People
This section contains recordings that are about individual experiences and life stories.
Julz Darroch
Julz talks about exercise and wellness...
Tags: 1970s, employment, family, fitness, lesbian, transcript online...
Published: October 2010
Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown talks about growing up in a small town and coming out. This podcast was funded by...
Tags: 2010s, coming out, gay, hate crime, homophobia, transcript online...
Published: June 2010
Kevin Hague profile
On the eve of his departure from Parliament, MP Kevin Hague reflects on his time in politics as...
Tags: bisexual, gay, intersex, queer, trans, transgender...
Published: September 2016
Kira
Kira talks about transitioning from male to female at seventeen...
Tags: auckland, coming out, gender identity, transcript online, transgender, youth...
Published: May 2010
Lana Lawless
Lana talks about growing up, transitioning and becoming the 2008 women's world long drive golf champion. Lana was...
Tags: coming out, courts, family, gender identity, human rights, law...
Published: June 2012
Madam Mary
Madam Mary talks about the sex industry and being bendy...
Tags: 1980s, gender identity, madam mary, sex, sexuality...
Published: March 2010
Mani Bruce Mitchell
Mani talks about being the first out Intersex person in New Zealand...
Tags: 1960s, gender identity, intersex, profile, sexuality, transcript online...
Published: February 2010
Mary O'Hagan
Mary talks about growing up and mental health issues...
Tags: 1960s, health, lesbian, mental health, profile, transcript online...
Published: October 2010
Meg Torwl
Meg, a multidisciplinary artist, talks about her life and creative process. You can view some of Meg's photography...
Tags: abuse, ageing, ageism, arts, civil rights, colonisation...
Published: March 2013
Mike Bryant and Esme Oliver
Mike and Esme talk about being young and queer. This podcast was funded by a generous donation from...
Tags: 2010s, gay, lesbian, media, queer, transcript online...
Published: April 2010
Miscellaneouslee
Miscellaneouslee talks about family life, Auckland in the 1980s and performing in drag...
Tags: acceptance, bullying, children, coming out, creativity, culture...
Published: October 2013
Moments with Johnny Croskery
A selection of memories from Johnny Croskery, who was active in Wellington's drag scene from the 1960s. Johnny...
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, death, drag, queer, transgender...
Published: 1999
Neville Creighton
Neville talks about his background, becoming the first Director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, secondary school teaching...
Tags: adoption, age of consent, beats, bible, celebrant, children...
Published: February 2013
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku published New Zealand's first openly lesbian fiction in the 1970s, and in that same decade...
Tags: 1970s, 2010s, external resource, gay liberation movement, lesbian, radio new z...
Published: March 2017
Nikki Lee Carlson
Nikki Lee reflects on a journey that has taken her from having a successful singer career as a...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, addiction, gay, transgender...
Published: July 2016
Paul Diamond
Paul talks about his careers as a writer, journalist and historian...
Tags: archives, coming out, media, profile, wellington, writing...
Published: February 2010
Paul
Paul talks about growing up in Australia in the 1950s, sex work in New York City, cruising Rudolf...
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, bisexual, gay, homosexual, pansexual...
Published: April 2015
Peri Te Wao
Peri talks about growing up and transitioning from female to male...
Tags: 1980s, coming out, peri te wao, transgender...
Published: April 2010
Peter Wells
Peter talks about the journey as a film maker and writer...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, gay, homosexual, transexual...
Published: October 2013
Philip Patston
Philip talks about growing up, identity, comedy and uniqueness...
Tags: accessibility, acting, activism, arts, assistive technology, benefits...
Published: February 2013
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
Priscilla Penniket
Priscilla talks about working for Rainbow Youth to do homophobia education in schools...
Tags: 1990s, education, hate crime, homophobia, school, transcript online...
Published: May 2010
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
Rangimoana Taylor
Rangimoana talks about growing up, biculturalism, activism and storytelling...
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, gay, takataapui...
Published: March 2015
Rene Capone
Rene talks about growing up and working as an artist in San Francisco, USA...
Tags: arts, gay, profile, san francisco, united states of america, visual arts...
Published: June 2008
Rex Halliday
Rex talks about growing up in New Plymouth, the Gay Liberation movement, early HIV AIDS prevention programmes and...
Tags: activism, coming out, community, drugs, family, gay liberation movement...
Published: April 2013
Rick Gerharter
Rick talks about his photo-journalism career, including the early years of photographing AIDS activism in San Francisco...
Tags: activism, arts, coming out, community, demonstrations, hiv and aids...
Published: June 2012
Robin Duff
Robin Duff talks about many of the activist groups he was involved with in the 1970s, being the...
Tags: activism, advertising, age of consent, bullying, civil unions, coming out...
Published: April 2013
Ronald Trifero Nelson
Ronald talks about growing up and a number of plays that he has written and directed...
Tags: 1960s, arts, gay, profile, relationships, sexuality...
Published: April 2010