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10 plead on cold Bluff night: don't get HIV - 22-May-2006

A gentle waiata filled the air at the Bluff Hill lookout last night as 10 hardy souls braved a cold southerly wind to remember those with and those lost to HIV and Aids. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Southland Times Related Site - NZAF

Clark: AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2006 - 21-May-2006

Today, in services around the country, we remember those who have died from AIDS since the first death in New Zealand in 1985. Read the full story/Visit the site - New Zealand Government

Tauranga Candlelight Memorial Service - 21-May-2006

Tena koutou katoa My warmest welcome to everyone gathered here and throughout New Zealand for the Candlelight Memorial Services. Tonight is a special night. It is a time for us to remember those New Zealanders who have lost their lives to AIDS since the first death in 1985. Read the full story/Visit the site - Governor-General Related Site - NZAF

Rainbow Labour Marks IDAHO - 16-May-2006

Rainbow Labour is Observing IDAHO in New Zealand in 2006 Rainbow Labour is the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) sector of the New Zealand Labour Party. We are joining with other local and international groups to mark the second International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on Wednesday May 17 2006. Specifically, we are marking IDAHO by: Read the full story/Visit the site - Rainbow Labour

AIDS Candlelight Memorial Sunday 21 May - 16-May-2006

Lighting a path to a brighter future – AIDS Candlelight Memorial Sunday 21 May SH4U, the Western Bay Sexual Health Coalition, is 100% behind the Bay Area AIDS Support Service (BAASS) and New Zealand Aids Foundation in highlighting the importance of remembering those who have died from AIDS. Read the full story/Visit the site

International Day Against Homophobia, May 17 - 15-May-2006

In 2005 the first International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) was held informally in a number of countries across the world. This Wednesday, May 17th is due to be the second such day. Read the full story/Visit the site - GAP Related Site - National Day Against Homopobia

Books: Edmund the Magnificent - 14-May-2006

Headed for Auckland next week, American author Edmund White talks to IAIN SHARP about his startling new autobiography, works in progress and the gay life. With characteristically astute self-awareness, Edmund White recently told an American reporter: "I am very exhibitionist in my writing, but I'm actually quite shy about my life in person." Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times Related Site - NZ Writers Festival

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial - 11-May-2006

With more people than ever living with HIV in New Zealand, the annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial on 21 May will have special significance the New Zealand AIDS Foundation says. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Christchurch Pride Week 2006 - 23-Apr-2006

Hundreds of lesbians, gay men, bisexual men and women, takatāpui, fa’afafine, and transgender are expected in Christchurch between 13 and 21 May for the second annual Christchurch Pride Week festival. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Camp camp gears up for fun - 30-Dec-2005

Most people will be having a gay old time as they party their way into 2006, but none as much as the visitors to Vinegar Hill. Read the full story/Visit the site - Manwatu Standard Related Site - Vinegar Hill

Big Gay Out for a week in Qtown Spring camp for 350 men - 2-Sep-2005

Coming out on the town next week are 350 men who will give a whole new meaning to Queenstown camp-ground. Gay Ski Week is on again for the third year in the resort and organiser Mike Sandford said it was his passion coming true for the third time. Even though Mr Sandford now lives in Sydney, he commutes to Queenstown frequently and is keen for all the glitz and camp madness to begin. Read the full story/Visit the site - Southland Times

Clear eye for the queer guy - 15-Jun-2005

When Jonathon Hendry first saw Boys In the Band, he was a young gay activist watching a much debated film on video in his student flat in Wellington. The original stage-play had been written in 1968, a year before gay liberation erupted into mainstream American consciousness with a series of skirmishes between homosexuals and police in New York's Greenwich Village, which would become known as the Stonewall Riots. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald Related Site - Silo Theatre

