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• TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
• NEW ZEALAND LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGENEW ZEALAND HAS VOTED TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE, MAKG THEM THE FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC NATN TO DO SO.PARLIAMENT HAS VOTED TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE NEW ZEALAND, MAKG THE 13TH UNTRY TO ALLOW AND THE FIRST THE ASIA-PACIFIC.GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NEW ZEALAND.THE 77-44 VOTE PARLIAMENT ON WEDNDAY NIGHT WAS GREETED WH CHEERS AND APPLSE OM PACKED PUBLIC GALLERI AND KICKED OFF CELEBRATNS AROUND THE UNTRY.NEW ZEALAND IS THE 13TH UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE AND THE FIRST THE ASIA-PACIFIC.MORE THAN 1000 ATRALIAN SAME-SEX UPL SAY THEY WILL CROSS THE TASMAN TO TIE THE KNOT."NOW THAT MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY THREE HOURS AWAY THERE WILL BE A FLOOD OF UPL FLYG TO NEW ZEALAND," SAID ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY SPOKMAN RODNEY CROOME.NZ LABOUR'S GAY MP LOUISA WALL PROMOTED THE MARRIAGE (DEFN OF MARRIAGE) AMENDMENT BILL AND WAS PASSED ON NSCIENCE VOT, WH NO STCTNS OM PARTI.PRIME MISTER JOHN KEY WAS ONE OF THOSE SUPPORTG .MPS HAVE BEEN UNR TENSE PRSURE OM CHURCH AND MORAL NSERVATIVE LOBBY GROUPS DURG THE PAST FEW WEEKS BUT THE FAL VOTE WAS ALMOST INTIL TO THOSE ST DURG THE BILL'S PREV THREE STAG."EXCLUDG A GROUP SOCIETY OM MARRIAGE IS OPPRSIVE AND UNACCEPTABLE," MS WALL SAID WHEN SHE LNCHED THE THIRD READG BATE."THIS IS NOT ABOUT CHURCH TEACHGS OR PHILOSOPHY, NEVER WAS. THE PRCIPL OF JTICE AND EQUALY AREN'T SERVED IF THE KEY STUTN OF MARRIAGE IS RERVED FOR HETEROSEXUALS ONLY."THE GREEN PARTY'S GAY MP KEV HAGUE SAID HE HAD BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR NEARLY 29 YEARS."UNTIL THIS DAY A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT HAS BEEN NIED ," HE SAID."THE NSEQUENC OF THIS BILL WILL BE THAT SAME SEX UPL WILL MARRY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO DIVORCE, PREJUDICE AND VLENCE WILL BE UNRMED, THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE AND ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WILL BE ANY WORSE OFF."NATNAL'S MRICE WILLIAMSON, A STRONG SUPPORTER, SAID HE HAD BEEN APPALLED BY SOME OF THE LOBBYG."I HAD A LETTER SAYG I WAS GOG TO BURN THE FIR OF HELL, SOME OF THE BULLYG TACTICS WERE REALLY EVIL."NZ FIRST LEAR WSTON PETERS AGA LLED FOR A REFERENDUM."SOME SAY THERE IS A GROUNDSWELL FOR CHANGE, BUT HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?" HE SAID."NEW ZEALAND IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MOCRACY AND WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO DO IS CIRCUMVENT ANY EXPRSN OF PUBLIC OPN."MR PETERS AND HIS MPS VOTED AGAST THE BILL.NEARLY ALL THE MPS WHO SPOKE THE BATE SUPPORTED THE BILL.ONE WHO DIDN'T WAS NATNAL'S JONATHAN YOUNG."HISTORY HAS VTED SIGNIFINT TRADN MARRIAGE AND I BELIEVE WE SHOULD MATA THAT TRADN," HE SAID."THIS ISSUE ISN'T AS CLEAR AS SOME PEOPLE THK, MANY ARE STGGLG WH AND THE MUNY IS MORE DIVID THAN THIS PARLIAMENT."ALTHOUGH WEDNDAY NIGHT'S VOTE PUT THE BILL TO LAW, GAY UPL WHO WANT TO MARRY WILL HAVE TO WA A WHILE.THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS WHICH HANDL BIRTHS, ATHS AND MARRIAG HAS BEEN GIVEN FOUR MONTHS TO GET S ACT TOGETHER AND PREPARE THE PROCR AND LICENCE FORMS.MS WALL EXPECTS THERE WILL BE A SH."THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGT ULD WORK FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE," SHE TOLD NZ NEWSWIRE.GAY MARRIAGE ACROSS THE WORLDWH NEW ZEALAND BEG THE FIRST UNTRY THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGN TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HERE IS A BREAKDOWN OF NATNS WH SIAR LAWS ON THE BOOKS:- NETHERLANDS: ON APRIL 1, 2001 THE NETHERLANDS BEME THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WH THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS. INCLUS THE RIGHT TO ADOPTN.