Gay men’s liv – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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• GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND
• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL GUI
• FREE GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND ONLE
• STORY: GAY MEN’S LIV
• GAY NEW ZEALAND
• NEW ZEALAND GAY TRAVEL
• START MEETG SGLE GAY MEN NEW ZEALAND

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Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay.

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”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about . “I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner.

There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple. When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy.

Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time. ”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri.

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Until 1986 gay sex was illegal, and gay men faced discrimatn and disapproval. In the early 21st century gay men were more visible, cludg gay male MPs powerful posns each of the ma polil parti.

However, gay men uld still face prejudice, and sometim even vlence. In ci too men met for sex and relatnships, and groups of gay men socialised together. In the early 21st century there were gay social events, and groups for gay profsnals, garners and sportspeople.

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Some church pecially weled gay people, and gay webs allowed men to fd rmatn and meet one another. Gay men and the law. Gay activists the 20th century fought to change this, and 1986 gay sex was crimalised.

In 1993 beme illegal to discrimate agast gay people, and 2005 civil unns were troduced, allowg same-sex upl to have legally regnised unns siar to marriage. Gay activism.

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From the late 1960s the gay liberatn movement fought agast prejudice and enuraged gays and lbians to ‘e out’ (be open about their sexualy). Gay men anised to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to support people wh HIV/AIDS.

Pacific Island gay men. However, some nservative Pacific church opposed homosexualy. The Love Life Fono is a nference for gay and transgenr Pacific people.

Gay youth. Some schools have gay support groups, makg easier for young gay men to e out.

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But gay youth n also face harassment and bullyg at school. Is New Zealand a Gay-Friendly Country? New Zealand is socially a progrsive untry where lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs are not only tegrated but wele members of society.

We do warn you, however, the bar scene and muny is que small, so New Zealand is by no means a statn to go exclively for s gay scene. 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.