Controversial "Queer Classic" Returns to the Stage - 14-Jun-2005

Nearly forty years after the "Stonewall Riots", which many say mark the beginning of the modern gay movement, Auckland's Silo theatre brings Boys in the Band back to life, 15 June - 2 July. This ground breaking play became a lightning rod for public discussion after its first performance off-Broadway in 1968. Boys in the Band was the first play to portray gay men and deal realistically with homosexuality before a mainstream audience. Read the full story/Visit the site - Silo Theatre

'Perverted little liar' jibe still hurts - 6-Jun-2005

Lesbian former MP Marilyn Waring choked back tears at the women's convention in Wellington yesterday as she talked about what Sir Robert Muldoon said to her on the night he called the fateful snap election in 1984. "You perverted little liar - what do you think you are up to now?" the late Prime Minister snarled. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Women look back, move forward - 6-Jun-2005

There are rotund earth mother sculptures at the door, but it is all business inside the Women's Convention at Wellington Town Hall. The theme of the conference, Looking Back, Moving Forward, is particularly fitting for four women who attended the last United Women's Convention held in Wellington 30 years ago. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Dominion Post

That 70s show - 5-Jun-2005

There were lesbian separatists. There were middle-class housewives. There was leg hair and a hell of a lot of dungarees. As the Women's Convention returns to the capital, Rosemary McLeod recalls the original 1975 feminist jamboree that launched a social revolution. Feminists are out in force this weekend in Wellington, and they'll be crowing. The Janus Women's Convention celebrates 30 years since the United Women's Convention in the capital in 1975, a Great Leap Forward into success. Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

Queer Asian Movies at the Asia Film Festival Aotearoa - 19-May-2005

Queer Asian Movies are taking the world by storm. Recently queer Asian movies have gone mainstream and have been winning film festival awards all around the world. The Asia Film Festival Aotearoa 2005 has brought to Auckland, a most incredible lineup of queer cinema to hit New Zealand screens from 20 May to 1st June at the Academy Cinema. The line up caters for gay woman, transgendered, transsexual, twinks and hunks and positively blows away misconceptions and stereotypes about gay Asians. Read the full story/Visit the site - Asia New Zealand Film Foundation Trust Related Site - Queer Asian Movies at Asia Film Festival Aotearoa 2005

Kamp Camp a Success - 28-Apr-2005

“My Mother made me do it!” That was the grateful reaction from one of 30 young people who attended the Takatāpui Rangatahui Hui / Queer Youth Camp in Northland during ANZAC weekend. Organised by the Northland Queer Takatāpui Support Group with assistance from the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, Northland Health and the New Zealand Police (Northland), the camp, according to evaluations from the participants, more than succeeded in its goal of promoting health, hauora/wellbeing, self understanding and self esteem among young gay, lesbian, bisexual, takatāpui and transgender (glbt) people. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Christchurch Pride Week 2005 - 25-Apr-2005

Christchurch’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, takatāpui, transgendered and inter-sexed (glbti) communities will be celebrating their gains in human rights equality, their loves, lives, and sheer diversity in what is thought to be the city’s first ever large-scale Gay Pride Week. Running from 6 to 15 May, Pride Week activities range from drag shows, movie nights and a quiz to a car rally, dance party and interactive theatre. These will run alongside more serious issues such as a relationships forum, workshops on dealing with homophobia and the safety of non-heterosexual youth in schools. Read the full story/Visit the site - Christchurch Pride Week

Tapu Misa: Storms in a kava bowl - and the fallout wasn't pretty - 16-Mar-2005

Oh dear. The feathers have been flying since the weekend's cultural festivities, and I don't mean those ubiquitous duck feathers that covered the ground at Western Springs during Pasifika. I'm talking about the storm in a kava bowl over the presentation of an award at the inaugural Pacific Island Music Awards, which was staged as part of the opening ceremony for this year's premier Pacific festival. The trouble began when the committee organising this supposed celebration of Pacific music decided to get a Samoan transvestite and designer, Lindah E, to present the award for best male artist. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

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