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Samantha
Samantha talks about growing up in Invercargill, homophobia at university and bisexuality...
Tags: activism, assimilation, christianity, coming out, community, confidence...
Published: May 2014
Found in: South
Part 1 (16 October 1985)
Audio from parts of the debate during the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, 16 October...
Tags: 1980s, equality, homosexual, homosexual law reform, homosexual law reform peti...
Published: October 1985
Found in: Parliamentary proceedings
David Hindley
David talks about his photography during the period of homosexual law reform (1985/86)...
Tags: 1980s, homosexual law reform, human rights, images online, media, photography...
Published: June 2011
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Donald Stenhouse
Don talks about what it's like to be an older gay man. Don died on 7 January 2018...
Tags: 2010s, ageing, drug therapy, elder issues, elders, gay...
Published: September 2012
Found in: Older Gay Men
Andy Boreham
Andy talks about helping organise the annual Out in the Square community fair in Wellington...
Tags: community, event management, identity, organisation, organising, social...
Published: February 2012
Found in: Creating Our Stories
Crystal and Harriet
Crystal and Harriet talk about identity and relationships...
Tags: adoption, children, coming out, community, education, employment...
Published: October 2013
Found in: South
Grace Poore
Grace Poore delivers a keynote presentation...
Tags: 2010s, asia pacific outgames (2011), grace poore, human rights, transcript onl...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Geoffrey Marshall
Geoffrey talks about growing up, Heroic Gardens and the Gay Auckland Business Association (GABA)...
Tags: 1960s, auckland, gay, gay auckland business association (gaba), heroic gardens...
Published: August 2011
Found in: Making a Difference
Session 6
Audio from the session: Takaktāpui perspectives. Historically Māori society was based on sexual diversity and acceptance of difference...
Tags: christianity, colonisation, diversity, identity, maori, sexuality...
Published: October 2013
Found in: Beyond conference
Anna
Anna talks about identifying as a binary identified transsexual...
Tags: adoption, bdsm, bullying, civil unions, coming out, denial...
Published: May 2014
Found in: South
Youth and Womens hui report backs
Report backs from the youth pre-conference hui and the women's pre-conference hui, followed by Ros Noonan - patron...
Tags: aromantic, asexual, bisexual, cis female, cis male, gay...
Published: March 2016
Found in: Proud 2016
HLR30 Hands On
Creek talks about HLR30 Hands On - a massage event in April 2016 to show appreciation to the...
Tags: bisexual, butch, gay, lesbian, queer, trans...
Published: February 2016
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Vaitoa Toelupe
Vaitoa Toelupe from Samoa talks about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: asia pacific outgames (2011), human rights, samoa, transgender, vaitoa toelupe...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Part 1
Audio from the session: The Book That Turned the Light On. In a past of illegality and stigma...
Tags: 1960s, gay, homosexual, lesbian, queer, transgender...
Published: February 2016
Found in: Same Same But Different (2016)
Peter Lineham
Peter talks about his religious and spiritual journey and how he came to Auckland Community Church...
Tags: billboards, christianity, church, civil rights, civil unions, coming out...
Published: March 2013
Found in: Religion and Spirituality
Meeting places
Alison talks about the different types of places queer communities met...
Tags: 1940s, club 41 (wellington), royal oak hotel (wellington), social, transcript ...
Published: January 2011
Found in: Queer History 101
Stefanie Upchurch
Stefanie Upchurch describes how the Out Proud portrait series came about and what it was like to photograph...
Tags: 2010s, arts, bisexual, gay, images online, lesbian...
Published: 2011
Found in: Gallery
Ellen
Ellen talks about coming out and identifying as bisexual...
Tags: biphobia, coming out, dating, discrimination, employment, family...
Published: May 2014
Found in: South
Green
Hinemoana talks about growing up and dealing with depression...
Tags: 1970s, bisexual, lesbian, takataapui, transcript online, video online...
Published: 2010
Found in: Rainbow Touchstones
Opening of Out in the Park
Audio from the opening of Out in the Park, held in Waitangi Park, Wellington on Saturday 12 March...
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, cis male, homosexual law reform, marriage, queer...
Published: March 2016
Found in: Wellington Pride Festival 2016
Welcome to Te Manawa Museum
Audio from the welcoming ceremony for the Manawatu Lesbian and Gay Rights Association (MALGRA) to Te Manawa Museum...
Tags: 1970s, bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, transgender...
Published: July 2017
Found in: MALGRA
Gifting ceremony, Auckland
Audio and images from the gifting ceremony of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to Te Papa -...
Tags: 2010s, aotearoa new zealand, auckland, gals (gay and lesbian singers, auckland...
Published: April 2012
Found in: Gifting the Quilt to Te Papa
Sophie Jayawardene
Sophie talks about being diagnosed HIV+ in 1989, her journey with HIV and living positively...
Tags: 1980s, abortion, activism, children, discrimination, heterosexual...
Published: April 2014
Found in: HIV/AIDS
Reflections on Church and State
Audio from a marriage equality discussion held at St Andrew's on the Terrace on 7 November 2012. Rev...
Tags: 2010s, civil unions, discrimination, equality, homosexual law reform, human ri...
Published: November 2012
Found in: Marriage Equality
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2018
Audio from the Transgender Day of Remembrance service held at St. Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington on 18...
Tags: 2010s, authenticity, bravery, intersex, trans, transgender...
Published: November 2018
Found in: Events
Anne Perry
Joanne Drayton discusses her biography of crime writer Anne Perry, better known in New Zealand as the convicted...
Tags: 1950s, 2010s, courts, crime, feminism, lesbian...
Published: September 2012
Found in: People
Bob Davis
Bob Davis talks about the anger and activism of the 1970s which laid the foundations for homosexual law...
Tags: 1970s, 2010s, activism, allies, anger, anti-apartheid movement...
Published: March 2016
Found in: Out in the Park participants
Max Tweedie - Director of Auckland Pride
Max Tweedie talks about becoming the new Director of Auckland Pride. This interview was recorded a month...
Tags: 2010s, intersex, non-binary, queer, trans, transgender...
Published: May 2019
Found in: Auckland Pride Festival 2020
25th anniversary panel discussion
Fran Wilde, Alison Laurie and Bill Logan reflect on the campaign for homosexual law reform in the mid-1980s...
Tags: 2010s, activism, gay liberation movement, history, homosexual law reform, huma...
Published: March 2011
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Julie Douglas and co
Julie Douglas, Liz Robinson and Rob Haultain from New Zealand talk about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: 2010s, asia pacific outgames (2011), human rights, julie douglas, unions, well...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames