You can also explore key events relating to homosexual law reform in New Zealand.
0007-A | Interview with Bill Hodge (1985) on the New Zealand Bill of Rights and a news report about Graeme Lee and Jim McLay opposing the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (1985) |
0007-B | Morning Report (10 June 1986) featuring items on the Space Shuttle Challenger and 100th anniversary of the Tarawera Eruption (no Law Reform material) |
0010-A | NightTime Talk (8 August 1985) on Radio Pacific with Lou Sheldon and Ian Scott about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (talkback) |
0010-B | NightTime Talk (8 August 1985) on Radio Pacific with Lou Sheldon and Ian Scott about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (talkback) |
0012-A | Public Meeting (11 April 1985) - North Shore, Auckland on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0012-B | Public Meeting (11 April 1985) - North Shore, Auckland on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill and news items on the meeting, Graeme Lee and the petition, plus money for combating AIDS |
0018-A | My Word (BBC panel show), item on the Dorian Society and Victoria Club rugby match (11 July 1987), and Adrian Kelly interviewed on gay Roman Catholics (ca 1986) |
0018-B | News item on the introduction of AZT (AIDS drug), ‘Dedication of the Bathhouse’ (1987, radio play), interview with a mother whose son died of AIDS, and an interview with George Salmond on AIDS (ca 1987) and the World Health Organization |
0025-A | AIDS Road Show (August 1984) meeting at Alfies in Auckland |
0025-B | AIDS Road Show (August 1984) meeting at Alfies in Auckland |
0028-AB | Opening (ca 1977) of the Metropolitan Community Church Centre (MCC) by Reverend Troy Perry - Karangahape Road, Auckland |
0035-A | Public meeting (1985) in Auckland with Jim McLay, and a public meeting (1985) at the Wainui Branch of the Labour Party Waitemata, about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0035-B | Public meeting (1985) at the Wainui Branch of the Labour Party Waitemata, about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0048-A | Talkback and interview (ca 1980) about the establishment of Collective Catering Services (an early sort of gay community centre in Auckland) |
0056-AB | Public meeting (19 April 1985) - Coalition Against Homosexual Law Reform, Auckland Town Hall |
0057-AB | Public meeting (19 April 1985) - Coalition Against Homosexual Law Reform, Auckland Town Hall, and news items on the spread of AIDS, The National Council of Churches and Geoff Braybrooke |
0058-AB | Brief preview on Radio GALA of Sydney Mardi Gras, and an interview (1992) with Robert Rowan – born 1915, openly gay in the 1940s and 1950s in New Zealand |
0063-A | Poems – “The Old” and “New Zealand Gay Liberation Day, 9 July 1986” (1986), interview with Bruce Burnett (February 1985) about AIDS in New Zealand, and two songs from English gay songwriter Daniel Lee |
0063-B | Songs by Romanovsky and Phillips from their 1984 LP “I Thought You’d Be Taller” |
0070-A | Auckland Hospital meeting (1983) on the medical aspects of AIDS |
0070-B | National Programme – general programming with a news bulletin (no Law Reform material) |
0080-A | Phil Donahue television chat show (mid 80s) on Gays with Children (US) |
0080-B | Various raw audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign for use in a Radio Gala programme (1986) |
0083-A | This Way Out (19 June 1993) and interviews about upcoming Hero events |
0083-B | Compiled audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign for use in a Radio Gala programme (1986) |
0091-AB | Insight ’85 - The Moral Majority (16 September 1985) - The rise of the religious right in New Zealand, Insight ’85 – Australia/New Zealand ties (1985), and a news items on delays in blood donor testing for AIDS and the validity of names on the anti Homosexual Law Reform Petition (1985) |
0102-A | Morning Report (10 July 1986) on the morning after the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (9 July 1986) |
0134-A | Talkback (11 April 1985) on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, on the night of the North Shore meeting in Auckland, plus related news report |
0134-B | News reports (12 April 1985) on the morning after the North Shore Homosexual Law Reform meeting in Auckland |
0136-AB | Compiled audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign for use in a Radio Gala programme and a Leather Auction to raise money for HIV/AIDS (1986) |
0139-A | News reports (17 April 1986) on the day after Part Two of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, outlawing discrimination, was lost (16 April 1986) |
0139-B | Morning Report (28 March 1986) on the day after the age of consent is confirmed at sixteen for homosexual acts (27 March 1986), also Jim Bolger replaces Jim McLay as the leader of the National Party |
