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Committee stage of the Bill
Audio from the committee stage of the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill...
Tags: 1980s, gay, historic convictions, homosexual, transexual, transgender...
Published: March 2018
Found in: Historic Convictions
Spectrum website (1996)
Kevin Jensen talks about creating one of the earliest rainbow websites originating from New Zealand. The website went...
Tags: 1990s, acceptance, access, bisexual, gay, heterosexual...
Published: May 2018
Found in: Arts and Media
Launch of the Wellington Pride Festival 2019
Audio from the launch of the Wellington Pride Festival, held at Thistle Hall on 8 March 2019. 0006...
Tags: 2010s, accessibility, bisexual flag, civil unions, trans, transgender...
Published: March 2019
Found in: Wellington Pride Festival 2019
Queer Avengers
Sara Fraser talks about the history of the Queer Avengers and some of its activities. The group was...
Tags: cis female, gay, lesbian, non-binary, queer, trans...
Published: September 2018
Found in: Groups and Organisations
Committee of the Whole House (2 April 1986)
Audio from parts of the Committee of the Whole House during the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, 2 April...
Tags: 1980s, equality, homosexual, homosexual law reform, homosexual law reform peti...
Published: April 1986
Found in: Parliamentary proceedings
Prue Hyman
Prue takes Jac Lynch through a personal archive of newspaper articles, letters and submissions made in support of...
Tags: androgynous, butch femme, intersex, lesbian, queer, transgender...
Published: November 2015
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Aged Care Research
Michal talks about research into the care of Rainbow people in aged residential care in New Zealand...
Tags: ageing, ageism, caregiver, civil unions, closeted, community...
Published: May 2013
Found in: Ageing
Gabi Rosenstreich
Gabi Rosenstreich from Australia talks about attending the human rights conference...
Tags: 2010s, asia pacific outgames (2011), australia, gabi rosenstreich, human right...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Lesbian organising
Alison talks about early lesbian organising in New Zealand...
Tags: 1970s, activism, lesbian, organisation, social, transcript online...
Published: January 2011
Found in: Queer History 101
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
Tony Smith
Tony talks about being married with children and then coming out in his 50s...
Tags: ageing, arts, children, church, coming out, creativity...
Published: October 2013
Found in: People
Preserving the Quilt
Textile conservator Rachael Collinge and textile conservation volunteer Anne Williams talk about the process of preserving the quilt...
Tags: aotearoa new zealand, archives, history, hiv/aids, legacy, preservation...
Published: August 2012
Found in: Gifting the Quilt to Te Papa
Participants (part 2)
Rowan Moulder talks to participants at Shift hui 2016. More participant interviews can be heard in part...
Tags: agender, asexual, cisgender, femme, gay, lesbian...
Published: April 2016
Found in: Shift hui (2016)
Session 8
Audio from the session: Invisible sexualities within queer communities. While the passing of marriage rights for same-sex couples...
Tags: abuse, biphobia, bullying, children, christianity, coming out...
Published: October 2013
Found in: Beyond conference
National news
A list of archived articles from GayNZ.com, in the original category of: National news...
Tags: 2000s, 2010s, aotearoa new zealand, gaynz.com, internet, media...
Published: January 2001
Found in: GayNZ
Iris Florence Peter Williams
Julie Glamuzina talks about her book Perfectly Natural: The audacious story of Iris Florence Peter Williams. The original...
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, archives, birth certificate, courts, transgender...
Published: October 2015
Found in: Arts and Media
Geetanjali Misra
Geetanjali Misra delivers a keynote presentation...
Tags: 2010s, activism, asia pacific outgames (2011), human rights, india, transcript...
Published: March 2011
Found in: 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames
Beyond Rainbows
Panel members talk about the challenges of being a minority within rainbow communities. The discussion was...
Tags: agender, aromantic, asexual, bisexual, gay, intersex...
Published: April 2016
Found in: Shift hui (2016)
Thats So Gay
Grizz talks to the cast and crew of That's So Gay about how the production was devised and...
Tags: 2010s, arts, coming out, education, growing up, images online...
Published: April 2012
Found in: Arts and Media
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen sends a message to the Marriage Equality Conference. The message was played during the first keynote...
Tags: aotearoa new zealand, legislative council chamber (parliament), marriage, marr...
Published: November 2012
Found in: Marriage Equality Conference
Randy Alfred
Randy talks about producing the radio programme The Gay Life, which broadcast on KSAN San Francisco in the...
Tags: activism, archives, briggs initiative, coming out, community, crime...
Published: June 2012
Found in: People
Sexuality and Gender workshop
Hui participants take part in a workshop on sexuality and gender. The hui ran from the 16 -...
Tags: 2010s, bisexual, non-binary, pansexual, polysexual, transgender...
Published: April 2015
Found in: Shift hui (2015)
The Legislative Process
Audio from the first keynote panel discussion: Sexual Minorities and the Legislative Process. 0:00:00 - Mihi: Rangimoana Taylor
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Tags: 2010s, activism, age of consent, civil unions, community, courts...
Published: November 2012
Found in: Marriage Equality Conference
Mo
Mo talks about growing up in Kaitaia, being a Diversity Liaison Officer with the New Zealand Police and...
Tags: 2010s, acceptance, accomodation, buddhism, butch, transcript online...
Published: April 2015
Found in: Butch on Butch
Summer Camps
The cast and creative team behind Summer Camps talk about the production and its origins. The...
Tags: bisexual, intersex, kamp, lesbian, non-binary, queer...
Published: February 2019
Found in: Wellington Pride Festival 2019
True stories
A list of archived articles from GayNZ.com, in the original category of: True stories...
Tags: 2000s, 2010s, aotearoa new zealand, gaynz.com, internet, media...
Published: January 2001
Found in: GayNZ
Creek
Creek talks about identifying as a butch female submissive transmasculine lesbian...
Tags: butch, femme, lesbian, queer, transcript online, transmasculine...
Published: March 2015
Found in: Butch on Butch
Session 6
Audio from the session: Desire as social currency and how desire is constructed around stigmatised and non-normative bodies...
Tags: de-transition, desexualisation, desire, fetishism, hate, identity...
Published: June 2013
Found in: C.L.I.T Fest Wellington 2013
Neon Rainbow
A group of men reflect on drug and alcohol use in the gay community...
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, alcohol and drug abuse, depression, gay, transcript online...
Published: 1999
Found in: Documentary
Charles Chauvel
Charles Chauvel from the Labour Party talks to Jo Jackson about what it's like to be a Member...
Tags: 2000s, bullying, civil unions, dignity, gay, transgender...
Published: October 2012
Found in: Rainbow Politicians