Ribena’s Next Act
Links: Express

Wed 18 Dec 2019

Hallmark Pulls Lesbian Wedding Ad after Homophobic Backlash
Links: Express

Tue 18 Dec 2018

Could Botswana’s High Court Decriminalise Homosexuality in 2019?
Links: Express
No Pride Parade, Gala, or Party For Auckland in 2019
Links: Express

Mon 18 Dec 2017

Mr Gay New Zealand 2018 Registrations Now Open
Mr Gay New Zealand 2018 Registrations Now Open FINALE AT ENDING HIV BIG GAY OUT FEB 11 ...
Links: Scoop
Rainbow Pacific : Leilani Sio
My first guest of the week wants to wrap a big gay rainbow around Wellington next month...
Links: RNZ
25 Years of GALS
Links: Express
Having the Chat: Frances Arns
Links: Express
Keeping Your Pride
Links: Express

Sun 18 Dec 2016

Doctor homophobically abuses hospital patient
An apparently drunk and stressed doctor entered a patient's room at Waikato Hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning and repeatedly called the man a faggot...
Links: GayNZ.com
The glbti-friendly DLO police in your area
Throughout the country the NZ Police have what they quaintly call Diversity Liaison Officers, basically glbti or glbti-friendly officers who are available to assist people from our communities who might be uncomfortable dealing with run of the mill officers...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 18 Dec 2015

American Man Sentenced To Jail For Operating Gay Sex Slave Ring
Links: Express
Slovenia Puts Marriage Equality to a Referendum
Links: Express
AKL Pride Parade ‘16 may be larger than last
The Auckland Pride Festival has received a large number of expressions of interest, with over 50 different organisations and groups wishing to take part in the 2016 parade...
Links: GayNZ.com
Anika Moa pops the question to TV3 journalist
Anika Moa has proposed to her partner, journalist Natasha Utting...
Links: GayNZ.com
Fronting Up: Pride responds to criticism, pt1
Auckland Pride board member Shirley Allan It's no secret that the Auckland Pride Festival organsation has repeatedly come under fire for its lack of communication, accountability and responsiveness...
Links: GayNZ.com
Out and Bad: London's LGBT Dancehall Scene
With Jamaican lesbian reggae singer-songwriter Diana King now on the lineup of the Raggamuffin Festival in February here's a great doco on how the Jamaican lgbti music scene has become an integral part of London's lgbti culture...
Links: GayNZ.com
Tasmania to move on historic convictions
Tasmanian gay rights advocates have welcomed a state government announcement that it will move legislation next year to allow criminal records for gay sex to be expunged...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 18 Dec 2014

JK Rowling Responds to Question of GLBT Students at Hogwarts
Links: Express
Auckland Pride 2015: event snapshot
Some of the many events which will fill the extended three week 2015 Auckland Pride Festival programme have been revealed...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZ singled out for stabilised HIV rates
As we buck worldwide trends of rising HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men, New Zealand has been singled out by the prestigious Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal...
Links: GayNZ.com
UK group claims quake 'destroyed' Wgtn
A right-wing fringe group in the UK has questioned whether marriage equality in New Zealand led to the “destruction of Wellington” in an earthquake...
Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 18 Dec 2013

High syphilis rate amongst gay and bi men
An extreme case of syphilis rash Syphilis is alarmingly prevalent amongst NZ gay and bi men and those infected with the sexually transmitted infection are more likely to be also infected with HIV, newly-released research confirms...
Links: GayNZ.com
Hope 4AM closing will clean up K' Rd
Grady Elliott hopes the changes stop people hanging around in the street until daylight (picture thanks to Andrea) The all-night party is over for some of the nation’s gay hotspots, but at least one K' Rd bar owner hopes a blanket closing time will begin to ‘clean up the street’...
Links: GayNZ.com
Man who fled NZ prison jailed in UK
Michael Polding and Ricardo Pisano A man who once escaped from a New Zealand prison is behind bars again, after being jailed for more than 18 years for the manslaughter of a man he met after advertising himself as a male prostitute...
Links: GayNZ.com
Silo announces new Artistic Director
Sophie Roberts An Auckland theatre company with a rich history of powerful gay productions has announced its new Artistic Director...
Links: GayNZ.com
This Is Your Life: Peter Taylor (Part 3)
One of the surprise guests at the tribute night was one of Peter Taylor's oldest and dearest friends, Elaine Saunderson...
Links: GayNZ.com
This Is Your Life: Peter Taylor (Part 4)
One of Peter Taylor's greatest loves were horses...
Links: GayNZ.com
US sending Billie Jean King to Sochi
Lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King has been selected as part of the US delegation to the Winter Olympics in increasingly anti-gay Russia...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 18 Dec 2011

