Hero parade in further doubt after Society wound up - 22nd August 2002
The showpiece of Auckland's gay and lesbian community in February all but died last night when the Hero Incorporated Society was wound up.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Tauranga murder hunt ends in Auckland arrest - 19th August 2002
Police have charged a man with murder three weeks after the fatal stabbing of John Rogers at a public domain toilet block in central Tauranga.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Wellington reigns on Hero Parade - 16th August 2002
The party's over for Auckland's gay community. Members of Hero, the incorporated society that runs the annual gay pride festival and Ponsonby Rd parade, voted unanimously to wind up the organisation because of funding problems.
Read the full story - Auckland City Harbour News
Feather in cap for Carter - 13th August 2002
Chris Carter has worked as a chicken farmer, a teacher and a politician. But the Labour MP will go down in history for his newest job, which makes him the country's first openly gay Cabinet minister.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Carter in 'marriage-like situation' for 29 years - 13th August 2002
"We never hold hands." New Zealand's first openly gay cabinet minister Chris Carter and his partner Peter Kaiser are happy to be photographed with Mr Kaiser adjusting Mr Carter's tie.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Hero falls to money squabbles - 12th August 2002
Auckland's colourful gay Hero parade and festival are unlikely to be staged again because of a cash crisis and squabbles in the city's gay community.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Hero Website
Toxic Parliament will test PM - 12th August 2002
United Future leader Peter Dunne objects to The Dominion Post informing its readers of his candidates' views on Aids sufferers and sex education.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Newspaper 'crossed the line' - 12th August 2002
Departing cop 'crossed the line' and "Senior policeman at the centre of sex and drugs investigation resigns before facing internal charges" the Sunday Star Times headline read.
Read the full story - QNA
Departing cop 'crossed the line' - 11th August 2002
Senior policeman at the centre of sex and drugs investigation resigns before facing internal charges.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Aids stand under fire - 9th August 2002
CHRISTIAN Heritage Party deputy leader Merepeka Raukawa-Tait has slammed United Future MP Paul Adams’s comments about Aids sufferers and people with other “contagious diseases”.
Read the full story - Wairarapa Times Age
Tauranga not anti-gay say politicians - 9th August 2002
Tauranga MPs have rejected claims by the gay newspaper Express that Tauranga is "homophobic".
Read the full story - Stuff News
Gay cop resigns over e-mail sting - 9th August 2002
Gay Auckland police senior sergeant Mark Richards has quit the force, despite being cleared of any criminal wrongdoing after a Sunday newspaper "sting" where he discussed drug use with a reporter by e-mail.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
'Trojan horse' takeover - 8th August 2002
The conservative Christian wing of United Future has taken over the party after the moderate United party went quietly into recess, say senior officials who have left in dismay.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Aids call haunts new United Future MP - 8th August 2002
United Future leader Peter Dunne says reviving a suggestion made nine years ago by one of his party's new MPs that Aids sufferers should be quarantined is "trawling the gutter".
Read the full story - NZ Herald
'Homophobia' no hindrance says inquiry head - 7th August 2002
The time and place of Tauranga homosexual John Rogers' murder are more of a problem to investigators than homophobia, says inquiry head Detective Senior Sergeant Karl Wright-St Clair.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
New Zealand shows find a niche abroad - 3rd August 2002
Niche Kiwi television is gaining international attention with the export of two shows from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Queer Nation Website
Chef sacked from navy - 3rd August 2002
A rating who kissed and indecently assaulted male shipmates on the frigate Canterbury has been sacked from the navy and jailed for 90 days.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Tauranga murder investigators follow leads from TV show - 2nd August 2002
Tauranga police say they are following several "interesting" leads into slaying of local man John Rogers at the weekend.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Leads on knife used in Tauranga stabbing - 2nd August 2002
Tauranga detectives say they are following up interesting information about the large carving knife used to stab murder victim John Rogers early last Sunday.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Fiji police coerced witness, murder trial told - 1st August 2002
A houseboy yesterday described finding the bodies of Fiji Red Cross chief John Scott and his New Zealand partner Gregory Scrivener butchered in their Suva home.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Ideal family vision has had its day - 1st August 2002
The need for policies that strengthen the family unit was a feature of the election campaign.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Editorial: New party welcome in politics - 1st August 2002
It is seldom a good idea to suppress any form of information.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
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