0140-A | Compiled audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (1986) |
0141-AB | News report (9 July 1986) on the night that the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is passed in Parliament |
0143-AB | Various people talking about Mardi Gras (brief), Homosexual Law Reform in the Isle of Man and various queer music tracks (mid 80s) |
0144-A | Interview with members of the Nelson Gay Welfare Group (26 June 1979) to mark Gay Pride Week 1979 |
0156-A | Insight ’85 – AIDS epidemic in New Zealand (2 March 1985), and Close Up - The Battle to Contain AIDS (March 1985) |
0156-B | Early morning talkback (1985) on Radio Pacific about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0161-AB | Gay Pride – Ten Years On (1983), news item about protests when Michael Fowler visits San Francisco (13 July 1981 or 1983?) and Men’s Liberation and Censorship on Television |
0167-AB | Television documentary (ca 1978) on homosexuality in New Zealand and an interview with Chris Piesse for Gay Pride Week (1978) |
0169-A | Public forum on mental health and homosexuality (1978) with Jolyon Allen (Psychologist), Adrian Webster (Trade Unionist) and Don Mence (Presbyterian Minister) |
0169-B | An interview with Chris Piesse (President of the Auckland University Gay Liberation) for Gay Pride Week (1978) |
0176-AB | Gay Pride Week (1976) – interviews about being gay with Barry Nonweiler, Judith Emms and Alan Seymour |
0177-A | Insight ’85 – AIDS epidemic in New Zealand (2 March 1985), and Close Up - The Battle to Contain AIDS (March 1985) |
0177-B | John Clements and Bruce Burnett talk about AIDS, television reports on AIDS infections in the US, report on Homosexual Law Reform petition (1985) |
0184-A | Insight ’85 – Homosexual Law Reform Bill (1985) and Radio Pacific talkback (12 April 1985) on the night after the North Shore meeting on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0184-B | Interview with Sebastian Pope (23 March 1985), a 17 year-old gay man, and talkback on 2ZB Wellington about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (1985) |
0191-A | Norm Jones interviewed by Jessica Weddell (4 May 1985), Holocaust commemoration (6 May 1985) by Wellington’s gay community, and a Gay BC recap on the beginning of public submissions on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (11 May 1985) |
0191-B | Gay BC (18 May 1985) – previewing events to be held during Lesbian and Gay Rights Week, including the Bigot Busters |
0192-A | Interview with Gavin Young on the persecution of gays in Iran and Carol McPhail on the Freer Bill (ca 1980) |
0193-A | Gay Rights radio advertisements (1978) by the National Gay Rights Coalition for the 1978 General Election |
0203-A | Vote (4 July 1975) on the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill and audio from a Gay Liberation Movement meeting |
0203-B | Vote (4 July 1975) on the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill introduced by Venn Young |
0204-A | Parliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0204-B | Parliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0205-A | Parliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0206-A | Parliamentary debate (5 November 1985) on the report back of the Justice and Law Reform Committee on the Keith Hay petition against the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0206-B | Parliamentary debate (5 November 1985) on the report back on the Keith Hay petition against the Homosexual Law Reform Bill and Insight ’85 – Ex Gays |
0207-A (LGRRC #26) | Interview with Norm Jones (13 November 1985) just prior to the vote allowing the Homosexual Reform Bill to be read a second time, and an interview with Fran Wilde (14 November 1985) on the day after the vote to send the Homosexual Law Reform Bill to it’s Second Reading |
0207-AB (LGRRC #16) | Radio Pacific talkback just after the Human Rights Commission rejects National Gay Rights Coalition submissions, recommending that they be referred to the Criminal Law Reform Committee (ca September 1980) |
0208-A | Church service (26 June 1967) in St Peter’s Church Wellington, titled “The Outsiders” featuring a story about a gay man, along with radio broadcasts on the Colin Moyle affair (November 1976) |
0208-B | Interview on lesbian lifestyles (23 August 1977) along with news reports on the Colin Moyle affair (November 1976) |
0209-A (LGRRC #18) | Interview with Mike Waghorne on the aims of the Gay Rights Movement (ca 1979) |
0209-A (LGRRC #28) | H.B. Turbott ‘the radio doctor’ talks about AIDS (21 January 1984), and Insight ’84 -Homosexual Law Reform (1984) |
0209-B (LGRRC #28) | Dedicatio Balinei [plain chant, commercial music recording] |
0210-A (LGRRC #29) | Interview with Sebastian Pope (23 March 1985), a 17 year-old gay man, and general news items (22 March 1985) |
