Timele: Gay rights New Zealand - NZ Herald

Contents:

• NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN
• TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN AOTEAROA
• GAY LIBERATN: 50 YEARS OF RISTANCE AND RECLAMATN
• LEAFLET, 'MARCH FOR LBIAN & GAY RIGHTS'

NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN

Infuriated, she gave a rog speech to stunts at the Universy of Auckland, challengg them to be open about their homosexualy: “who out there is crazy enough to jo me – and let’s start gay liberatn!

TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND

Te Awekotu’s msage reverberated throughout the untry; her subsequent viss to Wellgton and Christchurch rultg gay liberatn groups immediately beg tablished by the universi both ci. Dpe such differenc between groups wh the broar movement, by 1977 the Natnal Gay Rights Coaln (NGRC) had formed, wh an alliance of 35 member groups and an affiliated membership of over 70, 000 dividuals.

[9] They phed for liberatn through a variety of protts and workshops; one NGRC pamphlet even advisg that activists should make a hab of phong to rad statns wh song requts that were obvly om one gay lover to another.

After 1986 pri ftivals and fairs flourished, kickg off wh Wellgton’s Gay and Lbian Fair and cludg Devotn, Pri, Freedom, Hero and Big Gay Out, not to mentn var smaller affairs throughout the untry. Found 2000 as part of the Hero ftival, Big Gay Out was taken over by the New Zealand AIDS Foundatn 2003 and ntu to be celebrated annually, raisg awarens for AIDS preventn Aotearoa. For more rmatn on queer Aotearoa New Zealand prr to 1969, check out the followg: Elizabeth Kerekere, ‘Part of The Whān: The Emergence of Takatāpui Inty – He Whāriki Takatāpui, ’ PhD This, Victoria Universy of Wellgton, 2017; Chris Brickell, Mat and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (Auckland: Random Hoe, 2008); Jsi Hutchgs and Clive Asp, eds., Sexualy and the Stori of Indigeno People (Wellgton: Huia, 2007); Alison J.

GAY RIGHTS

For more rmatn specifcially on the role of trans people the gay movement, see Will Hansen, ‘“Every Bloody Right To Be Here”: Trans Ristance Aotearoa New Zealand, 1967-1989, ’ Masters This, Victoria Universy of Wellgton, 2020. Danielle Street, ‘Queer activists vandalised a ‘gay’ ATM Auckland’, Vice, 24 Feb 2015; Aych McArdle and Ts McClure, ‘Auckland Pri Para and the hypocrisy of Big Corporate’, Vice, 23 Feb 2018; Maxe Jabs, ‘Pri Para: More sponsors pull their support’, RNZ, 21 Nov 2018; ‘Pri Para sponsors ‘blackmailg’ gay muny – Rākete’, RNZ, 23 Nov 2018.

As a tstee of Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa/Lbian and Gay Archiv of New Zealand, he is passnate about prervg and sharg Aotearoa’s queer histori, nnectg queer kiwis to their past.

” Prottg unr the Queen was signifint, as was through Brish lonisatn and the adoptn of the Brish legal system 1840 that homophobic laws were subsequently enacted New Zealand. While there had been earlier public meetgs to advote for homosexual law reform, the Gay Day event was one of the first ocsns when rabow activists took to the streets to mand liberatn. The se hosted pag for, among others, the New Zealand AIDS Foundatn, Body Posive, Aoraki Lbian & Gay Group (Tima), the Feratn of Gay Gam (New Zealand) and Wellgton Lbian Events.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

While MP Louisa Wall’s legislatn didn’t ga unanimo support (77 ay/44 no), was more accepted than the civil unn legislatn 2004 (65 ay/55 no), and the earlier homosexual law reform 1986 which only passed by four vot (49/44). By The Numbers63% of New Zealanrs support allowg same-sex upl to marry31% of New Zealanrs do not support allowg same-sex upl to marryHistoryHomosexual activy New Zealand? Current statSce Aug 8, 1986Legal Legalised wh the mencement of the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, troduced as a bill by former member of Parliament Fran marriage New Zealand?

Current statSce Feb 1, 1994Illegal some ntexts Unr sectn 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993, discrimatn agast "heterosexual, homosexual, lbian, or bisexual orientatns" is prohibed, wh no other sexual orientatns beg protected. However, protectns only apply to those of heterosexual, homosexual, lbian, or bisexual orientatns, and currently genr inty is ambiguoly regard as beg protected unr the ground of sex.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Labour Party MP Gea Beyer hugged by then Prime Mister Helen Clark after her main speech to Zealand has bee the 13th untry the world to legalise same-sex bated the biggt change to gay and transgenr rights sce homosexual law reform 25 years ago, wh a historic vote on the third readg of the Marriage Amendment Bill. The bill passed wh 77 vot to through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of gay om New ZealandWellgton’s Frank Kts Park playground upgra downsledOne optn unr nsiratn would return the wateront land to a piece of lawn.

The Gay Liberatn Front emerged to mand change laws and early 1972, Gay Liberatn groups sprang up Auckland, Wellgton and Christchurch after the amic Ngahuia Te Awekotu was nied a perm to vis the USA on the grounds that she was homosexual.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. (Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny.

50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN AOTEAROA

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

GAY LIBERATN: 50 YEARS OF RISTANCE AND RECLAMATN

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly.

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. In addn, 2019 Lori Lightfoot beme the first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Chigo, and two years later Pete Buttigieg beme the first openly gay bet member Amerin history.

LEAFLET, 'MARCH FOR LBIAN & GAY RIGHTS'

At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006). The issu emphasized by gay rights groups have varied sce the 1970s by time and place; different natnal anizatns have promoted polici specifilly tailored to their untry’s i.

Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.