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Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS AUCKLAND
• GAY PARKS NEAR ME
• PLAC TO GAY CISE NEAR ME
• MELBOURNE GAY CISE CLUBS
• AUCKLAND GAY FRIENDLY
• GAY MELBOURNE
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS AUCKLAND

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

GAY PARKS NEAR ME

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The prted programme for this year's Auckland Pri Ftival clus a history of gay Auckland, wrten by David Herkt.

PLAC TO GAY CISE NEAR ME

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.

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. 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.

MELBOURNE GAY CISE CLUBS

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.

AUCKLAND GAY FRIENDLY

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. There was chewg-gum, bourbon and swg mic, but some soldiers were also gay.

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. Another group of gay men who changed the social life of Auckland, were the stewards who worked on passenger ships and shippg l. Generally homosexual men, shippg stewards provid ternatnal ntact and add a whole new element to New Zealand gay life –mpns.

The men even ed a whole gay language, Polari, which meant they uld talk timately whout beg unrstood by the wir world: “As feely would zhoosh our riah, powr our eeks, climb to our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar”.

GAY MELBOURNE

Polari words like ‘naff’, ‘nance’, ‘butch’, ‘drag’, ‘mce’ and ‘tra’ still survive general New Zealand gay age today.

A number of cy hotels of the 1950s and 60s had firm reputatns as gay venu. There was also the Shakpeare, on the rner of Wyndham and Albert Streets, where the upstairs bar was a waterg hole for both journalists and gay men.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

It was also an era of gay men meetg and havg sex public toilets, which were equently loted unrground, like those Wellley Street or Durham Street Wt. Gay Liberatn had s first meetgs at Auckland Universy 1972.

Led by Ngahuia Te Awekotu, Nigel Bmber, Dick Morrison and Mallm McAllister, this group mand repeal of the anti-homosexual laws and plete equaly for all New Zealanrs, no matter their sexual preference. Meetgs tablished a re-group and regular Gay Liberatn danc the Universy fé provid a new type of social teractn and reprented a new visibily. For the first time, the New Zealand televisn dience also began to see acknowledged homosexual, lbian and transgenred people current affairs programs, llg for law-change and an end to discrimatn.

This sense of eedom was rponsible for the creatn of Auckland’s biggt and most succsful gay club to that date.

Backstage n be glimpsed New Zealand’s first gay feature movie, Squeeze, directed by Richard Turner, which was partially filmed the club 1979.