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At the recent GABA (Gay Auckland Business Association) function four of the candidates for Auckland Central electorate were invited to speak.

Rodney Hide, the ACT party candidate, was challenged over Owen Jennings press release in early February where he referred to those who are infected with HIV as practising in a high risk lifestyle. Rodney Hide tried to defend it by saying he practised a high risk lifestyle by overeating. The questioner further questioned the fact that ACT had a policy of leaving health to the health insurance yet people with HIV couldn’t get insurance. Mr Hide responded with an assurance that in this case the state would provide support.

Shane Frith, the National party candidate, stated that issues such as gay marriage were conscious decisions in the National Party and not matters of party policy. A member of the audience responded with the fact that he didn’t believe it was acceptable that in 1996 a serious political party didn’t have a policy on this and other issues of equality.

Both Judith Tizard, the Labour candidate and MP for Panmure, and Sandra Lee, the Alliance candidate and MP for Auckland Central, were will received.

March quarter HIV statistics

The NZ AIDS Epidemology Group released the latest AIDS and HIV statistics for the period ending 31 March 1996 last week.

Nineteen people were notified as having AIDS in the first quarter of 1996. Eighteen were male, and one female. The total number notified since monitoring began (to 31 March 196) was 542. The cumulative incident rate to that time was 15.8 per 100,000 total population.

The current figures show that a further 31 people were found infected with HIV bringing the total number of reported infections for the last 12 months to 97. Of those recently infected 22 were male and 8 female, and the sex of the remaining person was not stated. The total number of people infected with HIV since monitoring began is 1108.

Gay TV and Radio

Express Report every Monday 10.00pm on ATV, Capital City, Coast to Coast, Southern and CTV. and repeated on TV One, Saturday 12.15am

Shortland St, TV2, Monday to Friday 7pm.

Radio

Regular gay and lesbian shows

Auckland - G & T Show, 810AM Access Radio, Thursday 7 to 8am
Auckland - This Way Out, 810AM Access Radio, Saturday 11:40am
Auckland - In The Pink, 95BFM Student Radio, Sunday 8 to 9pm
Auckland - Girls Own Show, 95BFM Student Radio, Sunday 7 to 8pm
Hamilton - Different Strokes, Contact 89FM, Sunday 6 to 8pm
Wellington - Gay BC, 783AM Access Radio, Gay BC, Saturdays 11:15 - 12:15
Wellington - Reading Lesbian Writers, 783AM Access Radio,Saturdays, 1.00 - 1.15
Wellington - Lesbian Radio Programme, 783AM Access Radio,Sundays, 10 - 11 am
Wellington - Boy Trouble, 89FM Student Radio, Sunday 6-7pm
Top of the South - Dyke FM, 99.4FM Fresh FM, Sunday 10am
Top of the South - Gaytime FM, 99.4FM Fresh FM, Sunday 11am
Christchurch - RDU 98.3FM Student Radio, has no specific queer show but does have queer news, play queer artists and all the rest as part of their daily programme.
Christchurch - Outwaves, Plains, 96.9FM , Monday 8pm
Christchurch - Lesbians on Air, Plains 96.9FM Monday 9.30 - 10pm (note 9-9.30pm from 18th March)
Dunedin -Dykes on Mikes, 91FM Radio One, Tuesday 8pm
Dunedin -Tea with the Boys, 91FM Radio One, Sundays 9-10pm

Reviews

None this week

Events - Upcoming

Mr Gay NZ - 28 July 1996
Auckland International Film Festival - 19 July to 3 August 1996
Auckland Gay Tramping Group - 14 July 1996
Auckland Ten Years Dance - 13 July 1996
Auckland Community Church Gay Law Reform - 10 July 1996
Auckland 10 years on social event - 9 July 1996
Auckland Community Church - 30 June 1996
Auckland Gay Tramping Group - 29 June 1996
Auckland Community Church - Every Sunday 8pm
Auckland Gay Bowling Association - Every Sunday 5pm
Team Auckland Runners - Every Sunday 10am
Team Auckland Swimmers - Every Tuesday and Thursday 8pm, Saturday 10am
Te Waka Awhina Takatapui Kapa Haka - Every Tuesday 7pm.

