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Thu 22 Dec 2022

  • Exclusive: Drag Race Down Under Winner Kita Mean Hospitalised
    Links: Express

Wed 22 Dec 2021

  • New Year’s Eve: The Campest Places To Camp
    Links: Express

Tue 22 Dec 2020

  • The ban on blood donations by gay men
    New Zealand is making inroads to change the rules regarding blood donation by gay and bisexual men...
    Links: RNZ

Sat 22 Dec 2018

  • Transgender Kiwi dad gives birth to baby girl
    A Dunedin transgender person who contested the city's mayoralty in 2016 has given birth to a baby daughter...
    Links: NZ Herald

Fri 22 Dec 2017

  • Australian High Commission Celebrations
    Links: Express
  • JessB Coming Through
    Links: Express

Thu 22 Dec 2016

  • Large bequest will increase financial stability of BP
    A large bequest left to the largest national HIV-positive people's advocacy and support organisation may see Body Positive able to purchase an office building in Auckland, allowing it to build equity in the property and steady its fluctuating finances...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Top 12 2016 World Politics and Religion Stories
    Top 12 2016 World Politics and Religion Stories As the year draws inexorably to a close, it's time to present the top twelve politics and religion stories from around the world or 2016...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Dec 2015

  • US Drops Lifetime Ban On Gay Blood
    Links: Express
  • Marco Rubio: Last Man Standing?
    Who is Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and why does he seem to be increasingly prominent as the Republican candidacy pool starts to evaporate? Given the inordinate media focus on Donald Trump, the backgrounds and problematic extremist political values of his rival Republican candidates have not received as much protracted critical analysis as they should...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Slovenian Referendum rejects same-sex marriage
    Voters in a Slovenian referendum have rejected an amendment to the country’s marriage law that would allow same-sex couples to wed...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • World AIDS Day collection figures drop
    The World AIDS Day street collection figures have been calculated and the amount raised this year comes in at just over $24,000, the lowest it has been in three years...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 22 Dec 2014

  • Elton John Marries Long Term Partner
    Links: Express
  • Queer Hip Hop – A Couple of Places to Start
    Links: Express
  • Carlson still NZ's fave female comedian
    Urzila Carlson has been named New Zealand’s best female comedian for the fifth year running...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Outgames Exec. Committee announced
    The Executive Committee has been appointed for Auckland’s 2016 Asia Pacific Outgames, and is now on the hunt for sponsors...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quick QandA with the Hamilton Pride team
    The new Hamilton Pride crew have one successful festival under their belts...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Sir Elton and David Furnish tie the knot
    UK: Sir Elton John and David Furnish have married in a star-studded bash at their estate in Berkshire...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 22 Dec 2013

  • Nigeria, Uganda getting hate for Christmas
    File Photo Amnesty International is urging Nigeria's president to reject a bill that would outlaw same-sex marriage and criminalise displays of affection between gay couples, while Uganda's anti-gay bill is being described as "the worst in the world"...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Our favourite things of 2013: Arts and Entertainment
    Never mind the dog bites and bee stings, here are our favourite things from the world of entertainment (with a slant towards our communities of course) in 2013! Films Behind The Candelabra We found the recreation of a type of gilded and affluent gay life aspired to by many gay men in the liberating, hedonistic '70s, here in New Zealand as well as in the USA, spot on...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 22 Dec 2012

  • Does justice apply in NZ?
    Not if you are transgender or transsexual, you make an error of judgement and fall foul of the Police, the Justice Department of Corrections and you are in real trouble even before you have been charged, let alone found guilty...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pope unleashes anti-gay/trans Christmas address
    The Pope has gone on a tirade against marriage equality, sexual orientation and gender identity in his annual Christmas address...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 22 Dec 2011

  • Are you the next Mr Gay NZ?
    Mr Gay NZ 2011 Aaron Comis It's that time again! After Mr Gay New Zealand 2011 Aaron Comis' success in the Philippines, GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Glbti services on holiday but basic services continue
    Most organisations providing counselling and support services to the glbti community are taking a break with some already closed from today until around January 9th or later...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Dec 2010

