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• GAY MAN REFLECTS ON 'SRY' LIFE BEFORE NEW ZEALAND'S HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM
• LGBTQ AUCKLANRS STAGE PROTT OUTSI GAY BARS FAY AND G.A.Y, ACCE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPHOBIC BEHAVUR
• GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND
• GAY NEW ZEALAND

GAY MAN REFLECTS ON 'SRY' LIFE BEFORE NEW ZEALAND'S HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM

TransGeneratns episo three: GemmahGemmah (she/her) is a trans advote wh the jtice system and has formed a kapa haka group that performed this year at the Big Gay Out. Friday marks 35 years sce the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was passed New Zealand.

Former Gay Task Force member Bill Logan, who was part of the ph to legalise , says life as a gay person before the reform was "pretty sry" given you uldn't expect to have a public life or get many secure jobs. "On the whole, gay people had to hi and they were send-class cizens, even their fai ually.

LGBTQ AUCKLANRS STAGE PROTT OUTSI GAY BARS FAY AND G.A.Y, ACCE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPHOBIC BEHAVUR

As the reform mpaign began, verage newspapers and on televisn helped change the mds of New Zealanrs, but so did the many people who me out as gay.

"Early on the mpaign, people would say, 'well 's not such a big problem, I don't know anyone who's gay, there's no one my fay who's gay', " Logan says. "And of urse by the end of the mpaign, everyone knew that there was at least a , most people knew they had a workmate who was gay.

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"They were aaid to associate wh gay men bee they thought they might get AIDS through associatg wh them. "You're not gog to be able to have gay men discs what they need to discs to prevent the spread of AIDS wh their doctors, wh health profsnal workers unls they n be open about their sexual practic.

Gay, lbian and bisexual Kiwis are more than twice as likely to suffer "timate partner vlence and/or sexual vlence durg their liv", the survey found. While 30 percent of Kiwi adults report experiencg crime each year, that figure ris to 41 percent for gay and lbian adults and 47 percent for bisexuals. Gay, lbian and bisexual Kiwis are more than twice as likely to suffer "timate partner vlence and/or sexual vlence durg their liv", the survey found - more than two-thirds of bisexuals, and more than half of lbians and gay men, pared to 29 percent across the entire populatn.

For the gay and lbian groups, 's 23 percent. "What we've been able to do for the first time is be the rults over two years which has given a sample size large enough to dig to the mory muni - such as the lbian, gay and bisexual muni, those wh psychologil distrs and young adults.

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Some of Tāmaki Makr-Auckland's queer muny have staged a prott outsi two of the cy's bt-known gay bars.

"As far as we are ncerned, we bought the place for everybody, all the gay muny and nothg has changed.

There's no gayborhood per se, but you'll fd the most mixed venu along Courtenay Place and Cuba Street the hip Te Aro district at the cy center.

New Zealand tied for 10th on the 2020 Spartac Gay Travel Inx, which monors the safety of LGBTQ+ people every untry.

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