Hamilton International Film Festival - 16 August to 29 August 1996
Hamilton KD LANG **** ALL YOU CAN EAT **** PIZZA NIGHT To celebrate the arrival of the DIVA herself in NZ At Pizza Hut, Hamilton East, Grey St. WEDNESDAY 26th June Dinnertime (from 6.30pm onwards)
Hamilton Gaylink dropin - Every Wednesday 8pm

New Plymouth Community Brunch - June 20
New Plymouth Pride Ball - June 29
New Plymouth Picnic - June 29
New Plymouth smokefree dessert evening - June 28
New Plymouth Board Game evening - June 27
New Plymouth workshops on holistic health topics - June 25 and 26
New Plymouth Dog Walk - June 24
New Plymouth Ten Pin Bowling - June 24
Palmerston North International Film Festival 9 August to 22 August 1996

Wellington Lesbian Overland and Cafe Club - 21 July 1996
Wellington International Film Festival - 12 July to 27 July 1996
Ten Years Out Lunchtime panel discussion - 12 July 1996
Ten Years Out Commemoration Parliament - 9 July 1996
Galaxies - Wellington - 7 July 1996
Ten Years Out The Magical History Tour 7 July 1996
Wellington Lesbian Overland and Cafe Club - 7 July 1996
Ten Years Out Blatent Dance - 6 July 1996
Ten Years Out Gay BC 783 Access AM special programme - 6 July 1996
GLEE International Conference - 6 to 8 July 1996
Hutt Lesbian Group - 5 July 1996
Ten Years Out Commemorative Dinner - 5 July 1996
Ten Years Out GaLaXies Concert - 4 July 1996
Gay Association of Professionals - 4 July 1996
Ten Years Out HUG (Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays) reunion - 3 July 1996
Ten Years Out LAGANZ Law Reform Exhibition, 1 -12 July 1996
Ten Years Out Opening of LAGANZ Law Reform exhibition - 1 July 1996
Wellington Lesbian Doods Dance - 29 June 1996
Wellington The Great Winter Solstice Lesbian Quiz Night - 22 June 1996
Wellington Lesbian Library (LILAC) - Every Wednesday 6-8pm, Saturdays noon - 3pm

Nelson Express Decade Dance Party Saturday, 6 July 1996
Nelson Spectrum - Every Thursday 7.30pm

Christchurch International Film Festival 2 August to 7 August 1996
Christchurch Over 30's social group call +64-3-381-0173 - 20 June 1996
Christchurch UBQ pool tournament - 19 June 1996
Christchurch Police liaison meeting 5pm call +64-3-379-9453 - 18 June 1996
Christchurch Deadly Advice Labour Party premiere, Academy cinema 7pm $15 call +64-3-384-9590 -16 June 1996
Christchurch Lambda Walkers tramping group Purple Peak, Akaroa - meet Peterborough Centre 9am - 16 June 1996

Akaroa Lesbian and Gay Group meets every 3rd Saturday.

Dunedin International Film Festival 26 July to 10 August 1996
Dunedin Pride 96 from June 23 to 6th July
23rd - Dog show and Purple Passions vs Gay boys ressurrection soccer match
26th - Queer night, Bath St
28th - Anniversary of Stonewall. Celebrate with a night out at gourmet pizza bar Filadelfio's. Enjoy a few drinks, a game of pool, and a reduced rate on the pizzas!
29th - Literary Soiree. Presentation of awards for the Out and Proud Short Story writing competition.
30th - Shop-in at Countdown - come and do your shopping for the week from 1-3pm for a "presence" at Countdown on Cumberland St...
3rd - Womens Night at Bath St
4th - Scrabble Tournament at the Pickled Penguin from 8pm (during Queerspace). Bring a board if you have one!
6th - Pride for '96 is capped off with the Masquerade Ball
Art exbihition 17th June onwards for two weeks
Dunedin lesbian indoor cricket team - Every Sunday
Dunedin Queerspace - Every Thursday
Dunedin Beyond the Closet - Every Fortnight

Nelson - Ten Year celebration plans

Nelson is planning an inclusive event organised by a group representing the gay and lesbian communities.

