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

Poutokomanawa interviews

Interviews with people at the opening of the exhibition Poutokomanawa: The Carmen Rupe Generation. The exhibition runs...

Tags: 2010s, artist, arts, trans, transexual, transgender...

Published: September 2019

Found in: Poutokomanawa exhibition

Poutokomanawa opening night

Audio from the opening night of Poutokomanawa: The Carmen Rupe Generation. The exhibition runs from 20 September...

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, takataapui, trans, transexual, transgender...

Published: September 2019

Found in: Poutokomanawa exhibition

Rainbow taonga at Te Papa (2019)

Curator Stephanie Gibson talks about rainbow taonga held in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa...

Tags: 1990s, fa'afafine, intersex, non-binary, takataapui, transgender...

Published: August 2019

Found in: Groups and Organisations

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

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/aids, homosexual...

Published: May 2018

Found in: HIV/AIDS

Tiwhanawhana celebrates Matariki

Tiwhanawhana Celebrates Matariki Audio from the Tiwhanawhana Celebrates Matariki event held at the National Library of New Zealand...

Tags: 2010s, colonialism, colonisation, femininity, takataapui, transgender...

Published: July 2017

Found in: Events

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

John Jakeman - hairdressing

John Jakeman talks about his career as a hairdresser - in Wellington, London and Europe, from the 1960s...

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abdication, gay...

Published: May 2017

Found in: John Jakeman

Chechnya Vigil

Audio from the Chechnya Vigil held outside the Russian embassy in Wellington. The candlelight vigil was organised to...

Tags: 2010s, abuse, bisexual, gay, non-binary, queer...

Published: April 2017

Found in: Events

Youth Voices (2016)

Members of a youth diversity group talk about their lives and college life in 2016...

Tags: asexual, bisexual, gay, omnisexual, pansexual, polysexual...

Published: October 2016

Found in: Issues

Archives New Zealand

Donal Raethel, a senior archivist at Archives New Zealand, talks about some of the "wonderous treasures" held in...

Tags: gay, homosexual, lesbian, trans, transexual, transgender...

Published: October 2016

Found in: Groups and Organisations

LGRRC and LAGANZ

On the 30th anniversary of the arson attack (11 September 1986) on the Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource...

Tags: bisexual, fa'afafine, gay, intersex, lesbian, queer...

Published: September 2016

Found in: Groups and Organisations

Remembering Jonathan Dennis

Emma Jean Kelly talks about researching and writing her PhD on Jonathan Dennis - the founding director of...

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, gay, queer...

Published: April 2016

Found in: People

Remembering Neil Costelloe

Jayne Costelloe remembers her brother Neil Costelloe who was very active in the fight for homosexual law reform in the 1980s.

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, activism, anger, gay, lesbian...

Published: April 2016

Found in: Homosexual Law Reform

Paddling Your Own Waka

Audio from the session: Paddling Your Own Waka. In a world of the internet, global publishing companies no...

Tags: 1990s, 2000s, gay, homosexual, lesbian, queer...

Published: February 2016

Found in: Same Same But Different (2016)

Roy Ayling and Norman Gibson

Miriam Saphira talks about her father Norman and his relationship with Roy. The two men met as soldiers during WW1 and formed a very close bond - was it homosexual, homosocial or something else?

Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, homosexual, lesbian...

Published: February 2016

Found in: People

Photospace Gallery

Photospace Gallery has exhibited a number of rainbow artists including photographers Mark Beehre and Jac Lynch. In 2015...

Tags: 2010s, arts, butch, butch femme, femme, video online...

Published: January 2016

Found in: Wellington waterfront

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

Julie Glamuzina

Julie talks about documenting lesbian political activity pre-homosexual law reform, her involvement in various movements in the 1970s...

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, lesbian, queer, transgender...

Published: October 2015

Found in: Homosexual Law Reform

Bill Logan

Bill talks about being part of various groups that rallied in support of homosexual law reform. A selection...

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, activism, gay, homosexual, lesbian...

Published: June 2015

Found in: Homosexual Law Reform

Jac Lynch

Photographer Jac Lynch talks about the Butch on Butch photographic project...

Tags: 2010s, arts, butch, femme, lesbian, wahine toa...

