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20 Years Out! - Segment Three

Positioning to the Petition (7′07″)

The moral landslide has to stop – Barry Reed (48″)
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Insight 85- The Moral Majority
(16 September 1985) [Radio New Zealand]

I believe that you are here to stand for decency – Graeme Lee (38″)
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Coalition Against Homosexual Law Reform public meeting, Auckland Town Hall
(19 April 1985) [Graham Underhill collection]

As citizens of this country we demand our rights – [unidentified speaker] (1′19″)
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Rally/Meeting audio
(ca 1985) [Peter Nowland collection]

Salvation Army confrontation .. If you’ve ripped up a petition (46″)
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Demonstration audio
(ca 1985) [Peter Nowland collection]

Discharged from the Air Force on the grounds of being a practising homosexual
(3′28″)
(ca 1997) [Gareth Watkins collection]

Organizing the petition against Homosexual Law Reform – [unidentified speaker] (51″)
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Public meeting - Coalition Against Homosexual Law Reform, Auckland Town Hall
(19 April 1985) [Graham Underhill collection]

Salvation Army (1985).

Salvation Army (1985).

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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