The Missing Pages Project is an online volunteer project that aims to ensure that significant LGBTQIA+ Rainbow people, events, organisations, and legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand are properly documented and made freely available on Wikipedia.
The project highlights both notable and notorious individuals, campaigns, and moments in our history that are under-represented or missing entirely from Wikipedia. We invite volunteers to help by creating new articles or improving existing ones using reliable, citable sources.
Participation is open to everyone. You simply need to login or create a free Wikipedia account and contribute what you can — whether that’s drafting a new article, adding references, or expanding existing content. Together, we can help make our histories visible, verifiable, and accessible to the world.
To find out more about how Wikipedia works and how to get started as an contributor listen to this interview with Victoria Leachman, President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
In 2026, we mark the 40th anniversary of homosexual law reform in New Zealand. To coincide with this milestone, we suggest focusing on key individuals, organisations, events, and legislation connected to law reform and earlier queer struggles.
The lists below are not exhaustive, and we are always adding new names. Please get in contact if you think a name should be added. Also note that the word(s) in brackets following a name act as a research signpost, giving a general indication of role or involvement only. Many individuals held multiple roles.
Focus for 2026
Note: before creating a new article on Wikipedia, you need to do a notability assessment to see if a new article should be created, or if the information could be added to an existing article, for example LGBTQ people in New Zealand. We think that many of the names listed above will pass the notability assessment for new articles.
To assist with articles about Members of Parliament, the full Parliamentary debates on homosexual law reform are available here
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