1. Publication of a commemorative booklet containing a brief chronology of events a people involved in the district leading up to law reform; also statements from community members on significance of law reform to themselves.

2. A Dance Party on Saturday July 6 at the Arts centre, cnr New and Halstead Sts., Nelson, starting at 5pm with drinks and finger food. At 8pm, the main Dance Party starts. Several acts, items, and other diversions are planned to make these two sessions into a memorable night.
(Note that both events are at the same venue and follow on from one to the other. Tickets are now available from Spectrum at $13 dollars each and cover the whole night - $15 at the door. The Dance Party is BYO. A copy of the commemorative booklet is included in the door price.)

3. On Sunday 7th, a 2-hour radio special combining the talents and resources of Dyke FM and Gaytime FM will be broadcast over Fresh FM, 99.4MHz, starting at 10am, hangovers notwithstanding. (Note that Dyke FM normally starts at 10am and Gaytime FM starts at 11am on this station every Sunday morning and both normally run for half an hour each. Henry tells me that the programme on the 7th will be two hours continuous and both combined into the one programme. He also tells me that Fresh FM is planning a special two hour programme for sometime on Tuesday, July 9th, but at this stage, plans are sketchy.)

New Zealand Film Festival

This selection details films which are directed by gay or lesbian directors in the forthcoming New Zealand International Film Festival .

ANTONIA'S LINE
Netherlands/Belgium/UK, 1995.
Audience Award: Voted most popular film, Toronto, 1995
Academy Award 1996: Best Foreign Language Film.
Director: Marlene Gorris.

"Taking in matriarchy that begins at the end of World War II and extends through four generations of a very quirky family, Antonia's Line posits - with organic growth rather than theoretical authority - a kind of rural utopia derived from feminine wisdom and tolerance... [it] cherishes the possibility of continuity and civilization, a rare and hopeful sign at the end of our chaotic century. Outstanding." - Kathleen Murphy, Film Comment, Nov/Dec, 1995. "As the title suggests, the film is a dynastic tale, a story of several generations of women and their friends bound by love and respect. What gives it such texture is that it takes place in an earthy blunt speaking community in which the exuberantly liberated Antonia fits in just fine with various local eccentrics, irritating only the dour local Catholic priest, who proves no match for her anyway... Antonia's Line [is] quirky, hilarious yet quite affecting in its elegiac moods. The astringent yet warm Van Ammelrooy rightly dominates as Antonia, but the large cast forms a distinctive ensemble. To label Antonia's Line a feminist film seems somehow to diminish its wonderful embracing quality. Gorris - and Antonia - have this scarcely radical notion that women are men's equals... and sometimes their superiors." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, 2/2/96

THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET
Spain, 1995. London Film Festival, 1995.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar.

"Pedro Almodóvar's latest feels like a new beginning, and a welcome one at that. Gone are the chic excesses of `Kika' and the uneasy balance between superficial sensationalism and pocket melodrama that's marked his work since `Women on the Verge'. Here we have his most open, unadorned, emotive and maybe even courageous film to date, an intimate portrait of pain and regeneration that strikes the heart without recourse to cheap tricks. Previously in `Dark Habits' and `High Heels', Marisa Paredes does her director proud with an enormously sympathetic performance as Leo, a fortysomething writer of romantic fiction who hits crisis point when she's rejected by her aloof absentee husband and finds herself trapped by her populist reputation when she tries to expand her literary horizons. Although there's support on hand from Angel (Juan Echanove), cultural editor of heavyweight newspaper El Pais, and the constant bickering between her mother and sister (Almodóvar regulars Chus Lampreave and Rossy De Palma, a double-act to treasure) doesn't help matters, a trip home to her native La Mancha village proves an unlikely source of solace. Rarely has Almodóvar focused so squarely on a single character, and the challenge of developing an individual portrayal to such a degree has put him back in contact with the emotional realities of an everyday damaged life, where loneliness, professional frustration and the irritation and commitment that inform familial relationships are observed with perceptiveness, honesty and the usual incisive humour. Apart from the jazzy title sequence and the deeply unimpressed attitude to Spanish machismo, it's not what you'd expect from `an Almodóvar film', but it's the mark of a real artist that he can reinvent his output while remaining true to the inner self. Fans and detractors alike should not miss." - Trevor Johnston, Time Out 24/1/96

FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
USA, 1995. Toronto, New York Film Festivals, 1995.
Producer/Screenplay/Editor: Mark Rappaport.

"From the Journals of Jean Seberg is a haunting, multifaceted fictional essay as well as a daring piece of speculative film criticism and social history built around a teasing void by American independent Mark Rappaport (Rock Hudson's Home Movies). Mary Beth Hurt stars as the enigmatic title actress of Bonjour Tristesse and Breathless, presiding over Seberg's clips as she puzzles over the anomalies of her life and career, not to mention those of Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave." - New York Film Festival. "Rappaport's follow-up to Rock Hudson's Home Movies is an even bolder amalgam of free-associational film theory, cunningly outré montage and deadpan bitchiness." - J Hoberman. "An exhilarating rumination on celebrity, gender, filmmaking, politics, the Sixties, it leapfrogs from topic to topic, trusting to naught but the capacious mind of the filmmaker, which we are happy to follow... A cinephile's delight." - Phillip Lopate, Film Comment, Nov/Dec, 1995

MARTHA
Germany, 1973. Toronto, New York Film Festivals, 1994.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

"In the midst of his most creative and prolific period of filmmaking (including Fear Eats the Soul, Effi Briest and Fox and his Friends), Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote and directed Martha for German television with the intention of its international cinema release. It caused a sensation at the London Film Festival... then copyright complications stepped in and kept the film from the screens for 20 years. Martha is a film noir about a marriage - a tale of domination by a suave male plotting to drive his wife into submission or madness... Martha will resonate with its audience for a long time to come. A masterpiece of the highest proportions." - Der Spiegel

Gay Switchboards and information lines

AIDS Hotline - Auckland +64-9-3580099 Toll free 0800-802-437 24 Hours
Whangarei Gay Help - +64-9-437-7620, Tuesday and Thursday 7 to 9.30pm
Auckland Gayline - +64-9-303-3584 10am to 10pm weekdays, 2pm to 10pm weekends.
Hamilton Gayline - +64-7-854-9631, Wednesday 8 to 10pm
Rotorua Gayline - +64-7-348-3598, Tuesday 7 to 9pm
Napier Gayline - +64-6-835-7482, 5pm to 8am.
Palmerston North - +64-6-358-5378 24 hour answerservice.
Wellington Switchboard - +64-4-385-0674, 7.30pm to 10pm
Wellington Lesbian Line - +64-4-389-8082 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 7.30 to 10pm.
Greymouth/Reefton Gayline - +64-3-768-4366, Wednesday to Friday 6 to 9pm.
Westport Gayline - +64-3-789-6027, Friday 7-8.30pm
Hokitika Gayline - +64-3-755-6270, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 7-10pm
Christchurch Gayline - +64-3-379-4796 Mondays 8-9pm, Saturday 7.30 to 10pm
Christchurch Gay Information line - +64-3-379-3990 24 hour recorded service.
Dunedin Gayline - +64-3-477-2077 24 hour recorded service. Answered on Wednesday 5.30 to 7.30pm, Friday 7.30 to 10.30pm
Dunedin Lesbian Line - +64-3-477-2077 24 hour recorded service. Answered on Tuesday 5.30 to 7.30pm

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