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Sun 31 Dec 2023

  • 2023’s Top Ten: YOUR EX’s Most Read Stories Of The Year
    Links: Express

Thu 31 Dec 2020

  • NikkieTutorials on why it's hard for her to talk about her robbery and coming out experience
    YouTuber and makeup artist NikkeTutorials, whose full name is Nikkie de Jager, addressed the conversation around her coming out as transgender as well as getting robbed at gunpoint with her fiancé...
    Links: Stuff

Tue 31 Dec 2019

  • Julianne Hough's husband Brooks Laich wants to "Learn More" about his sexuality in 2020
    Juliane Hough's husband Brooks Laich took to Instagram to share his goals for the upcoming year and one of them is learning more about his sexuality...
    Links: Stuff
  • Margaret Court doubles down controversial attacks to lash transgender athletes
    Tennis great Margaret Court has served up another volley, this time to transgender athletes...
    Links: Stuff
  • Sir Elton John Named in Queen’s New Year’s Honours List
    Links: Express

Mon 31 Dec 2018

  • Big read: 2018 was the year of online hate. Meet the people whose lives it changed
    It cost a school-shooting victim the safety of home...
    Links: NZ Herald

Sun 31 Dec 2017

  • 'Make America Gay Again' sign greets Pence in Colorado
    ASPEN, Colo...
    Links: NZ Herald
  • LGBT advocates welcome end of 'gay panic' defence in second US state
    When 21-year-old US man Matthew Shepard was punched, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence and left to die in 1998, his killers' attorneys said the attackers were triggered by Shepard making sexual advances toward them...
    Links: Stuff

Sat 31 Dec 2016

  • Dame Fran acknowledges heroes of Law Reform
    Newly-knighted Dame Fran Wilde has paid tribute to the gay men and their supporters who "risked everything" and "put everything" into the landmark 1985/86 campaign to decriminalise sexual intimacy between gay and bisexual men...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Dame Fran to trans, youth: "Educate the public"
    Newly-knighted Dame Fran Wilde has urged those still fighting to progress sexuality and gender recognition and equality to keep working to educate the public...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Fran Wilde a Dame for service incl. Law Reform
    Fran Wilde, the MP who took the Homosexual Law Reform Bill into Parliament and successfully guided it through to a final vote decriminalising sexual intimacy between gay and bisexual men, has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Gay bars and clubs gear up for New Year's Eve
    Three of the country's main gay venues are gearing up to see the new year in tonight with parties, champagne and a grand opening lasting into the wee small hours...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Hospitals suing Obama over gender reassignment
    A group of Catholic health-care organisations in  the USA are set to sue outgoing president Barack Obama's administration, saying they are being forced to provide gender-reassignment services...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Kilmister: Wilde "greatly deserving" of knighthood
    A leading light in the massively contentious battle to decriminalise sexual intimacy between gay and bisexual men says the New Year's Honour announced today for gay equality Fran Wilde is "overdue" and "greatly deserved...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Looking back: George Michael
    For a comprehensive look back at the late George Michael's amazing career and sometimes controversial life click here...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Looking back: George Michael
    For a comprehensive look back at the late George Michael's amazing career and sometimes controversial life click here...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 31 Dec 2015

  • Book claims first Chinese PM was gay
    A new book claims China’s first Prime Minister was most likely gay...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Busy year for gay men's health research team
    Dr Peter Saxton It's been a busy year for a small team of university-based health researchers who focus almost entirely on health issues affecting gay and bisexual men in this country...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Glbti lives: Urzila Carlson and coming out
    New Zealand’s favourite lesbian comedian, Urzila Carlson, gives us the low-down on coming out and her plan to take over the world...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Queer women's club night coming to Chch
    Everyone’s favourite club night for women who love women is coming to Christchurch in 2016...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Website aims to help chemsex users in AKL
    A new website has launched calling for Aucklanders who engage in chemsex to help shape the city’s support and health specific services...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 31 Dec 2014

