Dramas pictg male same-sex relatnships have bee a pop culture sensatn Thailand. Acrdg to one expert, they're also triggerg fundamental chang a society where gay people n stggle to fd acceptance.
Contents:
- GAY NEW ZEALAND
- NEW ZEALAND’S MāORI TRIB CELEBRATE THEIR GAY CHILDREN
- MR GAY NZ MāORI NTTANTS WANT MORE LGBTI SUPPORT
- STORY: GAY MEN’S LIV
GAY NEW ZEALAND
Among the populatn are age-old Maori tribal ways, nservative Brish tradnalists and a lorful, out-proud Lbigay muny * gay maori men *
The most well-documented example is the Reverend William Yate, an English missnary, who lived wh his male pann for two years the Māori village of Waimate, before beg expelled to England for homosexual behavur. The term, ed by Tūtānekai to refer to his relatnship wh Tiki, has been reclaimed om the past and is ed to scribe people who might otherwise scribe themselv as gay, lbian, transgenr, bisexual or tersexual. A televisn show, Takatāpui, first shown on Māori Televisn 2004, was probably the first digeno gay, lbian and transgenr televisn seri the world.
In 2010 an exhibn nsistg of five gay Māori and Polynian artists, ‘Mana Takatāpui: Taera Tāne’, was shown at the Cy Gallery Wellgton.
NEW ZEALAND’S MāORI TRIB CELEBRATE THEIR GAY CHILDREN
* gay maori men *
Among the populatn another sort of diversy exists: age-old Maori tribal ways, nservative Brish tradnalists and a lorful, out-proud Lbigay muny savorg their ferally legislative rights. Thirty years ago New Zealand was a natn of leftover stuffy Victorian attus toward human sexualy and a nse homophobic mdset about lbigay love and life.
MR GAY NZ MāORI NTTANTS WANT MORE LGBTI SUPPORT
Then me AIDS, acpanied by a strengthened Stonewall mentaly pl several anti-gay misrriag of jtice that allowed gay bashers/murrers to pe punishment. Dpe a storm of fundamentalist relig bigotry, MP Fran Wil, supported by a voted re of natnal gayadvot, led the charge agast ignorance and discrimatn for 16 arduo months as she phed, joled and persuad legislators to vote for her landmark legislatn which proposed to crimalize nsentg homosexual over the age of 16. On Augt 8, 1986, the Homosexual Law Reform Act beme law and New Zealand stepped to the morn age.
and a prehensive rearch survey to anti-gay and anti-HIV attus and activi, the Human Rights Amendment Act was passed to law.
STORY: GAY MEN’S LIV
Wh a harbor of whe sails, also the gay pal of Aotearoa, the native Maori name before the Europeans arrived wh their tradg ships and firearms the neteenth century. Wh two hours of landg Auckland we were treated to generosy om a Sgaporean woman at the Swiss bakery, a urty om r drivers as we entered cross walks, and a iendls om virtually each person we enuntered: the rental r agent, our gay B&B hosts and the sexy cyber assistant at the Brazil fe on K’ road. I’m not sure if ’s still gay-owned but was a lovely old Victorian mansn done up as a B&B and lovgly fsed over by s owners.
Over a cup of brew and a cholate croissant they talked about Ponsonby’s renaissance as a gay mec over the past twenty years. A lot of money has flowed to the neighborhood, to numero gay bs venue and to many of the now-prim ho wh ltle ont garns. One glance through s onle pag ptur the by and tense gay scene here: polil issu, gay bs ads, sports activi, full page bar/sna/dis ads, lendar of events/venu, acmodatns, lerary reviews, personals, and gay Maori news.