Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
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20 Years Out! Segment Five
- Actions (7′20″)
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A closet is a very dangerous place to be - Alison Laurie (1″09″)
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Bigot Busters rally at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people.
(21 May 1985) [Public meeting, unknown recorder]Audio from a street march in Wellington, including Glenda Gale (35″)
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(13 September 1985) Gay Broadcasting Collective [Peter Nowland collection]Disruption of the Jackie Butler meeting (57″)
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Jackie Butler (coordinator of 'Women who want to be Women') speaking to the New Zealand League of Rights meeting in Wellington
(29 August 1985) Gay Broadcasting Collective [Peter Nowland collection]It is against the law of nature - Patricia Bartlett (44″)
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(ca 1985) [Peter Nowland collection]Salvation Army Band/Gay Rights medley (1′03″)
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Impromptu Gay Rights march to the Michael Fowler Centre with the Salvation Army
(22 September 1985) [Peter Nowland collection]Yes, Jesus was Gay [unidentified group of singers] (23″)
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(ca 1985) [Peter Nowland collection]Presentation of the petition against Homosexual Law Reform to Parliament (1′04″)
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Includes audio from the event plus the voices of Tighe Instone, Fran Wilde and Tilly Lloyd
(24 September 1985) [Lesbian Programme – Access Radio, recorder unknown]Trevor Mallard - reporting back from the Select Committee on the petition (49″)
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(5 November 1985) [Parliamentary broadcast]John Banks – 835,000 New Zealanders don’t want to know about this Bill (1′16″)
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(25 March 1986) [Parliamentary broadcast]
Public meeting (1985).
Public meeting (1985).
Index
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.