  • Dot's to close, but going out with a bang
    The owners of Auckland bar Dot's have announced it is to close, with New Year's Eve to be its final night...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • From pop to beyond: the best of 2010
    There is nothing that stirs up debate than end of year 'best of' music lists, so we've decided to do some of our own! GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • MP delighted at UN's quick turnaround
    Maryan Street Labour Rainbow MP Maryan Street is pleased the United Nations has restored a reference to gay killings in a resolution condemning unjustified executions, saying it shows the UN listens when people speak up...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Nats angered by Shipley's liberal leanings
    Jenny Shipley A WikiLeaks cable claims former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley angered her colleagues with her liberal leanings on issues such as gay rights...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pope's condom use comments clarified
    The Vatican has "clarified" the pope's comments about condoms and HIV, saying he never suggested condom use could be condoned for preventing pregnancy...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • UN restores reference to gay killings
    The United Nations has restored a reference to killings due to sexual orientation to a resolution condemning unjustified executions...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 22 Dec 2009

  • "Bigot" ex-MP becomes human rights panellist
    Ex-National MP Brian Neeson has been appointed to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, despite voting against equality and anti-discrimination measures for LGBT people at every opportunity while he was in parliament in the 1990s...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Mexico City legalises same-sex marriage, adoption
    "Yes, we could! Yes, we could!" chanted marriage equality supporters as Mexico City lawmakers passed a bill to legalise same-sex marriage...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New call for ban on bareback porn production
    California's AIDS Healthcare Foundation is planning to file a petition which could see a ban on the production of 'bareback' condomless porn...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • New call for ban on bareback porn production
    California's AIDS Healthcare Foundation is planning to file a petition which could see a ban on the production of 'bareback' condomless porn...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • What you picked as 2009's greatest entertainment
    So what did our readers pick as the best new movie, theatre, concert, song, album and TV show in 2009? Pass the envelopes please! Hundreds of responses came back in our annual end-of-year survey - and now our culture vulture Andrew Grear takes you through the results...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 22 Dec 2008

  • Drag Mary at Amsterdam Xmas show
    Amsterdam's Christmas celebration for its gay community had courted controversy with its drag queen 'Mary'...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Jade Neale
    Mr Club Ivy 2008: Jade Neale 19-year-old Jade Neale is now the face of Club Ivy, after winning a sexy pageant in front of a capacity crowd at the club on 13 December...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vinegar Hill ready for 1,000 LGBT campers
    2008's Queen of Vinegar Hill Jenni James says she's expecting over 1,000 gay and lesbian family and friends to join her at Vinegar Hill Summer Camp in the lead-up to New Years Eve...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 22 Dec 2006


  • ‘“Contrary to popular belief I don't hate anyone who's gay” – God' say billboards and posters dotted around Auckland recently...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Diana Rands of CADS
    Diana Rands Diana is the LGBT communities-focused member of the Community Alcohol and other Drug Service...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 22 Dec 2004

  • "The Jewish (aka Gay) steamroller will not be stopped"
    The NZ Herald columnist (a senior staffer who also edits its Perspective/Letters To The Editor pages) has long had a bee in his bonnet about homosexuality...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Calls to fire tranny granny rejected
    Attorney-General Margaret Wilson has rejected calls for “tranny granny” Jacquie Grant to be fired from her recently-appointed position at the Human Rights Tribunal...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Civil Union Bill passes 2nd reading
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    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Homosexual panic in Kaikohe?
    The 'homosexual panic' defence appears to have reared its ugly head in a third New Zealand murder case this year, this time in Northland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Obituary: Jane Elisabeth Khull
    Jane Khull "Tell me how you plan to live your one wild and precious life?" - quote by Mary Oliver...
    Links: GayNZ.com

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