Carmen's life to be celebrated at Wgtn function
Carmen Rupe R...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 18 Dec 2010

Interview panelist supports NZAF appointment
Jonathan Smith Another person involved in the process of selecting the new head of the AIDS Foundation is publicly supporting the appointment of Shaun Robinson, saying the new Executive Director will be working with a strong team of experts in policy, prevention and support who understand HIV and the gay community...
Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 18 Dec 2009

BBC regrets 'Should gays face execution?' question
The director of the BBC's World Service has apologised for its "Should homosexuals face execution?" debate, admitting the question was "too stark...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF wants your views on its new plan
The NZ AIDS Foundation's strategic plan for the next five years are now under consideration, and the Foundation now invites feedback from the community...
Links: GayNZ.com
Sex, shame and society
What does 'shame' really mean in the context of sexual politics and LGBT communities? Or in wider social and political contexts that affect us? As often tends to be the case, Canada's Xtra had a thought-provoking recent article on the subject of shame and sexual health and what it might mean...
Links: GayNZ.com
The 12 Gays of Christmas
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me: TWELVE DANCING QUEENS! Hold onto your jingle bells and prepare to be sleighed as a dozen fabulous dancers tackle the rocked-out Christmas carol 12 Days of Christmas on the video clip below...
Links: GayNZ.com
The joy of drunk 'straight' guys
At this time of year, sexual boundaries become fluid or even disappear altogether under the influence of copious amounts of booze...
Links: GayNZ.com
The joy of drunk 'straight' guys
At this time of year, sexual boundaries become fluid or even disappear altogether under the influence of copious amounts of booze...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 18 Dec 2008

25 most influential gay Aussies named
Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham, Hollywood actress Portia di Rossi and retiring High Court judge Michael Kirby are on 2008's Top 25 list of Most Influential Gay and Lesbian Australians on popular LGBT website SameSame...
Links: GayNZ.com
HIV respite plan shelved as recession hits
Funding cuts are hitting HIV+ support group Body Positive and services next year will have to be cut, says its manager...
Links: GayNZ.com
QWU pageant film premieres, funds given
The cast and crew of November's Queen of the Whole Universe drag fundraiser got to see themselves on the big screen last night at the 'world premiere' of QWU on Film at Auckland's Academy Cinema...
Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 18 Dec 2007

Blair Marshall: Behind-the-scenes at Family bar
Blair Marshall Blair Marshall, 24, has been a vital member of the team at Auckland's gayest nightclub since its early days...
Links: GayNZ.com
Defence: Brown 'may have drugged killer'
11...
Links: GayNZ.com
Trans student barred from men's locker room
A college student from Massachusetts has been barred from using the men's locker room because school administrators are concerned that he might be attacked...
Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 18 Dec 2006

Investigate Magazine
Agnes-Mary Brooke, neoconservative Catholic and children's author, really shouldn't have slummed it so badly...
Links: GayNZ.com
New-look HIV pill reduces side-effects
A new formulation of the HIV medication Kaletra, with reduced side effects, is now available in New Zealand...
Links: GayNZ.com
NZAF cautions over circumcision research
Circumcision cannot beat condoms as the best prevention against HIV for gay and bisexual men, says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, following recent media reports of two major studies of heterosexual men in Africa...
Links: GayNZ.com
Soy Milk Silliness
My former GayNZ...
Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 18 Dec 2004

Hubbard regrets offending gays
Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard has said he deeply regrets offending the gay community over a letter he signed which alleged gay parents were more likely to abuse and murder their children...
Links: GayNZ.com
Iconic gay bar goes hetero
Landmark Auckland gay bar Surrender Dorothy is going hetero, as owner Robert Street sells up to new owner Lyndsay Sorrell, who wants a "local bar for local people"...
Links: GayNZ.com
Unitarianism: Religion, reason and LGBT rights
Some months or so ago two Unitarian lesbian ministers in the United States were charged with criminal acts because they were conducting same-sex marriages...
Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 18 Dec 2003

Two-faced Brown supports Censor
Gay chief censor Bill Hastings is receiving support this week for his controversial decision to ban a violent video game – from the same man who suggested in October that Hastings sexuality was affecting his ability to censor...
Links: GayNZ.com
Words of Brian not factual, rules BSA
Several complaints against Pastor Brian Tamaki's antigay broadcasts on TV2 have been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority, with TVNZ's response to viewer complaints being deemed insufficient...
Links: GayNZ.com

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