NZ’s Queer History: 50 Years of Gay Liberatn - exprs Magaze

Contents:

• TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND

Public OpnRecent surveys New Zealand have revealed a mixed rponse towards LGBTQ+ rights and Zealand Surveys of New Zealanrs support allowg same-sex upl to marry of New Zealanrs do not support allowg same-sex upl to marryHistoryHomosexual activy New Zealand?

Current statSce Aug 8, 1986Legal Legalised wh the mencement of the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, troduced as a bill by former member of Parliament Fran marriage New Zealand? 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

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. Current statSce Aug 8, 1986Equal Equal age of nsent sce homosexual (male-and-male) activy was legalised wh the mencement of the Homosexual Law Reform Act on 8 Augt 1986. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty.

LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.

2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005. Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years.

NZ’S QUEER HISTORY: 50 YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN

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. His bill – not passed to law – followed the Brish mol, wh a proposed age of nsent of 21 (later rced to 20) age of nsent was a major issue for the gay movement. 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.

The bill passed wh 77 vot to through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of gay om New ZealandCrown's closg statement Lren Dickason trialThe 42-year-old adms killg her three dghters Liané, 6, and 2-year-old tws Maya and Karla, but ni was murr and has plead not guilty by reason of sany or fantici.

Equaly InxHomosexualyGay MarriageChangg GenrCensorshipNon-bary genr regnnAdoptnMilaryDiscrimatnEmployment DiscrimatnHog DiscrimatnDonatg BloodAge of ConsentConversn Therapy. Wellgton Central MP Fran Wil’s private member’s bill, which removed crimal sanctns agast nsensual male homosexual practic, was passed by 49 vot to 44. Lord Cobham, the ernor-general, turned down an vatn to bee patron of the Wolfenn Associatn (later the New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Society).

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Infuriated, she gave a rog speech to stunts at the Universy of Auckland, challengg them to be open about their homosexualy: “who out there is crazy enough to jo me – and let’s start gay liberatn!

Te Awekotu’s msage reverberated throughout the untry; her subsequent viss to Wellgton and Christchurch rultg gay liberatn groups immediately beg tablished by the universi both ci. Dpe such differenc between groups wh the broar movement, by 1977 the Natnal Gay Rights Coaln (NGRC) had formed, wh an alliance of 35 member groups and an affiliated membership of over 70, 000 dividuals. [9] They phed for liberatn through a variety of protts and workshops; one NGRC pamphlet even advisg that activists should make a hab of phong to rad statns wh song requts that were obvly om one gay lover to another.

Gay anisatns were however dogged by sexism, racism, transphobia, and classism var ways, and this has meant that many groups were margalised om the mastream movement.

After 1986 pri ftivals and fairs flourished, kickg off wh Wellgton’s Gay and Lbian Fair and cludg Devotn, Pri, Freedom, Hero and Big Gay Out, not to mentn var smaller affairs throughout the untry.

Found 2000 as part of the Hero ftival, Big Gay Out was taken over by the New Zealand AIDS Foundatn 2003 and ntu to be celebrated annually, raisg awarens for AIDS preventn Aotearoa. For more rmatn on queer Aotearoa New Zealand prr to 1969, check out the followg: Elizabeth Kerekere, ‘Part of The Whān: The Emergence of Takatāpui Inty – He Whāriki Takatāpui, ’ PhD This, Victoria Universy of Wellgton, 2017; Chris Brickell, Mat and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (Auckland: Random Hoe, 2008); Jsi Hutchgs and Clive Asp, eds., Sexualy and the Stori of Indigeno People (Wellgton: Huia, 2007); Alison J.

For more rmatn specifcially on the role of trans people the gay movement, see Will Hansen, ‘“Every Bloody Right To Be Here”: Trans Ristance Aotearoa New Zealand, 1967-1989, ’ Masters This, Victoria Universy of Wellgton, 2020. Danielle Street, ‘Queer activists vandalised a ‘gay’ ATM Auckland’, Vice, 24 Feb 2015; Aych McArdle and Ts McClure, ‘Auckland Pri Para and the hypocrisy of Big Corporate’, Vice, 23 Feb 2018; Maxe Jabs, ‘Pri Para: More sponsors pull their support’, RNZ, 21 Nov 2018; ‘Pri Para sponsors ‘blackmailg’ gay muny – Rākete’, RNZ, 23 Nov 2018.