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Sat 30 Dec 2023

  • Aych McArdle is made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (New Zealand)
    The New Year's honour is awarded to McArdle for services to the rainbow community
    Links: Honours List
  • Maryan Street is made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (New Zealand)
    Street receives the New Year's honour for services as a Member of Parliament and to human and democratic rights.
    Links: Honours List
  • Shaneel Lal: ‘Soul-crushing’ plight of Gaza’s queer people
    OPINION: Queer Palestinians are begging the world to see their plight for freedom...
    Links: NZ Herald

Fri 30 Dec 2022

  • Blood, bones and band aids: A Lady Butcher answers the meaty questions
    How long can you keep raw steak? Is wagyu worth it? We asked an expert...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Blood, bones and band aids: A Lady Butcher answers the meaty questions
    How long can you keep raw steak? Is wagyu worth it? We asked an expert...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • New Year Honours: Dr Ashley Bloomfield, who led Covid-19 response, knighted to become Sir
    “I look back at that with a sense of pride, in what we achieved as a country...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Shaneel Lal: I fear we are entering a decade of war on queer lives
    The activist looks back on a year of attacks on queer people in New Zealand...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • World Boxing Council To Create Transgender Division
    Links: Express

Wed 30 Dec 2020

  • Exclusive Source: “RuPaul’s Drag Race Australia To Film in New Zealand”
    Links: Express

Mon 30 Dec 2019

  • Tennis: Australian tennis great Margaret Court makes controversial comments about transgender children
    Tennis legend Margaret Court has doubled down on her controversial views regarding sexuality during a sermon at her Perth church...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • Louisa Wall Speaks at Cook Islands Pride Event
    Links: Express

Fri 30 Dec 2016

  • The Struggles of Dating Online as a Trans Man
    Links: Express
  • Update: Body Positive, after the battle
    Last year in the months before Christmas a public row between the board of Body Positive and a group of its members was messy, at times nasty and looking like it could seriously destabilise the organisation...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 30 Dec 2015

  • A look back on the year that was
    It’s that time of the year when we look back on the news stories that defined us as a community, the stories that shook the boat and the stories that continue to shape us...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • China's domestic violence law ignores gay couples
    China has passed it’s first ever domestic violence law but the protections do not extend to same-sex couples...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • HK man suing gov. for not recognising NZ marriage
    A gay Hong Kong civil worker is suing the government for failing to recognise his New Zealand marriage ceremony...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The Price of Purity?
    Vermont Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders is Hillary Clinton's major rival for the Democratic presidential nomination...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 30 Dec 2014

  • Foodie Bites – Market Stall of the month
    Links: Express
  • Protected: So Urge Goes Under Thanks to Grindr?
    Links: Express
  • Quiet New Years? Get Reading!
    Links: Express
  • Craig Young's top 10 politics and religion stories of 2014
    As 2014 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the highs and lows that characterised New Zealand and overseas LGBT news this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quotes of 2014: powerful, straight-up and hilarious
    There have been some incredible moments in 2014, and here we celebrate some of the most powerful, funny and plain honest quotes which grabbed our attention this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Robbie Manson - Pt1: The path to success
    Robbie Manson grew up on the rural outskirts of Blenheim, “definitely not a city kid...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 30 Dec 2013

  • Casual NYE gathering for Christchurch
    Bears Christchurch and Gay Canterbury have teamed up to create a relaxed New Year’s Eve party at craft beer lounge The Volstead...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Quotes of 2013: The Ugly
    Another quote which made our skin crawl: "One of our daughters has had a series of terrible experiences with men ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rotorua's Bay Pride will be back in 2014
    Organisers of the Rotorua-based Bay Pride festival say the event will return in 2014...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 30 Dec 2012

  • Heroes and Villains of 2012: Politicians edition
    With marriage equality coming to the fore in 2012, we have seen the very best, the very worst - and some utter ‘what the?’ - moments from our elected and unelected representatives...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Heroes and Villains of 2012: Politicians edition
    With marriage equality coming to the fore in 2012, we have seen the very best, the very worst - and some utter ‘what the?’ - moments from our elected and unelected representatives...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Key judged both a hero and a villain of 2012
    The two shades of John Key Prime Minister John Key has been named both a hero and a villain in GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 30 Dec 2011

  • Ralph Knowles - early years of HIV AIDS in Christchurch (Christchurch)
    Ralph Knowles talks about the early years of HIV/AIDS in Christchurch.
    Features: Ralph Knowles
    Links: PrideNZ.com
  • Goin' bush: We came, we saw, we ran...
    A wet welcome Yes so the forecasters were spot on and the weather at Vinegar Hill is only for the campers of a much tougher breed than I (read: much butcher breed)...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 30 Dec 2010

  • MMP and our LGBT rights
    At the next general election, New Zealand will have its third poll on whether or not we want to retain our current MMP electoral system...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 30 Dec 2009

  • Argentina hosts first Latin America gay marriage
    Latin America has seen its first legal same-sex marriage after the governor of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province permitted two men to wed...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Designer Jackboots?
    In New Zealand, organised neofascism is politically impotent...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Discrimination against lesbians sees warden 'retire'
    The warden at a Virginia, USA, women's prison is to retire after allegations that she allowed discrimination against gay inmates...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Names sought for lesbian albatrosses' chick
    Tourism Dunedin is asking for names suitable for a chick being hatched by a pair of lesbian royal albatrosses nesting on Otago Peninsula...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Revel Horwood drags up as Panto Queen
    Acid-tongued Dancing with the Stars judge Craig Revel Horwood is donning wig, gown and heels to play an evil pantomime queen...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: 'Red Studio - 45 Prints' by John Z. Robinson
    John Z...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 30 Dec 2008

  • Family rejection leads to health risks
    New research from the United States confirms that gay, lesbian or bisexual young people who are rejected from their families after coming out are more likely to face health issues in early adulthood...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 30 Dec 2007

  • Ten of the Worst - 2007 edition
    In an end of year ritual as regular as the Queen's Christmas message and trifle overload, GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 30 Dec 2006

  • Online Dating: Pimpin' your profile
    When your thoughts turn to finding love… or just sex, here's some tips on how to make your dating profile more ‘clickable'! Your picture here Dating profiles with pictures on them are so much more likely to get results...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Online Dating: Pimpin' your profile
    When your thoughts turn to finding love… or just sex, here's some tips on how to make your dating profile more ‘clickable'! Your picture here Dating profiles with pictures on them are so much more likely to get results...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 30 Dec 2005

  • A marriage of talents: Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
    Born in 1913, Benjamin Britten showed prodigious musical skill from an early age...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Movies: Hitchcock
    Who but Alfred Hitchcock could make films about psychotic homosexual murderers so delightfully compelling, and yet inoffensive to a gay audience? In “Rope” (1948), Hitch pushed boundaries by having not one but two psychotic homosexual murderers...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 30 Dec 2004

  • Television news report: a former male sex worker who is HIV+ has been placed in a home in Canterbury (New Zealand)
    TV3 news, ref F84594.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
  • Retro drag fun in Nelson for New Years
    Caluzzi Cabaret drag stars Miss Ribena and Miss Kola are heading to Nelson to host a New Year's Eve retro dance party blowout...
    Links: GayNZ.com

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