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Contents:
- HAVE A GAY DAY! THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF WELLGTON’S DORIAN SOCIETY
- GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND
- NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL
- 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN AOTEAROA
- JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
- TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
HAVE A GAY DAY! THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF WELLGTON’S DORIAN SOCIETY
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Sixty years ago, on 27 May 1962, a group of sixteen men met at a hoe on The Terrace central Wellgton to discs formg what would bee New Zealand’s first documented homosexual anisatn – the Dorian Society.
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At the time, homosexual activy was still an imprisonable offence and homosexualy self was fed by psychiatrists as a personaly disorr.
NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL
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Unrstandably, the mut of that first meetg of the Dorian didn’t clu any reference to homosexualy.
In 1964, Jack Goodw wrote to Monte Holcroft, the edor of the Listener, sayg the Dorian would help “homosexuals, particularly the young on, to adjt themselv to society so that they are ls of a risk to themselv or a sndal to others.
50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN AOTEAROA
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While was primarily a social group, the Dorian also tablished a legal sub-mtee to beg layg the groundwork for homosexual law reform – somethg that would eventually occur 1986. In a highly judgmental world which even the accatn of homosexualy uld e people to lose their job, fay and iends, the Dorian was a space which s members uld simply be themselv.
JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
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TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
Lbian and Gay Archiv of New Zealand Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa. New Zealand is socially a progrsive untry where lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs are not only tegrated but wele members of society.
We do warn you, however, the bar scene and muny is que small, so New Zealand is by no means a statn to go exclively for s gay scene. In 1999, she beme the world’s first transgenr member of Parliament Discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty/exprsn has been illegal sce 1993 LGB members have been allowed to serve the ary openly sce 1993 Openly gay and lbian policians have been servg sce 1993, wh Rabow Labour, a branch of the Labour Party, beg formed 1997 to reprent LGBTQ people.