Capital frenzy as stargazers comb town - 29th November 2003
Hobbit-watchers staked out Wellington venues yesterday, hoping for a glimpse of Lord of the Rings stars.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Diana Wichtel: Families come in many forms - 29th November 2003
What is a family? My mother grew up in one that included a stepfather and seven brothers and sisters. They aren't all full siblings, not that it ever occurs to her to make that distinction. In his early teens, my partner's mother died and the family was raised by his dad.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Care of Children Bill is "legislative creep" - 26th November 2003
The government is using the need to help children who are the victims of family breakdown as a smokescreen for social engineering.
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Writings from the underbelly - 26th November 2003
From a book-crammed Auckland bach, Frank Sargeson produced some of New Zealand's finest and most provocative literature. Bruce Harding looks at a controversial life that broke new ground.
Read the full story - The Press
Sex, drugs and strife that began at 46 - 24th November 2003
Philip Sturm's life as a leading figure at the high end of Auckland's hospitality industry was all about work - ensuring his restaurants and bar maintained their standards and attractiveness in the city's fickle market.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Sturm yet to decide whether to appeal - 23rd November 2003
Auckland restaurant owner Philip Sturm was yesterday found guilty of sexually violating four young men.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Restaurateur guilty of sex attacks - 22nd November 2003
A man behind several of Auckland's top bars and restaurants has been found guilty of sex attacks on four young men.
Read the full story - One News
Restaurateur found guilty - 22nd November 2003
Guilty verdicts have been returned in the trial of an Auckland restaurateur.
Forty-eight-year-old Philip Sturm has been found guilty on ten charges relating to sex acts with four young men.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Controversial sex event returns - 22nd November 2003
The provocatively named Sex in the Park is back.
Dubbed sleazy and immoral when it was launched last year, the youth event to highlight World Aids Day will be held again in Christchurch next Sunday in Bromley Park.
Read the full story - The Press
Restaurateur acquitted on charges of stupefying young men - 20th November 2003
Auckland restaurateur Philip David Sturm has been acquitted on six charges of stupefying young men.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Aids fashion event called off - 18th November 2003
An Auckland fashion extravaganza which aimed to raise money for Aids awareness has fallen over after failing to get the support of the Aids Foundation.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Young men not my type: Sturm - 17th November 2003
A prominent Auckland restaurateur says he did not sexually desire young men he supplied with drugs and had sex with afterwards.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Reality check - 15th November 2003
Former drag queen Georgina Beyer - now Labour MP for Wairarapa - is hitting the boards again tonight for a reunion of the "Bloomers" drag act, made famous by Alfie's nightclub during the 1980s.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Diana Wichtel: Warped view of strong woman - 15th November 2003
The Labour Government has some reasons to be cheerful. They must be laughing their heads off about those leaked Act documents. I know I am.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Accused denies use of force in sex act - 14th November 2003
Businessman Philip David Sturm said he never used physical force in a sexual encounter with a former staff member, and other encounters with the young man were consensual.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Courage Day 15th November – what’s it all about? - 12th November 2003
It’s about supporting our right to freedom of speech and opposing the persecution of writers with dissenting views. On November 15th each year, all around the world, PEN Centres remember those imprisoned for writing about things someone didn’t approve of.
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Rifts open with gay bishop's challenge - 10th November 2003
Yesterday, as Anglicans part-filled pews throughout the land, vicars and worshippers found themselves confronting a new reality. Last week, the church's American arm, the Episcopalians, consecrated its first openly gay bishop. The move deeply upset Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; our top Anglican, John Paterson, seems no happier.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Drawing a line - 10th November 2003
Paintings of gay soldiers fancying each other is a new test of Palmerston North's conservatism, reports Ewan Sargent.
Read the full story - Manawatu Evening Standard
TV: Victor Kahu heads the list of possible murderers - 10th November 2003
Reality Check wonders if a complaint about the complainant might not be the next stage after a queer decision that the Fagg's coffee advertisement is straight up.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Going straight - 9th November 2003
A reputable American study has found that gays can change their sexuality. LAUREN QUAINTANCE meets Kiwi sexual converts.
Read the full story - Sunday Star Times
Major rift over visit by bishop - 8th November 2003
A rift has developed in Christchurch's Anglican community, with a third of the church's city vicars rebelling against the visit of radical American Bishop John Spong.
Read the full story - The Press
Reality check - 8th November 2003
Reality Check wonders if a complaint about the complainant might not be the next stage after a queer decision that the Fagg's coffee advertisement is straight up.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Convicted killer gutless, says victim's daughter - 7th November 2003
The daughter of slain Upper Hutt eccentric Johnny Walker says her father's murderer was gutless to have killed the way he did.
Read the full story - The Dominion Post
Complainant on guilt trip, says Sturm - 7th November 2003
The Auckland bar and restaurant owner facing gay-sex and drugs charges suggested to police that a man making allegations of drugging and sexual violation might have "tripped out" after they had a sexual encounter.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Billboard to go - 5th November 2003
A billboard in Masterton linking Wairarapa MP Georgina Beyer with drinking Speight’s beer is coming down after the joke message it contained went flat.
Read the full story - Wairarapa Times-Age
Tapu Misa: For religious tolerance, avoid the subject like the plague - 5th November 2003
There is nothing like religious talk to send people into an apoplectic lather, as the Anglican Church is finding out. One openly gay bishop and all hell breaks loose.
Read the full story - NZ Herald
Fagg's ads 'straight up' says Advertising Standards Authority - 5th November 2003
An advertising campaign for Fagg's, "the great straight coffee", has been cleared of being homophobic by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board.
Read the full story - Stuff Website
Church leaders look to map out the future - 4th November 2003
Two members of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, are part of Anglican Church commision to map a way forward for the various parts of the Anglican Church to continue in communion following the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson in the USA.
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Press Release: Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education - 4th November 2003
There is no foundation to the claim that homosexuality has no place in Maori society,” says Dr Leonie Pihama, Director of the International Research Centre on Indigenous Education.
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Gay ordination upsets most Anglicans, bishop says - 4th November 2003
Most Anglicans throughout the world will be upset that a gay priest has been ordained as a bishop in America, Nelson-Marlborough's Anglican Bishop Derek Eaton says.
Read the full story - The Marlborough Express
NZ joins gay bishop protests - 3rd November 2003
New Zealand and Australian Anglican church leaders have joined their international counterparts in rejecting the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the US Episcopal Church.
Read the full story - One News
Kiwi bishop regrets consecration of gay bishop in US - 3rd November 2003
The Anglican Bishop of Wellington has written to parishioners saying he regrets the ordination of a gay priest as bishop in the United States today.
Read the full story - Stuff Website
NZ Anglicans not passing judgement - 2nd November 2003
The Anglican Church in New Zealand says acceptance and even celebration of diversity has been a strong point of the church in this country.
Read the full story - News Talk ZB
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