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Remembering Neil Costelloe
Jayne (sitting by an open fire) remembers her brother Neil Costelloe. Neil was very active in the fight...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, activism, anger, gay, lesbian...
Published: April 2016
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Rangimoana Taylor
Rangimoana talks about growing up, biculturalism, activism and storytelling...
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, gay, takataapui...
Published: March 2015
Found in: People
Art, Craft and the AIDS Crisis
Audio from the panel discussion Art, Craft and the AIDS Crisis held at the Dowse Art Museum, Lower...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, gay, hiv and aids, homosexual...
Published: May 2018
Found in: HIV AIDS
Bill Logan
Bill talks about growing up, being an activist and his role in homosexual law reform...
Tags: activism, gay, gay liberation movement, homosexual law reform, human rights, t...
Published: February 2010
Found in: People
Committee of the Whole House (16 April 1986)
Audio from parts of the Committee of the Whole House during the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, 16 April...
Tags: 1980s, equality, homosexual, homosexual law reform, homosexual law reform peti...
Published: April 1986
Found in: Parliamentary proceedings
Cindy Lewis
Cindy Lewis from New Zealand talks about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: 2010s, asia pacific outgames (2011), cindy lewis, gisborne, human rights, tran...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Elizabeth Kerekere
Elizabeth reflects on her early activist years with the Black Women's movement, homosexual law reform, the formation of...
Tags: 1980s, academia, cisgender, femme, gender fluid, takataapui...
Published: December 2015
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Miriam Saphira
Miriam talks about establishing the Charlotte Museum Trust - a museum based in Auckland that collects and preserves...
Tags: activism, archives, arts, education, elders, feminism...
Published: March 2012
Found in: Creating Our Stories
Anne Speir
Anne talks about growing up, working in the media, activism in the 1970s and 1980s, working on the...
Tags: activism, arts, feminism, gay liberation movement, media, performance...
Published: August 2011
Found in: Making a Difference
Living well
A list of archived articles from GayNZ.com, in the original category of: Living well...
Tags: 2000s, 2010s, aotearoa new zealand, gaynz.com, internet, media...
Published: January 2001
Found in: GayNZ
Phillip Peek
Phillip Peek recalls working at the Sun sauna, a sex-on-site venue, in the mid-1970s and early 1980s and...
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, abortion, gay, homosexual law reform, people...
Published: July 2018
Found in: People
Des and John
An interview with Des Smith and John Jolliff, recorded during the community event Queer History in the Making...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, archives, bullying, community...
Published: September 2015
Found in: Queer History in the Making
Dangerous Desires
Audio from the session: Dangerous Desires. In the past, LGBTQI readers had to search for sexual information in...
Tags: asexual, bisexual, butch, gay, intersex, lesbian...
Published: February 2016
Found in: Same Same But Different (2016)
Now and Then
Audio from the session: Now and Then. A mash-up of readings of new voices and established writers noted...
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, gay, lesbian, queer, transgender...
Published: February 2016
Found in: Same Same But Different (2016)
Laws and Customs
Audio from the workshop: Laws and customs in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity in Oceania. The...
Tags: akava'ine, fa'afafine, fakaleiti, homosexual, lesbian, trans*...
Published: March 2016
Found in: Proud 2016
Tim Barnett
Tim Barnett talks about growing up in the United Kingdom; becoming Britain's "first professional homosexual"; moving to New...
Tags: 1960s, 1990s, 2000s, activism, adoption, gay...
Published: November 2013
Found in: Rainbow Politicians
Julian Cook
Julian talks about organising a variety of corporate and community-based events, including the GABA Gold Charity Auction, and...
Tags: community, event management, organising, support, venues, volunteer...
Published: March 2012
Found in: Creating Our Stories
Crimes Amendment Bill (1974)
In 1974 Venn Young, National MP for Egmont, introduced the Crimes Amendment Bill to legalise homosexuality for those...
Tags: 1970s, blackmail, church, gay, homosexual, lesbian...
Published: July 1975
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Session 1
Audio from the session: Indigenous feminisms and social movements. Participants include Marama Davidson and Shasha Ali...
Tags: activism, anarchism, family, fear, feminism, indigenous peoples...
Published: June 2013
Found in: C.L.I.T Fest Wellington 2013
Ed Jenner
Ed talks about performing in the Queen of the Whole Universe beauty pageant - from the first show...
Tags: auckland, drag, ed jenner, performance, queen of the whole universe, theatre...
Published: February 2012
Found in: Queen of the Whole Universe
Torfrida and Ali
Torfrida and Ali talk about the lesbian scene in Canterbury in the 1980s and their personal journeys...
Tags: activism, ageing, butch, climate change, community, dance...
Published: November 2013
Found in: People
Renato Sabbadini
Audio from the opening address of ILGA Executive Director Renato Sabbadini at the 2nd ILGA Oceania Rainbow Human...
Tags: bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, takataapui, transgender...
Published: March 2016
Found in: Proud 2016
Harris Street
On a night in July 1975 a police officer questioned MP Colin Moyle who was lingering around a...
Tags: 1970s, cruising, member of parliament, politics, public toilet, video online...
Published: January 2016
Found in: Wellington waterfront
Session 9
Audio from the session: Beyond the gender binary. There is so much more than she and he, him...
Tags: 2010s, attitude, genderqueer, intersex, non-binary, transgender...
Published: October 2013
Found in: Beyond conference
Speeches before Marriage Equality march
Audio of the speeches before the march for Marriage Equality. Speakers include Brooklynne Kennedy, Joseph Habgood and...
Tags: activism, civil unions, community, human rights, identity, law...
Published: August 2012
Found in: Marriage Equality
Huhana Hickey
Huhana Hickey from New Zealand talks about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: 2010s, activism, asia pacific outgames (2011), disability, human rights, welli...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Paramount Theatre
The Paramount has hosted the (mostly) annual OutTakes: A Reel Queer Film Festival since the mid 1990s. In...
Tags: 2010s, film, internet, lesbian, stereotypes, video online...
Published: January 2016
Found in: Wellington waterfront
New Zealand Parliament
Audio from a parliamentary motion put by the Prime Minister to acknowledge the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub...
Tags: 2010s, bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, transgender...
Published: June 2016
Found in: Orlando mass shooting
Mitch Yusof
Mitch Yusof from Malaysia talks about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: 2010s, asia pacific outgames (2011), human rights, malaysia, mitch yusof...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Drew Hadwen
Drew Hadwen talks about the development of the Devotion dance parties/festivals, and the Beacons of Hope services in...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, assimilation, belonging, hiv and aids...
Published: August 2018
Found in: People