Bar owner committed for trial on sex and drug charges - 30th May 2003
Auckland bar and restaurant owner Philip David Sturm was committed for trial in the High Court at Auckland on drugs and sexual offending charges today following a week-long depositions hearing in Auckland District Court.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Caution call on sex disease idea - 29th May 2003
People might avoid tests for sexually transmitted infections if they were made notifiable diseases, a sexual health expert says.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Men tell court of snorting drugs and riding in Porsche - 28th May 2003
A man Philip David Sturm is accused of sexually assaulting has spoken of snorting a white powder with a rolled-up $100 bill during a visit to Sturm's Grey Lynn house.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Sex-case witness tells of receiving Ecstasy tablets from bar owner - 27th May 2003
A university student described yesterday how he and a friend received Ecstasy tablets at two premises including a room at the Metropolis Hotel building belonging to an Auckland bar and restaurant owner.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Unidentified Human Remains & the True Nature of Love at SiLo - 26th May 2003
Canadian author Brad Fraser would have been about 30 when he finished the four-year writing process that resulted in this 1989 romp (the movie came later, in 1993) about love, sex, loneliness and serial murder among his then-peer group.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Making a play for the TV generation - 21st May 2003
A gay man in his late 20s, a washed-up child star, seeks refuge in sex - and it takes sex with strangers, casual and dangerous, to whet his jaded appetite. His flatmate and ex-partner, of a similar age, is going through a mid-youth crisis, also a crisis of sexuality. Which way should she go? Then there is the too-good to-be-true bartender, a real ladies' man.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
From shorts to serious retrospectives - 21st May 2003
More than 70 movies - ranging from local comedy shorts to serious documentaries - make up the programme of the Out Takes 2003 gay and lesbian film festival starting in Auckland tomorrow.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
A queer business - 19th May 2003
The dismissal of Queer Nation presenter Jonathan Marshall and his director David Herkt after they tailed TVNZ frontliner Mike Hosking in search of paparazzo pictures from his private life has excited sympathy in some quarters - notably from the Act party's eternally available Rodney Hide, who is no doubt trying to bolster his liberal credentials after that unfortunate business on Waiheke Island.
Read the full story - Hard News
QNA - The original post can be seen in newsgroup nz.soc.queer and a direct link to the newspost in particular.
Call for inquiry into TVNZ over sackings - 19th May 2003
Opposition members of Parliament are demanding answers over the sacking of Queer Nation presenter Jonathan Marshall, calling for an inquiry into TVNZ's role in the incident.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
HIV cases increase more than 12pc in year - 19th May 2003
The number of people diagnosed with HIV last year increased more than 12 per cent. In 2002, there were 107 new HIV cases, up 12.6 per cent on the 95 reported in 2001, the HIV/Aids and bloodborne viruses coordinating committee says.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
MPs probe Hosking-related sackings - 18th May 2003
Queer Nation presenter Jonathan Marshall has won the support of opposition MPs following his sacking from the show, with demands for an inquiry into TVNZ's role in the drama.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Gay couple withdraws surrogacy bid - 18th May 2003
Two gay men who sought ethics approval to become surrogate parents have withdrawn their application, saying they are outraged at the prejudice against them and the way word of the proposal was made public.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Queer Nation staff out for pursuing Hosking - 17th May 2003
A reporter and director of Television New Zealand's weekly Queer Nation programme have been sacked after following and photographing Breakfast show host Mike Hosking with the aim of selling the pictures.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Newsgroup postings are in nz.soc.queer where David Herkt is a frequent poster.
Gay dads no longer a queer idea - 17th May 2003
Gay dads were in the news this Mothers Day. Two men are seeking approval to have a surrogate baby, to be fathered by one of them through artificial insemination. Complex stuff. It made me glad I never had to apply to an ethics committee for the right to enjoy the 11-year-old's poem, breakfast in bed and the loving phone calls from scattered children (no doubt pre-alerted by my partner that a loving phone call would be in order).
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Broomstick bullies sentenced - 17th May 2003
Five Napier teenagers who sexually violated a classmate with a broomstick in 2001 were re-sentenced to between two years and 2 1/2 years jail yesterday. A sixth youth walked free from the court.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
HIV cheat said to be in New Zealand - 17th May 2003
An HIV-positive Ghanaian man at the centre of a landmark court case in Australia is believed to be in New Zealand.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
EDITORIAL: Bigger issue is still there - 14th May 2003
Even in sexually liberal societies, where same-sex marriages scarcely raise an eyebrow, such an ambition would cause a stir. New Zealand's first application by a gay couple to bring up a surrogate child has brought forth heated debate.
Read the full story - Hawkes Bay Today
Presenter's job on the line after following Hosking - 11th May 2003
Queer Nation's teenage presenter Jonathan Marshall could lose his job after being caught following and photographing fellow TVNZ star Mike Hosking.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Twilight Zone labours over gay parents - 11th May 2003
As the saying goes, necessity is the gay surrogate parent of invention. Or, at least, that's how the saying goes. But, in the Twilight Zone, it makes up our news.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Gay community hails bid by men to have surrogate baby - 9th May 2003
The gay community has hailed an application by two homosexual men wanting to have a surrogate baby as "an important test case".
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Of mice and men and assisted reproduction - 9th May 2003
Gay men may be able to have their own babies if a new technique that works in mice can be made to work in humans.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Gay men in bid for surrogate's baby - 8th May 2003
New Zealand's first application by two gay men to have a surrogate's baby will force authorities to decide on the rights of the child to have a mother.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Gay men's surrogate baby bid under review - 7th May 2003
An application for two gay men to have a surrogate baby is being considered by a New Zealand ethics committee for the first time.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
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