Published: May 2015

Found in: Butch on Butch

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

Found in: People

Sara

Sara talks about politics, activism and newly completed research looking at heterosexism in tertiary student accommodation...

Tags: 1980s, 2010s, butch, femme, queer, transcript online...

Published: March 2015

Found in: Butch on Butch

George

George talks about being part of the Butch on Butch exhibition, wanting to be part of a conversation...

Tags: 2010s, bathrooms, butch, femme, queer, transcript online...

Published: February 2015

Found in: Butch on Butch

Stevei

Stevei talks about identifying as wāhine toa, representing New Zealand in softball and creating art...

Tags: butch, fa'afafine, gay, lesbian, takataapui, transcript online...

Published: February 2015

Found in: Butch on Butch

Zac

Zac talks about identifying as non-binary gender...

Tags: bullying, children, christianity, coming out, community, depression...

Published: May 2014

Found in: South

Steve McVey

Steve talks about his photography and latest project Lost...

Tags: arts, boarding school, bullying, coming out, creativity, diversity...

Published: March 2014

Found in: People

Meg Torwl

Meg Torwl, a multidisciplinary artist, talks about her life and creative process. You can view some of Meg's...

Tags: abuse, ageing, ageism, arts, civil rights, colonisation...

Published: March 2013

Found in: People

Rally photographs

Images from the Rally for Marriage Equality - 29 August 2012

Tags: 2010s, activism, civil unions, images online, marriage, marriage equality...

Published: August 2012

Found in: Marriage Equality

QWU documentary

A documentary that follows participants in the last Queen of the Whole Universe beauty pageant. More interviews with...

Tags: arts, auckland, drag, performance, photography, theatre...

Published: July 2012

Found in: Documentary

Daniel Nicoletta

Daniel talks about his photographic career, the Castro in the 1970's and his time with Harvey Milk and...

Tags: 1970s, 2010s, activism, archives, arts, gay...

Published: June 2012

Found in: People

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/aids...

Published: June 2012

Found in: People

Brian Andrews and Matthew Hunt

Brian Andrews talks about photographing the Queen of the Whole Universe and Matthew Hunt talks about performing in...

Tags: arts, auckland, drag, performance, photography, theatre...

Published: May 2012

Found in: Queen of the Whole Universe

Thats So Gay

Grizz talks to the cast and crew of Thats So Gay about how the production was devised and performed

Tags: 2010s, arts, coming out, education, growing up, images online...

Published: April 2012

Found in: Arts and Media

Mark Beehre

Tags: 2010s, arts, gay, history, images online, interviewing...

Published: April 2012

Found in: Gallery

Mark Beehre

Mark talks about documenting gay mens lives through photography and audio interviews. In this recording we look...

Tags: arts, history, interviewing, legacy, oral history, photography...

Published: April 2012

Found in: Creating Our Stories

Shane

Shane talks about being young and gay in 2012...

Tags: abuse, coming out, domestic violence, friends, homophobia, makeup...

Published: March 2012

Found in: Q12 The Tour

Portraits

Tags: images online, photography, queen of the whole universe...

Published: January 2012

Found in: Queen of the Whole Universe

David Hindley

David Hindley 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

Maree Turner

Tags: arts, images online, maree turner, photography, visual arts...

Published: 2011

Found in: Gallery

Stefanie Upchurch

Stefanie Upchurch describes how the Out Proud portrait series came about and what it was like to photograph openly queer people

Tags: 2010s, arts, bisexual, gay, images online, lesbian...

Published: 2011

Found in: Gallery

Robert Gant

John Sullivan talks about the photography of Robert Gant.

Tags: arts, images online, photography, visual arts, wairarapa, wellington...

Published: November 2010

Found in: Gallery

Gareth Watkins

Tags: 1990s, arts, images online, photography, visual arts, wellington...

Published: 2010

Found in: Gallery

Hugo Gong

Tags: 2000s, arts, images online, photography, visual arts, wellington...

Published: 2010

Found in: Gallery

Meg Torwl

A gallery of images by photographer Meg Torwl

Tags: 1990s, arts, canada, images online, photography, visual arts...

Published: 2010

Found in: Gallery

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

Found in: People

Do You Like What You See?

A couple of gay photographers talk about their work...

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, archives, arson, failure, gay...

Published: 1997

Found in: Arts and Media