  • Film review: The Imitation Game
    Links: Express
  • Preserving our Pride
    Links: Express
  • 2014 in entertainment
    This look back on the year in entertainment is TV-heavy, because there have simply been so many shows with lgbti characters this year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GayNZ.com's 2014 New Year's Honours
    Each year GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Smith honoured for HIV/AIDs work
    Event director, performer, fundraiser and advocate Jonathan Smith is to be made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to people with HIV/AIDS...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Tue 31 Dec 2013

  • Bed ban GayNZ.com's biggest story of 2013
    Pilgrim Planet Lodge The case of a lesbian couple who were told they could not share a bed at Whangarei’s Pilgrim Planet Lodge received the most hits on GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Clear night forecast for gay campgrounds
    The Queen of Vinegar Hill with 'Gayby Bear' who is having his first Vinegar Hill experience with his dads...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GayNZ.com 2013 New Year's Honours
    It has been an utterly fantastic year, with heroes springing up from all walks of life...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Major gay figure Tony Katavich buried today
    Tony Katavich (l) and John Kiddie One of the gay communities' historically most influential figures, businessman Tony Katavich, has died, bringing to a close one of the most colourful and dominant partnerships gay New Zealand has ever known...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Our biggest stories of 2013
    1 Lesbian couple denied shared bed at lodge In May, we broke the story of a Northland couple who were denied a shared bed at Whangarei’s Pilgrim Planet Lodge by its bible thumping owners...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 31 Dec 2012

  • Camp numbers swell and party up at Vinegar Hill
    A Manawatu newspaper has got a little over-excited in reporting 8,000 campers have gathered at Vinegar Hill but the glbti numbers are swelling rapidly into the several hundreds...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GayNZ.com's 2012 New Year’s Dishonours
    Every year GayNZ...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Special glbti event gears up for New Year's Eve
    Chch's queen of glam, Miss Mole in party spirit 7...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • What's on for NYE?
    It's the biggest night of the year and we have you covered, with our guide to the gayest places to be to see 2013 in...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 31 Dec 2011

  • Europe and LGBT Rights
    In the United Kingdom, the Cameron administration has found itself on the wrong side of its European Union partners...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • July to December in NZ glbti news
    July Party like it's 1986: We marked 25 years since the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill: on 9 July 1986, Parliament voted to decriminalise sex between men and two days later the Bill was signed by the Governor General, allowing it to come into effect on 8 August...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Rainbow flag occupies downtown Auckland
    A rainbow flag has appeared amongst the placards and tents of the Occupy protest site in central Auckland...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Weatherman Tamati and Tim have tied the knot
    Tim and Tamati pictured before last year's Pink Flight to Sydney Mardi Greas TV weatherman Tamati Coffey and his partner Tim Smith were married in a Civil Union ceremony in Auckland on Thursday afternoon...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 31 Dec 2010

  • Advocating for improved lives
    Rainbow Wellington Campaigns, update December 2010 We have again written again to Ms Anne Tolley at Parliament, underlining our concern at the apparent lack of awareness of or action over homophobic bullying...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • No glbt presence in NZ New Year's Honours
    For the second year in a row no one from the national glbt communities appears to have been acknowledged in the New Year's Honours...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vinegar Hill glbt camp crowded and relaxed
    Queen Aaron New Zealand's premier glbt camping spot is packed to overflowing and preparing for a party night this evening to usher in the new year...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Thu 31 Dec 2009

  • Asian gay sex survey launches New Year's Day
    Asia's largest-ever internet-based gay men's sex survey will be launched in ten languages on New Year's Day...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • GayNZ.com's New Year's Honours list
    Every year many people make life better for glbt New Zealanders...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 31 Dec 2008

