New Zealand adults who intify as gay or lbian

Contents:

• NEW ZEALAND ADULTS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN
• SHARE OF POPULATN WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL NEW ZEALAND 2018/19 BY AGE
• GAY MEN’S LIV
• TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
• GAY NEW ZEALAND
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

NEW ZEALAND ADULTS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN

012345New Zealand adults who intify as gay or lbianBy genr and age group, year end June 2022, % of adults wh groupProvir: Mistry of Health15-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465-7475+Age groupMenWomen. This statistic picts the rults of a survey about the share of the populatn who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual New Zealand 2018/2019, by age group.

2012-2022, by generatnMoral stance towards gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2022Moral views on gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2001-2022U.

SHARE OF POPULATN WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL NEW ZEALAND 2018/19 BY AGE

Society was not always so open – until recently many aspects of gay life New Zealand were hidn, and the early 21st century some gay men still ncealed their sexualy. Still, most gay men nducted their sexual relatnships out of reach of the law, unls they approached an unwillg partner who subsequently laid a plat.

It was possible to assemble a social work of sympathetic folk – for stance, the homosexual wrer Jam Courage went mpg wh iends Peel Fort, Canterbury. The news media beme terted the new homosexual ‘sects’ and ‘circl’, reflectg the works’ creasg size and the growg visibily of bars equented by gay men: the Waemata Auckland, the Royal Oak Wellgton and the Brish Hotel Lyttelton. This was primarily a social group, but 1963 the society’s new legal submtee – the Wolfenn Associatn – argued that male homosexualy should be crimalised.

2 In the 1960s, also, the police creased their efforts to pursue homosexual offenc – cludg by entrapment of men havg sex public toilets.

GAY MEN’S LIV

Male same-sex activy was still illegal durg the 1970s, and a young Graham Unrhill – later a gay activist – watched a gay rights prott march Auckland wh some trepidatn: ‘A small, brave group of people dared to march down Queen Street loudly mandg “gay rights”.

TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

Meanwhile, the Uned Stat, the gay liberatn movement emerged after the Stonewall rts of gay and transgenred people New York Cy 1969.

GAY NEW ZEALAND

The lerature of the movement – which brought together gay male and lbian activism – was sexually explic and openly advoted a gay life; different thors promoted gay marriage, mun and non-monogamy. Venu where men uld have gay sex emerged durg the 1970s, succsors to the hotels and public baths appropriated for homoerotic earlier s.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

Author Peter Wells remembered how the arrival of HIV/AIDS created a public backlash towards the gay muny: ‘Every time you picked up the paper there was a new b of news about how you uld tch .

Although this applied to all forms of provotn, impacted on gay victims sce some killers had claimed their male victim proposned them sexually and ed them to lose ntrol, allowg them to be nvicted on the lser charge of manslghter. The annual Big Gay Out Auckland’s Coyle Park, wh performers, dancg, food stalls, and ocsnal handbag-throwg ntt, is one of the most high-profile gay social events. In the 21st century the larger ci had many anised leisure optns for their gay and lbian cizens, cludg film ftivals, sports teams, garng and trampg groups.

The social workg se Bro Onle was set up 2008 to provi a fom for takatāpui tāne (gay and bisexual Māori men) to teract wh others around the untry. The ter also transformed the ways gay men explored their inti, accsed rmatn, met one another and kept touch, New Zealand and overseas. In the 2010s there was no reliable timate of New Zealand’s gay, lbian and bisexual populatn – official statistics on sexual orientatn were not llected for privacy reasons.

Gay and lbian rearchers have lobbied for the cln of a sexual orientatn qutn the five-yearly cens, to ga more specific rmatn about gay New Zealanrs.

The most tailed survey of New Zealand’s gay, lbian and bisexual populatn was the 2004 Lavenr Islands project unrtaken by Massey Universy rearchers.