Editorial - Happy New Year and all that!

Finally party hard tonight and take care out there.

Needle exchange scheme receives cash boost.

Maree Jensen, a spokeswoman, was reported in the NZ Herald as saying their was a real demand for services in areas such as Northland. She went on to say that "the scheme is going to have someone to encourage new pharmacy outlets and coordinate it".

Events - Reviews

Events - Upcoming

Wellington events for lesbians (from srg3dbn@dbv.grace.cri.nz)

LILAC - The Wellington lesbian library is open:

• Saturdays 12 noon - 3 pm
• Wednesday 6 - 8pm

Photos from the Lesbian Ball

The photos from the Wellington Ball are available for viewing at The Curator, Majoribanks St. until the end of January. Prints cost $1 each, payable when ordering.

DOODS Dance

Lesbian Overland and Cafe Club Programme, Oct. - Dec.:

meet outside the Wellington Railway Station at 10 am stout walking shoes or boots; bring lunch, drink and raingear

• 10 Dec. Post Ball perambulation in the Botanic Gardens starts 11 am; 1 hr walk, 3 hr cafe ...
• 13-14 Jan. Otaki overnighter/Ohau Gorge walk - contact info from Lesbian Line
• 28 Jan. Whitirea Peninsula and beach swim

Lesbian Mountain Bike Riders

• trips are held on the 3rd Sunday of each month - route decided on the day
• meet outside the Wellington Railway Station at 10.30 am
• bring lunch, drink, warm clothes and raingear
• Lesbian Line has contact info

Auckland Community Church - 31 December 1995 and 7 January 1996 8pm St Matthews in the City

Mapplethorpe Exhibition - Wellington till February 18 1996 Wellington City Art Gallery.

Takaka Summer Camp - 27 December 1995 to 9 January 1996

Taranaki ESPresso Cafe and Bar - 4 January 1996.

More details on the above events can be found on the web at http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/1996.calendar.of.events.html.

What is happening on the Internet

The HERO details are continuing to be put up at the URL: http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/HERO/ and should be completed by the end of next week.

Of interest is a new site Queer Vision Worldwide at the URL: http://www.queervision.com.au/ This site is in the initial development stages but is aiming to provide an alternative outlet for high quality gay and lesbian video-on-demand programming. An ex Kiwi now based in Sydney is involved with this project.

Copyright, Subscription and Contribution information

Overseas media who utilise any or all of the above material please credit QNA as your source. Thank you.

QNA is a weekly news service of events, activities and other items of interest that are happening in the queer community in New Zealand. The news is distributed via the QNA mailing list (email proffitt@iprolink.co.nz to be included on this list), posted to soc.motss and nz.soc.queer.The news articles only are distributed via the GLBNews and Queerplanet mailing lists.The news will also archived at Akiko International web site (http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/QNA/), the most current issue will be also found at the QRD (http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/world/pacific/nz/qna.html) and on Social Tendancies BBS (64-7-846-2603).

Contributions to QNA can be sent via email to proffitt@iprolink.co.nz, fax 64-9-376-1404 or 64-21-787-264 or toll free fax 0800-771-404 or snail mail.