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Contents:

• IT'S TE - PONSONBY REALLY IS NZ'S GAY PAL
• HAVOC AND NEWSBOY'S SELL-OUT TOUR - GAY MAN'S ROCK
• NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL
• HAVOC & NEWSBOYS' TRIP TO THE “GAY PAL OF NEW ZEALAND” ONE OF NZ'S MOST INIC TV MOMENTS
• WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?
• GAY NEW ZEALAND · COUNTRY GUI
• AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)

IT'S TE - PONSONBY REALLY IS NZ'S GAY PAL

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.

HAVOC AND NEWSBOY'S SELL-OUT TOUR - GAY MAN'S ROCK

Picture / Mart SykFolklore has bee fact a new survey fdg that one every eight gay New Zealand men liv wh about a half-hour walk of Auckland's Ponsonby Rd. "While the gay district ncept don't really e as a surprise, for the first time we are able to see the implitns of this for both rearch and service livery, " he said. The gay share of the populatn might be unr-timated if gay men are ls likely than other men to have steady partners, as suggted by a Massey Universy study that found 61 per cent of gay men had had more than one partner the prev year.

Mr Saxton and -thor Tony Hugh said the numbers disclosg same-sex partners to the cens were also rced by fear of the state "monorg" their homosexualy. In 1999, she beme the world’s first transgenr member of Parliament Discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty/exprsn has been illegal sce 1993 LGB members have been allowed to serve the ary openly sce 1993 Openly gay and lbian policians have been servg sce 1993, wh Rabow Labour, a branch of the Labour Party, beg formed 1997 to reprent LGBTQ people. © Unsplash The Gay Scene Auckland Offerg the most eclectic LGBTQ scene New Zealand, Auckland is a mt-go for gay and lbian travellers lookg to meet like-md people.

LGBTQ and Gay Bars Auckland The Eagle Bar, 259 Karangahape Road Good Tim Bar, 146 Karangahape Road Caluzzi Bar & Cabaret, 461 Karangahape Road Fay Bar & Club, 270 Karangahape Road For more about Auckland’s bars and clubs, see The Gui to Auckland Nightlife.

NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL

© The Gay Scene Wellgton New Zealand’s pal might have a small gay scene when to bars and clubs, but what lacks quanty mak up for qualy. While the cy centre has two exclive gay bars, venu like The Frge Bar (36-32 Allen Street) and Hawthorn Lounge (2/82 Tory Street) are popular LGBTQ hangouts rporatg edy and luxury.

LGBTQ and Gay Bars Wellgton Stty & Mal’s (S&M’s), 176 Cuba Street Ivy Bar & Cabaret, 49 Cuba Street For more about Wellgton’s bars and clubs, see The Gui to Wellgton Nightlife. Regardls, the South Island’s latt cy has plenty of gay-iendly bars and clubs wh a diverse vibe, cludg The Dirty Land (131 Victoria Street) and Boo Radley’s Food & Liquor (1/98 Victoria Street).

LGBTQ and Gay Bars Christchurch Cz, 77 Victoria Street © WellgtonNZ Pri Ftivals Of urse, a highlight of New Zealand’s even lendars is the LGBTQ ftivals. Auckland Pri Ftival – Febary Big Gay Out, Auckland – Febary Wellgton Internatnal Pri Para – late Febary to early March Wter Pri, Queenstown – late Augt to early September Christchurch Pri – November Haton Pri – September For more events, head over to New Zealand Events Calendar: What’s Gog On? 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!

HAVOC & NEWSBOYS' TRIP TO THE “GAY PAL OF NEW ZEALAND” ONE OF NZ'S MOST INIC TV MOMENTS

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.

WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?

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.

As a tstee of Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa/Lbian and Gay Archiv of New Zealand, he is passnate about prervg and sharg Aotearoa’s queer histori, nnectg queer kiwis to their past. Ci all have human histori, but the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred stori om the past often rema hidn – and Auckland is no exceptn, even today.

Drivg by the Ferry Buildgs on Quay Street, is impossible to know that this once was one of Auckland’s great gay cisg grounds the late 19th and early 20th Century, ed by gay men and male sex-workers alike, gatherg after the eveng muters had streamed through the turnstil to tch ferri to Devonport and the North Shore that pre-Harbour Bridge era.

GAY NEW ZEALAND · COUNTRY GUI

The activi of the early missnary William Yate wh Māori mal the 1820s and 30s Northland dite that same-sex relatns were not regard as an issue by Māori, and they were fully faiar wh homosexual acts before the arrival of Europeans.

AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)

Later, this photo was stolen om Auckland Mm, then eventually returned, and ntroversially ed on the ver of Peter Well’s 1997 anthology of New Zealand gay wrg, Bt Mat. Near-fotten homosexual wrer, Hector Bolho, his 1927 novel, Solemn Boy, rerd the nfns of a gay male enunter between two naked men on the black sand of a Wt Auckland beach: “We hadn’t the urage of gulls, swoopg down and liberately takg what we wanted.

The uple had often shared a bed at the Waemata Hotel Lower Queen Street, which appears to have been a place where gay men felt fortable, to judge by s appearance another trial which featured upstairs rooms, drkg, sgg and sexual ntact. Another man who rerd early gay life Auckland was the wrer Frank Sargon, who lived a bach on Esmon Road Takapuna om the 1930s until his ath 1982. He wrote a number of his famo short stori the 1930s and 40s Takapuna, cludg That Summer and A Great Day, where gay relatnships stir jt beneath the surface of male iendships, and sexualy epts strange and articulate ways.

Sargon’s rerdg of transient gay life, and an Auckland of roomg ho, trams and sun-stck streets his short-stori remas one of the most acplished achievements of New Zealand lerature. In unter distctn to the muffled gay liv, the reer of the stage performer, Freda Stark, giv a glterg glimpse to Auckland’s lbian and Bohemian life. It has been suggted that the troops troduced New Zealand gay men to the blow-job, somethg that had never prevly been a particular feature of gay sexual relatns New Zealand.