Attitudes towards homosexuality have changed greatly in the last thirty years. You can explore this further with these extended audio features.
Ian Fraser talking to ‘Gary’ about homosexuality
Sound Archives T7116 (1970) [Radio New Zealand]
LAGANZ 0209-A (LGRRC #18)
(ca 1979) [recorder unknown, possibly Radio New Zealand]
LAGANZ 0204-A
(8 March 1985) [Parliamentary broadcast]
[Held in the Wellington Town Hall and attended by 1400 people]
LAGANZ 0503-B
(21 May 1985) [Public meeting, unknown recorder]

Public meeting (1985).

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.
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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