- BELGIUM: HOMOSEXUAL UPL BELGIUM HAVE ALMOST THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS. THEY WON THE RIGHT TO MARRY 2003 AND 2006 PARLIAMENT VOTED TO LAW A BILL ALLOWG HOMOSEXUAL UPL TO ADOPT CHILDREN.- SPAIN: IN 2005 SPA BEME THE THIRD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNN TO PASS A LAW ALLOWG SAME-SEX MARRIAG. GAY UPL N ADOPT CHILDREN, WHETHER THEY ARE MARRIED OR NOT.- CANADA: CANADA ADOPTED A NATNAL LAW ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY AND ADOPT JULY 2005 THOUGH MOST PROVC HAD ALREADY ALLOWED SAME-SEX UNNS BEFORE THAT DATE.- SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNTRY LEGALISED SAME-SEX UNNS AND ADOPTNS BY GAY UPL NOVEMBER 2006, BEG THE FIRST AIN NATN TO DO SO.- NORWAY: A 2009 LAW ALLOWED HOMOSEXUALS TO MARRY AND ADOPT CHILDREN. CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS HAVE EXISTED THE UNTRY FOR 20 YEARS.- SWEDEN: SWEN'S HOMOSEXUALS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO WED RELIG OR CIVIL CEREMONI SCE MAY 2009.- PORTUGAL: UNR A 2010 LAW PORTUGAL LEGALISED GAY MARRIAGE, WHILE EXCLUDG THE RIGHT TO ADOPTN.- ICELAND: PRIME MISTER JOHANNA SIGURDARDOTTIR MARRIED HER LONG-TIME PARTNER JUNE 2010 AS A NEW LAW LEGALISG HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG ME TO FORCE. SAME SEX UPL WHO HAVE LIVED TOGETHER FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS HAVE HAD THE RIGHT TO ADOPT CHILDREN SCE 2006.- ARGENTINA: GAYS ARGENTA BEME THE FIRST ON THE SOUTH AMERIN NTENT TO BE ABLE TO WED AND ADOPT, AFTER LEGISLATN PASSED ON JULY 14, 2010.- DENMARK: DENMARK, THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO ALLOW GAY UPL TO ENTER TO CIVIL UNNS 1989, VOTED OVERWHELMGLY FAVOUR OF ALLOWG HOMOSEXUALS TO MARRY THE STATE EVANGELIL LUTHERAN CHURCH JUNE 2012.- URUGUAY: UGUAY VOTED THIS MONTH TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAG NATNWI, MAKG ONLY THE SEND LAT AMERIN UNTRY TO DO SO.-- PARTIAL RULES --GAY UPL N MARRY NE US STAT, AS WELL AS THE PAL WASHGTON, WHILE PARTS OF MEXI AND BRAZIL ALSO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.-- EXPECTED SOON --- FRANCE: FRANCE'S UPPER HOE SENATE VOTED LAST WEEK TO APPROVE A LANDMARK BILL GRANTG HOMOSEXUAL UPL THE RIGHT TO MARRY AND ADOPT, PUTTG THE BILL ON TRACK TO BEE LAW WH WEEKS.- BRITAIN: BRISH LAWMAKERS VOTED FEBARY FAVOUR OF NTROVERSIAL LEGISLATN ALLOWG GAY MARRIAGE SPE FIERCE OPPOSN OM MEMBERS OF PRIME MISTER DAVID CAMERON'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY.THE BILL MT NEXT BE SCTISED BY A MTEE OF LAWMAKERS AND THEN GO BEFORE THE UPPER CHAMBER THE HOE OF LORDS BEFORE BEG LAW.-- CIVIL UNIONS --A NUMBER OF OTHER UNTRI HAVE ADOPTED LAWS THAT REGNISE CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS AND GIVE UPL MORE OR LS THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS.COUNTRI TO HAVE REGNISED CIVIL UNNS WHOUT YET ACCEPTG GAY MARRIAGE CLU GERMANY (2001), FLAND (2002), THE CZECH REPUBLIC (2006), SWZERLAND (2007) AND COLOMBIA AND IRELAND (BOTH 2011) SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 17 APRIL 2013 7:42PMUPDATED 27 FEBARY 2015 8:02PMSOURCE: AAPSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND

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 ZealandWhy you shouldn't e the sniff tt to check expired foodHow often have you found food the idge and given a big whiff for safety? But equaly has not been easy to most of the twentieth century, homosexualy was illegal New Zealand.

‘Comg out’ was credibly challengg for most gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people, and the risk of discrimatn was very the sixti and seventi, gay activists and groups like the Homosexual Law Reform Society beme more visible and vol llg for equal rights and acceptance, and many New Zealanrs joed them 1985, Fran Wil, a junr MP, sponsored the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. There was public opposn to the bill, cludg ralli and petns, but 1986, the bill was passed and homosexualy was crimalised.

NEW ZEALAND LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGENEW ZEALAND HAS VOTED TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE, MAKG THEM THE FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC NATN TO DO SO.PARLIAMENT HAS VOTED TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE NEW ZEALAND, MAKG THE 13TH UNTRY TO ALLOW AND THE FIRST THE ASIA-PACIFIC.GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NEW ZEALAND.THE 77-44 VOTE PARLIAMENT ON WEDNDAY NIGHT WAS GREETED WH CHEERS AND APPLSE OM PACKED PUBLIC GALLERI AND KICKED OFF CELEBRATNS AROUND THE UNTRY.NEW ZEALAND IS THE 13TH UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE AND THE FIRST THE ASIA-PACIFIC.MORE THAN 1000 ATRALIAN SAME-SEX UPL SAY THEY WILL CROSS THE TASMAN TO TIE THE KNOT."NOW THAT MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY THREE HOURS AWAY THERE WILL BE A FLOOD OF UPL FLYG TO NEW ZEALAND," SAID ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY SPOKMAN RODNEY CROOME.NZ LABOUR'S GAY MP LOUISA WALL PROMOTED THE MARRIAGE (DEFN OF MARRIAGE) AMENDMENT BILL AND WAS PASSED ON NSCIENCE VOT, WH NO STCTNS OM PARTI.PRIME MISTER JOHN KEY WAS ONE OF THOSE SUPPORTG .MPS HAVE BEEN UNR TENSE PRSURE OM CHURCH AND MORAL NSERVATIVE LOBBY GROUPS DURG THE PAST FEW WEEKS BUT THE FAL VOTE WAS ALMOST INTIL TO THOSE ST DURG THE BILL'S PREV THREE STAG."EXCLUDG A GROUP SOCIETY OM MARRIAGE IS OPPRSIVE AND UNACCEPTABLE," MS WALL SAID WHEN SHE LNCHED THE THIRD READG BATE."THIS IS NOT ABOUT CHURCH TEACHGS OR PHILOSOPHY, NEVER WAS. THE PRCIPL OF JTICE AND EQUALY AREN'T SERVED IF THE KEY STUTN OF MARRIAGE IS RERVED FOR HETEROSEXUALS ONLY."THE GREEN PARTY'S GAY MP KEV HAGUE SAID HE HAD BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR NEARLY 29 YEARS."UNTIL THIS DAY A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT HAS BEEN NIED ," HE SAID."THE NSEQUENC OF THIS BILL WILL BE THAT SAME SEX UPL WILL MARRY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO DIVORCE, PREJUDICE AND VLENCE WILL BE UNRMED, THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE AND ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WILL BE ANY WORSE OFF."NATNAL'S MRICE WILLIAMSON, A STRONG SUPPORTER, SAID HE HAD BEEN APPALLED BY SOME OF THE LOBBYG."I HAD A LETTER SAYG I WAS GOG TO BURN THE FIR OF HELL, SOME OF THE BULLYG TACTICS WERE REALLY EVIL."NZ FIRST LEAR WSTON PETERS AGA LLED FOR A REFERENDUM."SOME SAY THERE IS A GROUNDSWELL FOR CHANGE, BUT HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?" HE SAID."NEW ZEALAND IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MOCRACY AND WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO DO IS CIRCUMVENT ANY EXPRSN OF PUBLIC OPN."MR PETERS AND HIS MPS VOTED AGAST THE BILL.NEARLY ALL THE MPS WHO SPOKE THE BATE SUPPORTED THE BILL.ONE WHO DIDN'T WAS NATNAL'S JONATHAN YOUNG."HISTORY HAS VTED SIGNIFINT TRADN MARRIAGE AND I BELIEVE WE SHOULD MATA THAT TRADN," HE SAID."THIS ISSUE ISN'T AS CLEAR AS SOME PEOPLE THK, MANY ARE STGGLG WH AND THE MUNY IS MORE DIVID THAN THIS PARLIAMENT."ALTHOUGH WEDNDAY NIGHT'S VOTE PUT THE BILL TO LAW, GAY UPL WHO WANT TO MARRY WILL HAVE TO WA A WHILE.THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS WHICH HANDL BIRTHS, ATHS AND MARRIAG HAS BEEN GIVEN FOUR MONTHS TO GET S ACT TOGETHER AND PREPARE THE PROCR AND LICENCE FORMS.MS WALL EXPECTS THERE WILL BE A SH."THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGT ULD WORK FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE," SHE TOLD NZ NEWSWIRE.GAY MARRIAGE ACROSS THE WORLDWH NEW ZEALAND BEG THE FIRST UNTRY THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGN TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HERE IS A BREAKDOWN OF NATNS WH SIAR LAWS ON THE BOOKS:- NETHERLANDS: ON APRIL 1, 2001 THE NETHERLANDS BEME THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WH THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS. INCLUS THE RIGHT TO ADOPTN.- BELGIUM: HOMOSEXUAL UPL BELGIUM HAVE ALMOST THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS. THEY WON THE RIGHT TO MARRY 2003 AND 2006 PARLIAMENT VOTED TO LAW A BILL ALLOWG HOMOSEXUAL UPL TO ADOPT CHILDREN.- SPAIN: IN 2005 SPA BEME THE THIRD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNN TO PASS A LAW ALLOWG SAME-SEX MARRIAG. GAY UPL N ADOPT CHILDREN, WHETHER THEY ARE MARRIED OR NOT.- CANADA: CANADA ADOPTED A NATNAL LAW ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY AND ADOPT JULY 2005 THOUGH MOST PROVC HAD ALREADY ALLOWED SAME-SEX UNNS BEFORE THAT DATE.- SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNTRY LEGALISED SAME-SEX UNNS AND ADOPTNS BY GAY UPL NOVEMBER 2006, BEG THE FIRST AIN NATN TO DO SO.- NORWAY: A 2009 LAW ALLOWED HOMOSEXUALS TO MARRY AND ADOPT CHILDREN. CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS HAVE EXISTED THE UNTRY FOR 20 YEARS.- SWEDEN: SWEN'S HOMOSEXUALS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO WED RELIG OR CIVIL CEREMONI SCE MAY 2009.- PORTUGAL: UNR A 2010 LAW PORTUGAL LEGALISED GAY MARRIAGE, WHILE EXCLUDG THE RIGHT TO ADOPTN.- ICELAND: PRIME MISTER JOHANNA SIGURDARDOTTIR MARRIED HER LONG-TIME PARTNER JUNE 2010 AS A NEW LAW LEGALISG HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG ME TO FORCE. SAME SEX UPL WHO HAVE LIVED TOGETHER FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS HAVE HAD THE RIGHT TO ADOPT CHILDREN SCE 2006.- ARGENTINA: GAYS ARGENTA BEME THE FIRST ON THE SOUTH AMERIN NTENT TO BE ABLE TO WED AND ADOPT, AFTER LEGISLATN PASSED ON JULY 14, 2010.- DENMARK: DENMARK, THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO ALLOW GAY UPL TO ENTER TO CIVIL UNNS 1989, VOTED OVERWHELMGLY FAVOUR OF ALLOWG HOMOSEXUALS TO MARRY THE STATE EVANGELIL LUTHERAN CHURCH JUNE 2012.- URUGUAY: UGUAY VOTED THIS MONTH TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAG NATNWI, MAKG ONLY THE SEND LAT AMERIN UNTRY TO DO SO.-- PARTIAL RULES --GAY UPL N MARRY NE US STAT, AS WELL AS THE PAL WASHGTON, WHILE PARTS OF MEXI AND BRAZIL ALSO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.-- EXPECTED SOON --- FRANCE: FRANCE'S UPPER HOE SENATE VOTED LAST WEEK TO APPROVE A LANDMARK BILL GRANTG HOMOSEXUAL UPL THE RIGHT TO MARRY AND ADOPT, PUTTG THE BILL ON TRACK TO BEE LAW WH WEEKS.- BRITAIN: BRISH LAWMAKERS VOTED FEBARY FAVOUR OF NTROVERSIAL LEGISLATN ALLOWG GAY MARRIAGE SPE FIERCE OPPOSN OM MEMBERS OF PRIME MISTER DAVID CAMERON'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY.THE BILL MT NEXT BE SCTISED BY A MTEE OF LAWMAKERS AND THEN GO BEFORE THE UPPER CHAMBER THE HOE OF LORDS BEFORE BEG LAW.-- CIVIL UNIONS --A NUMBER OF OTHER UNTRI HAVE ADOPTED LAWS THAT REGNISE CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS AND GIVE UPL MORE OR LS THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUALS.COUNTRI TO HAVE REGNISED CIVIL UNNS WHOUT YET ACCEPTG GAY MARRIAGE CLU GERMANY (2001), FLAND (2002), THE CZECH REPUBLIC (2006), SWZERLAND (2007) AND COLOMBIA AND IRELAND (BOTH 2011) SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 17 APRIL 2013 7:42PMUPDATED 27 FEBARY 2015 8:02PMSOURCE: AAPSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

It was long overdue, but was the first step towards tly equal rights for 1993, the Human Rights Act ma discrimatn based on sexual orientatn illegal, and by the end of the twentieth century, New Zealanrs had voted openly gay policians, and the world’s first openly transgenr member of parliament, Gea the early 00s, we turned our attentn to marriage equaly. The Homosexual Law Reform BillTo brg about change the law, the gay movement need a parliamentary champn. She nsulted wh gay groups to velop a private member’s bill, the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, which she troduced to the Hoe of Reprentativ on 8 March bill had two parts.

Support and opposnGay and lbian groups had been assured that the mpaign would be short and nfed to Parliament. 'Natnal MP Norman Jon addrsg a public meetg 1985 LAGANZ 0080-B, Peter Nowland CollectnOpponents were supported by anisatns such as the Salvatn Army and by well-known overseas mpaigners agast homosexualy – the Reverend Lou Sheldon and John Swan particular. Their arguments often rted on moral and relig grounds: that homosexualy was 'unnatural' and that the Bible nmned people argued that the law would lead to more homosexualy and eventually to the llapse of the fay un.

Homosexualy and paedophilia – sex wh children – were sometim regard as the same of those opposed to the legislatn also raised the spectre of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). This illns uld be passed through the transfer of body fluids such as blood or through sexual ntact of any sort, homosexual or heterosexual. In the USA, AIDS maly affected gay men, so some people saw as a gay illns or even as dive punishment of s of AIDS had occurred New Zealand.

Health officials soon realised that the gay experts knew what they were talkg about, and the ernment cid to fund mpaigns by the New Zealand AIDS Foundatn. Be as gay and as lbian as you n all of the time.

'Bigot Bters rally at Wellgton Town Hall LAGANZ 0503-BGroups such as the New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Society, the Gay Task Force, Heterosexuals Unaaid of Gays (HUG), the Lbian Coaln and the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly tried to unter their opponents many ways. Victory – of sortsThe Homosexual Law Reform Bill took 16 months to move through the parliamentary procs.

Gays, lbians and their supporters partied; opponents predicted doom. For the first time New Zealand history, homosexual men uld enter to sexual relatnships whout fear of the law reformers, was only a partial victory.

Opponents argued that homosexualy was not a human rights issue and that discrimatn was acceptable. Not until the Human Rights Act was passed 1993 did beme illegal New Zealand to discrimate on the grounds of sexual legislative barriers for homosexuals have been removed.