0210-AB (LGRRC #19) | Radio New Zealand Human Rights Awards (1978) featuring “The Right to an Appropriate Education”, “Child Abuse” and “The Right to be Different” (about gay rights, Wellington High School students) |
0210-B (LGRRC #29) | Tonight Show talkback (ca 9 March 1985) just after the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was introduced into Parliament (8 March 1985) |
0211-A | Gay BC (9 March 1985) – excerpts from Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten, plus notices about Gay Task Force meetings and a recap on the Homosexual Law Reform debate so far |
0211-B | Gay BC (30 March 1985) - ‘A remembrance of things past’ a feature on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and news on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0212-A | Interview and talkback on AIDS (1985) with Dr David Cooper from St Vincent's Hospital – Sydney |
0212-B | Interviews on attitudes towards AIDS in New Zealand (1985) with Dr Rod Ellis-Pegler, Bill Logan and Dr Ron Barker (Director General of Health) |
0212b-B | News items on proposed AIDS testing in New Zealand (1985) |
0213-A | First day of Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0213-B | First day of Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, also news reports (10 October 1985) and two queer comedy skits – ‘The Politician’ and ‘The Kid’ |
0214-AB | First day of Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0215-A | Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985 and 16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, plus excerpts (8 March 1985) from the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0215-B | Parliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0216-A | Parliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0216-B | Parliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0217-AB | Parliamentary debate (16 October 1985 and 23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0218-AB | Parliamentary debate (23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0219-AB | Parliamentary debate (23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0220-A | Parliamentary debate (23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill and various news reports on the Bill and about confidential AIDS testing |
0222-AB | Parliamentary debate (6 November 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0223-AB | Parliamentary debate (6 November 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, plus interviews with Alison Laurie and Pol McCann (2 November 1985), Noel Mosen (a self-declared ‘ex-gay’, 5 November 1985), John Steenhof, and various news reports on the collection of signatures for the Hay Petition |
0227-AB | Gay Task Force member’s panel discussion (10 September 1986) and reflections on the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (this tape - Gay Pride and visibility in 1985, Select Committee proceedings) |
0228-AB | Gay Task Force member’s panel discussion (10 September 1986) and reflections on the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (this tape – Moral Imperialism, international influences, Gay Task Force activities) |
0229-AB | Gay Task Force member’s panel discussion (10 September 1986) and reflections on the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (this tape – Gay Task Force activities in 1985, HUG - Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays, Rallies, Salvation Army, events at the beginning of 1986) |
0230-AB | Gay Task Force member’s panel discussion (10 September 1986) and reflections on the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (this tape – advertising campaign, age of consent, and in the aftermath of the Bill passing) |
0231-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0231-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0232-AB | Parliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0233-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (5 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0233-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (5 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0234-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (25 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill and a news report on the drawn out nature of Parliamentary proceedings and new anti-discrimination laws passed in New York to combat AIDS (ca 20 March 1986) |
0234-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (25 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0235-A | My Word (BBC panel show), an interview on being a Gay Humanist (29 August 1987) and Parliamentary Committee Stages (2 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0235-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (2 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0236-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0236-B | Various music tracks from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong |
0237-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0237-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0237a-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0237a-B | Parliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0237b-A | Parliamentary Committee Stages (16 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (the night Part Two was lost - anti discrimination measures), news reports and talkback on the loss of Part Two (17 April 1986) |
0237b-B | My Word (BBC panel show) and Parliamentary Committee Stages (16 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (the night Part Two was lost - anti discrimination measures) |
0238-A | Interview with Gloria van Grafthorst (1986) - the mother of Eve van Grafthorst, interview with Dr Richard Meech (1986), Chairman of the AIDS advisory committee, talkback on 2ZB about AIDS, news items on Catholic MPs wavering and why David Lange supports the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, Gay BC (26 April 1986) and Gay BC (3 May 1986) |
0238-B | Gay BC (14 June 1986 and 28 June 1986) and news items on new strains of AIDS and alleged delaying tactics used in Parliament during the Homosexual Law Reform Bill debate (ca June 1986) |
0239-AB | Kim Saffron and Hugh Young (June 1995) talk about HUG - Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays during the period of Homosexual Law Reform |
0241-A | Talkback (May 1985) on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, Phil Parkinson interviewed about AIDS in New Zealand (May 1985), Fran Wilde calling talkback radio (May 1985) and Insight ’85 – Homosexual Law Reform Bill (1985) |
0241-B | Insight ’85 – Homosexual Law Reform Bill (1985), Norm Jones interviewed by Jessica Weddell (4 May 1985), audio from the Lower Hutt meeting (1985), and an interview with Fran Wilde (1985) about public meetings and future tactics concerning the Homosexual Law Reform Bill |
0248-A | Insight ’79 – Human Rights Commission, soon to celebrate its first year of operation (1979) |
0248-B | Gay Pride 1979 (UK, World In Action) and a radio news bulletin |
0249-A | Gay Radio (4 July 1982) featuring an interview about the Gay Community Centre - Lesbian Gay Media Collective, Wellington |
0249-B | Gay Radio (27 June 1982) featuring a repeat of a programme about homosexuality first broadcast in 1981 - Lesbian Gay Media Collective, Wellington |
0251-A | Lou Sheldon (8 August 1994) interview and talkback on the Traditional Values Coalition and the rights or wrongs of the Gay Rights Movement (Radio Rhema) |
0251-B | Lou Sheldon (8 August 1994) interview and talkback on the Traditional Values Coalition and the rights or wrongs of the Gay Rights Movement (Radio Rhema) |
0271-AB | Gay BC (12 July 1986) celebrating the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (9 July 1986) and Gay BC (28 June 1986) Stonewall Anniversary |
0323-A | Radio GALA (8 July 1990) celebrating the fourth anniversary of the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (9 July 1986) |
0323-B | Radio GALA (15 July 1990) featuring an interview about the new Metropolitan Community Church boarding house in Auckland and Gay Parents |
0411-A | News report (ca 1987) on the Human Rights Commission coming up with ten areas where discrimination should be outlawed – including sexual orientation |
0500-AB | Campaign Herstory (6 September 1986) - Lesbian perspectives on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill campaign |
0501-AB | Gay BC (11 January 1986) with a review of Homosexual Law Reform activity in 1985 plus audio from New Years celebrations at Vinegar Hill (31 December 1985) |
0502-A | Public meeting (11 July 1985) to launch the ‘Coalition to Support the Bill’ |
0503-A | Bigot Busters rally (21 May 1985) at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people |
0503-B | Bigot Busters rally (21 May 1985) at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people |
0504-A | Lesbian and Gay commemoration of the Holocaust (6 May 1985) - Wellington |
0505-AB | Wrap up of Lesbian and Gay marches (13 September 1985) supporting the Homosexual Law Reform Bill and the Lesbian Programme (15 September 1985) music request show |
0506-AB | Presentation (24 September 1985) of the anti Homosexual Law Reform petition at Parliament, Debbie Jones comments on “Our Voices, Our Vision – Feminism in New Zealand” and audio clips celebrating the first year of the weekly Lesbian Programme (6 October 1985) |
0507-A | Lesbian Programme (20 April 1986) in the week that Part Two (anti discrimination) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was lost, includes an interview with Joanna Beresford |
0508-A | Gay BC (31 August 1985) during the Bigot Busters conference in Wellington, interviews with Graeme Russell, