Gay Datg New Zealand - AllMale

Contents:

• GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND
• GAY NEW ZEALAND
• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• STORY: GAY MEN’S LIV
• SEXUAL ERCN AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND
• GAY NEW ZEALAND · COUNTRY GUI
• COMG OUT NARRATIV OF OLR GAY MEN LIVG NEW ZEALAND

GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND

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. 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. But changg the legal stat of their behavr did not affirm, validate or protect lbigay cizens.

GAY NEW ZEALAND

and a prehensive rearch survey to anti-gay and anti-HIV attus and activi, the Human Rights Amendment Act was passed to law.

(photo left: Anti-discrimatn Billboard: “Your child may be gay. Sce then the lbigay muny of New Zealand has not looked back. In 2012 the cy cid to help fund a new Gay Pri Para to be mounted Febary 2013.

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.

HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

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. ) only a uple of streets om the Ponsonby gay district.

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. (Another remend gay owned B&B on the North Island is Rotoa: GuysersGayStay B&B). The ambience of the gay neighborhood is rmal and relaxed.

STORY: GAY MEN’S LIV

Many of the bs on Ponsonby and K Road are gay owned. ‘Exprs’ is New Zealand’s gay newspaper. 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.

SEXUAL ERCN AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND

If anythg is missg there, ’s sure to appear the other major gay webse, which also featur world news, entertament, civil unns, adoptn, as well as HIV health and preventn programs. Between the two s, there is ltle about New Zealand’s lbigay scene that is left unclaimed. As for gay men and lbian women workg together, there is general operatn but mostly they gather separate sub-muni.

GAY NEW ZEALAND · COUNTRY GUI

I’m not sure what gay means anymore, if means anythg, ” he cried wh a slightly jokg plat. Aubrey’s rollg thoughts snned many ncerns of today’s gay muny across the globe, om Atralia and Thailand to South Ai to London and across the USA.

What do gay’ mean now at the turn of a new century? What is a proper agenda: assiatn or queer distctn; -your-face erotic energy or subdued hetero-like hhed sexualy; is homosexual orientatn a proud inty or a meek label sendary to other cultural distctns such as reer or fay or fancial stat? Sce New Zealand lbigay cizens are no longer ncerned for their legislative safety and legal stat, as many wtern societi, the subsequent generatn of issu facg the larger global gay muny often turns to inty, appearance and exprsn as well as equaly of opportuny-issu that are more difficult to foc and agree on.

“There are of urse still small town rednecks who would rather harass gays than unrstand them. Eugene is a very-out human rourc nsultant who nfers wh rporatns, ernment agenci as well as the ary branch to te them about lbigay issu such as harassment, discrimatn, tolerance and workplace attus.

COMG OUT NARRATIV OF OLR GAY MEN LIVG NEW ZEALAND

He bated on TV wh a right wg Christian Coaln party lear who felt that “hangg was too good for gays”.

Eugene also agreed that the lbigay muny is operative and generally works together on major projects and issu. He felt there was much ls fear New Zealand wh the lbigay muny than the USA bee of the legal protectns and the virtual absence of homophobic vlence.

As an expat he also sensed a certa adolcent arrogance Amerin gay attus that do not prevail his adopted untry, an attu “that seems to e om a buff-gym-narcissism rerced by money”. Eugene’s take on the Amerin/New Zealand gay scene is sharpened by his beg an Amerin livg New Zealand wh his Cambodian-born lover of ten years.