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20 Years Out!

Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand

20 Years Out! marks the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand. Using a rich combination of archival material and personal reflection, the documentary explores the passionate arguments for and against homosexual law reform.

The documentary has been split up into eight streaming audio segments which can be found in the index on the right hand side of each page.

Thanks

Sincere thanks must go to the group of volunteers at the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand who have enabled this documentary to be made, and to the many individuals who recorded and kept the majority of this material before depositing it with LAGANZ. Thanks also to David Hindley for the use of his images.

20 Years Out! was produced by Gareth Watkins.

Public meeting (1985).

Index

Introduction
An outline of this feature

Segment One
Setting the scene for Law Reform

Segment Two
Introduction of the Bill and A.I.D.S.

Segment Three
Positioning to the Petition

Segment Four
Speaking Up and Out

Segment Five
Actions

Segment Six
Talkback on the age-of-consent

Segment Seven
Part Two of the Bill - anti discrimination measures

Segment Eight
The Passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill

Extended audio features
Attitudes towards homosexuality have changed greatly in the last thirty years.

External Links

International Gay Rights timeline
Wikipedia.

Law Reform audio collection
Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand.

Out and about
NZ History website.

Material for this feature was primarily sourced from the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand, with additional material drawn from Sound Archives / Ngā Taonga Kōrero and other private collections.