List of New Zealand gay wrers - FamoFix List

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• NEW ZEALAND GAY WRERS

NEW ZEALAND GAY WRERS

Des of erasure and homophobia have renred some of our most powerful wrg visible. When I signed the Homosexual Law Reform petn more than thirty-five years ago, I never dreamed that one day I would be able to marry a woman if I chose, or that a publitn like this uld possibly exist.

Now s fourth edn (and adapted for TV 2010), Nights the Garns of Spa explor pots of nflict between sexualy and social mor, and wh ntemporary gay culture... 6 Peter Wells and Rex Pilgrim, edors: Bt Mat: Gay Wrg Aotearoa New Zealand (1997, Reed). This rich llectn of a century of gay wrg New Zealand clus work by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, John MacDonald, Jam Allen, Sir Toss Woolaston, Wi Ihimaera, Samuel Butler and Frank Sargon.

This outstandg llectn of thirty-five of the bt short stori om the 1999 Huia Short Story Awards for Maori wrers clus Anton Blank’s story ‘Queen’ about a young ral queer Maori man, super nfint himself, who leav his nurturg whan to experience the Auckland cy gay scene, the drag queens, and a life that is ‘fabulo’.

12 Chris Brickell: Mat and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (2008, Godw). Tragedy, vany and moral hypocrisy abound this based-on-a-te story novel about a famo gay sndal. Workmat, neighbours, garners, jewellers, prits and more: the immense diversy of the gay world is explored through documentary photography and oral histori.