Gay Datg New Zealand - AllMale

Contents:

• GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND
• GAY MEN’S LIV
• THE BEST AUCKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AUCKLAND
• NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL
• EXPLORG TALK ABOUT SEXUALY AND LIVG GAY SOCIAL LIV AMONG CHE AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
• AUCKLAND GAY MAP

GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND

In the early 21st century some muny lears and media personali – cludg Members of Parliament – were openly gay men. Society was not always so open – until recently many aspects of gay life New Zealand were hidn, and the early 21st century some gay men still ncealed their sexualy. In spe of their relative visibily, many gay men have ma important social and cultural ntributns over the years.

GAY MEN’S LIV

Some scholars argue that early Māori rvgs pictg homosexualy suggt that same-sex relatnships may have been accepted. Gay rvgs. Still, most gay men nducted their sexual relatnships out of reach of the law, unls they approached an unwillg partner who subsequently laid a plat.

It was possible to assemble a social work of sympathetic folk – for stance, the homosexual wrer Jam Courage went mpg wh iends Peel Fort, Canterbury. Frankly gay.

THE BEST AUCKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AUCKLAND

After the Send World War some exclively homosexual social circl veloped the ma ci.

Many men spent their weekends the pany of their homosexual peers. The news media beme terted the new homosexual ‘sects’ and ‘circl’, reflectg the works’ creasg size and the growg visibily of bars equented by gay men: the Waemata Auckland, the Royal Oak Wellgton and the Brish Hotel Lyttelton. Many young Māori men joed the gay urban cultur.

Gay activism and law reform. In the late 1950s the first polil stirrgs to end discrimatn agast homosexuals began. In 1958 a Brish publisher released A way of love, Jam Courage’s explicly gay-themed novel.

NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL

Gay Wellgton men tablished the Dorian Society 1962. This was primarily a social group, but 1963 the society’s new legal submtee – the Wolfenn Associatn – argued that male homosexualy should be crimalised. 2 In the 1960s, also, the police creased their efforts to pursue homosexual offenc – cludg by entrapment of men havg sex public toilets.

Male same-sex activy was still illegal durg the 1970s, and a young Graham Unrhill – later a gay activist – watched a gay rights prott march Auckland wh some trepidatn: ‘A small, brave group of people dared to march down Queen Street loudly mandg “gay rights”.

Gay liberatn. The 1967 crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra re-energised New Zealand reformers. Meanwhile, the Uned Stat, the gay liberatn movement emerged after the Stonewall rts of gay and transgenred people New York Cy 1969.

EXPLORG TALK ABOUT SEXUALY AND LIVG GAY SOCIAL LIV AMONG CHE AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Drawg spiratn om US black civil rights and femist activism, the gay liberatn movement sought new eedoms for gay men and lbians. Acrdg to this approach, homophobia (dislike of homosexualy) and social thorarianism were the problem, and ‘g out’ was a solutn.

AUCKLAND GAY MAP

To tell others about one’s sexualy was to mystify homosexualy and pe om the stiflg nf of ‘the closet’.

The lerature of the movement – which brought together gay male and lbian activism – was sexually explic and openly advoted a gay life; different thors promoted gay marriage, mun and non-monogamy. Venu where men uld have gay sex emerged durg the 1970s, succsors to the hotels and public baths appropriated for homoerotic earlier s.