Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
19 May - 10:54 pm NZ
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20 Years Out!
Supplementary Audio
- Insight - A Homosexual Speaks
Ian Fraser talking to 'Gary' about homosexuality Sound Archives T7116 (1970) [Radio New Zealand] (27′01″)
- The Gay Rights Movement - an interview with Mike Waghorne
LAGANZ 0209-A (LGRRC #18) (ca 1979) [recorder unknown, possibly Radio New Zealand] (19′25″)
- Fran Wilde introducing the Bill into Parliament
LAGANZ 0204-A (8 March 1985) [Parliamentary broadcast] (14′02″)
- Alison Laurie at the Bigot Busters rally
[Held in the Wellington Town Hall and attended by 1400 people]LAGANZ 0503-B (21 May 1985) [Public meeting, unknown recorder] (14′12″)
- Ideas for 10 July 2011 - Homosexual Law Reform
It's 25 years since homosexuality became legal in New Zealand. Ideas talks to former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde, whose private members' Homosexual Law Reform Bill finally changed the law in this country; Wellington counsellor and gay activist Bill Logan on the campaign for homosexual law reform and his life as an out gay man; and Phylesha Brown-Acton of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation about her work around the Pacific where homosexuality remains illegal in many countries. (52′01″)
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Public meeting (1985).
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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
