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20 Years Out! - Segment 1

Setting the scene for Law Reform (5′09″)

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]

Arsonist’s twinked message - FAG - Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource Centre (11 September 1986).

Arsonist’s twinked message - FAG - Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource Centre (11 September 1986).

Index

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.

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.

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