20 Years Out!
Part 1 - Setting the Scene for Law Reform
- Part 1 - 20 Years Out
Setting the scene for Law Reform (5′09″)
Arsonist’s twinked message - FAG - Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource Centre (11 September 1986).
Credits
What we are discussing here – [unidentified speaker] (25″)
LAGANZ 0209-A (LGRRC #28)
Audio from delegates at the Young Nationals Conference
Insight 84 – Homosexual Law Reform
(1984) [Radio New Zealand]
Go back into the sewers – Norman Jones (1′02″)
LAGANZ 0080-B
Addressing a public meeting
(1985) [Peter Nowland Collection]
Let's try to understand what it’s like – Brian Scott Show (17″)
LAGANZ 0176-AB
Brian Scott Show – 2ZB Wellington, Gay Pride Week
(1976) [Radio New Zealand]
Seeking treatment - Ian Fraser talking to "Gary" (45″)
Sound Archives T7116
Insight 70 – A Homosexual Speaks
(1970) [Radio New Zealand]
Are they normal people – [unidentified speaker] (22″)
LAGANZ 0209-A (LGRRC #28)
Audio from delegates at the Young Nationals Conference
Insight 84 – Homosexual Law Reform
(1984) [Radio New Zealand]
What kind of society would you like to see – Chris Piesse (1′19″)
LAGANZ 0167-AB
Interview with Chris Piesse, President of the Auckland University Gay Liberation, for Gay Pride Week
(1978) [Radio Hauraki]
The Gay Rights Movement is a radical political movement – Mike Waghorne (1′28″)
LAGANZ 0209-A (LGRRC #18)
(ca 1979) [recorder unknown, possibly Radio New Zealand]
Information
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 left 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.
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.
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20 Years Out!
Audio Library
There are 13 audio items in the programme library
- Part 1 - Setting the Scene for Law Reform
- Part 2 - Introduction of the Bill and A.I.D.S.
- Part 3 - Positioning to the Petition
- Part 4 - Speaking Up and Out
- Part 5 - Actions
- Part 6 - Talkback on the Age-of-Consent
- Part 7 - Part two of the Bill: Anti Discrimination Measures
- Part 8 - The Passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
- Supplementary Audio
- Programme Library
