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Contents:
- TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
- NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- PAGE 2. GAY ACTIVISM AND LAW REFORM
TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
The homosexual law reform mpaign moved beyond the gay muny to wir issu of human rights and discrimatn. Extreme viewpots ensured a lengthy and passnate bate before the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed July 1986. * gay rights issues nz *
Sex between women was not illegal, but many lbians suffered the same social discrimatn as gay men and so were stnch supporters of mpaign to reform the law extend beyond the gay muny to wir issu of human rights and discrimatn. ’, a documentary broadst on Natnal Rad on 9 July 2006, the 20th anniversary of the fal vote of the prott and rally d was origally rerd for Accs Rad programm ma by the Gay Broadstg Collective and had not prevly been broadst natnally. 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.
NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN
NZ is set bee the 13th untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. Scroll through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of rights for gay people. * gay rights issues nz *
The bill passed wh 77 vot to through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of gay om New ZealandWhanganui tops tourism growth tabl two months a rowThe growth at a time when tourism is ually quieter the regn.
GAY RIGHTS
LGBT Rights New Zealand: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights issues nz *
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.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
50th anniversary of the birth of NZ's Gay Liberatn Front, Gareth Watks highlights April dat signifint to Aotearoa’s LGBTQ+ muny * gay rights issues nz *
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. ” In a prs release for the 2007 nference, Post Primary Teachers’ Associatn Print Rob Duff said that the PPTA had been workg on the issu sce the late 1980s, while 17-year-old Peter Hotere reunted how he had left school bee of homophobic harassment. 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.
PAGE 2. GAY ACTIVISM AND LAW REFORM
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” 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.
To brg about change the law, the gay movement need a parliamentary champn. It found one Labour MP Fran Wil. * gay rights issues nz *
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. 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).
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay rights issues nz *
The Ugandan Parliament passed the Sexual Offens Bill, further crimalizg same-sex sexual has remaed stnchly homophobic both terms of legislatn and the general sentiment of ernment officials.
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Acrdg to the Frankl & Marshall Global Barometer of Gay Rights, which measur how well untri protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people, Uganda sr 11%, meang the natn persecut people based on their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
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Consensual, same-sex relatns are illegal Uganda as a rult of lonial-age laws that still exist the untry, but that has not stopped polins om attemptg to further crimalize homosexualy.
” While the Anti-Homosexualy Act was eventually stck down 2014, vlence agast LGBTQ+ people Uganda surged due to the outspoken, homophobic remarks promoted by ernment, the Ugandan Parliament has once aga passed a bill that seeks to further crimalize homosexualy. — Sexual Mori Uganda | SMUG (@SMUG2004) May 5, 2021LGBTQ+ rights anizatns like Sexual Mori Uganda have highlighted the homophobic language and lled on the ternatnal muny to speak out agast the bill.