  • 'PlayStation 3' censors gay words online
    Sony's new PlayStation 3 gaming console – which allows users to met online to play games together – filters out the words 'gay' 'lesbian' and 'bisexual' from conversations and user profiles...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Facebook deletes Serbian anti-gay groups
    Popular social networking website Facebook...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Retreat provides "time-out" for HIV+ people
    The annual HIV+ Men's Retreat, set for Easter Weekend at Vaughan Park in Auckland's Long Bay, will be a chance to both relax and learn in the company of other HIV+ men from all over New Zealand, say the Body Positive crew...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Review: John Barrowman's Anything Goes
    Review: John Barrowman: Anything Goes: London: Michael Mahler: 2008 To any gay man with a pulse and other working pieces of anatomy, John Barrowman is an icon...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • What you picked as the Best of 2008
    We asked our readers to choose their favourite things of the past year, and the results are in! The votes are counted and now it's time to "pass the envelopes please...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Mon 31 Dec 2007

  • New Year honour for Marilyn Waring
    12...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Pope attacks equality for GandL partnerships
    Tens of thousands of Catholic faithful have gathered in Madrid and Vatican City for rallies promoting 'traditional' families...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The Dog, She Is Stoppered
    David Herkt presents a story of love for money by Liam Starkey, the first in a series of summer short stories...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Three more gandl folk in New Year Honours
    6...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sun 31 Dec 2006

  • AIDS Foundation research director awarded QSM
    NZ AIDS Foundation Press release 31 December 2005 NZAF welcomes QSM for its Research Director A Queens Service Medal in the New Year Honours List is a fitting recognition of a man whose dedication and work commitment has directly contributed to New Zealand having one of the lowest rates of HIV in its at-risk populations of any country in the world, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation said today...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Sat 31 Dec 2005

  • Awards: 2005's Ten Tawdry Transgressors!
    Despite the expansion of this year's best and worst lists from seven to ten, it was heartening to find that when assembling this year's shitters that our cup did not runneth over, although it has certainly been a big year...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Night of fun at Vinegar Hill
    5:30PM: Hunterville's gay camp of the summer Vinegar Hill will have a new Queen crowned at 11:20 tonight, but until then it's still the reign of Ms Toni Farrow...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Northland camp swelling for glbt party
    Upwards of 500 glbt people and their friends are expected to see out the old year and welcome the new tonight at a camping ground just south of Whangarei...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Vinegar Hill's camp camp gears up
    Around 300 glbt people are expected to have filed in by midnight for New Year's celebrations at the 29th annual Vinegar Hill gay camp near Hunterville...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Fri 31 Dec 2004

  • 2004's Villains: The Seven Deadly Sinners
    SEVEN DEADLY SINNERS We must remember in this life that for every sweet marshmallow, there is a brussel sprout waiting in the wings...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Flesh temporarily relocates
    Auckland gay club Flesh, devastated by a fire earlier in the week, is keeping to its promise of being open for New Year's Eve – albeit in a new location...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Marie Antoinette: Was She or Wasn't She?
    Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Was Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) a lesbian? Some historians say yes, some biographers are sceptical...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • Obituary: Elegy for the Essayist - Susan Sontag
    Susan Sontag (1933-2004) I will miss Susan Sontag, Her work spanned over forty years, and there's currently some question about whether she was a lesbian, according to The Advocate...
    Links: GayNZ.com
  • The sun always shines on Vinegar Hill
    The rest of the country may be suffering under a cloud of wintry darkness, but down at popular gay campsite Vinegar Hill the boys of summer are out to play...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 31 Dec 2003

  • Topp Twins get New Years Honours
    Entertainers Jools and Lynda Topp have made the New Years Honours list, becoming members of the New Zealand Order Of Merit...
    Links: GayNZ.com

Wed 31 Dec 1986

  • Television current affairs: the year in review (New Zealand)
    Lindsay Perigo presents a review of the major news stories - including homosexual law reform and Eve van Grafhorst. News, ref F92032.
    Links: Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Tue 31 Dec 1985

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