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Cole Hampton
Cole Hampton talks about growing up, creating Pamela Hancock, Pride, and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in...
Tags: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, abuse, activism, gay...
Published: March 2020
Found in: Arts and Media
Queer Objects
Audio from the Queer Objects event, held during Wellington's Pride Festival on 29 February 2020 at Te Papa...
Tags: 2020s, books, button, collections online (te papa), drag, female impersonation...
Published: February 2020
Found in: Wellington Pride Festival 2020
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
The Glamaphones - member interviews
Members of the Glamaphones talk about being a part of a rainbow choir and their two upcoming...
Tags: 2010s, children, choirs, community, community choir, concerts...
Published: February 2019
Found in: Wellington Pride Festival 2019
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
Launch of the touring Topp Twins exhibition
Audio from the launch of the touring Topp Twins exhibition, held at the National Library of New Zealand...
Tags: 1080 poison, 2010s, homosexual law reform, lesbian, takataapui, wahine toa...
Published: March 2018
Found in: Arts and Media
Matt
Matt talks about the early years of the Manawatu Gay Rights Association (MAGRA), its development into the Manawatu...
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, advertising, butch, trans, transgender...
Published: July 2017
Found in: MALGRA
Rachel Hoskin
Rachel Hoskin talks about Butch: A Photographic Exploration, a social project of reaction to Butch women. The...
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, butch, femme, soft butch, wahine toa...
Published: July 2017
Found in: Arts and Media
Sian Torrington
Sian Torrington, curator of the Topp Twins exhibition, talks about the process of developing the exhibition at Te...
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, activism, butch, lesbian, queer...
Published: July 2017
Found in: Arts and Media
Service for Virginia Burns
Audio from the service to commemorate and celebrate the life of Virginia Burns (a.k.a Virginia Parker-Bowles). The...
Tags: butch femme, femme queen, gay, lesbian, queer, trans...
Published: June 2017
Found in: Events
Rainbow taonga at Te Papa
History curators Stephanie Gibson and Lynette Townsend showcase some of the many rainbow taonga held in the Museum...
Tags: bisexual, fa'afafine, gay, lesbian, takataapui, transgender...
Published: August 2016
Found in: Groups and Organisations
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
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)
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
Circa Theatre (Harris Street)
The corner of Harris Street and Jervois Quay is the former location of Circa Theatre. The Topp...
Tags: 1980s, circa theatre (wellington), performance, theatre, walk tour, walking...
Published: January 2016
Found in: Wellington waterfront
St James Theatre
The Topp Twins, Douglas Wright, Michael Parmenter have all performed at the St. James. The theatre is also...
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, dance, grief, hiv/aids, video online...
Published: January 2016
Found in: Wellington waterfront
Open mic sessions
Audio from the open mic sessions held during the community event Queer History in the Making, where individuals...
Tags: fa'afafine, gay, intersex, lesbian, queer, takataapui...
Published: September 2015
Found in: Queer History in the Making
Tighe Instone
Tighe talks about being part of various groups that rallied in support of homosexual law reform. A selection...
Tags: 1980s, activism, age of consent, butch, gay, lesbian...
Published: June 2015
Found in: Homosexual Law Reform
Val
Val talks about lesbian movements in the 1990s, visibility and co-founding The Drag Kings...
Tags: 2010s, androgynous, butch, femme, lesbian, transcript online...
Published: April 2015
Found in: Butch on Butch
Out in the carPark
Participants, stall-holders and the public talk about attending the Love Parade and Out in the carPark. 0:00:05 -...
Tags: bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, queer, takataapui...
Published: March 2015
Found in: Events
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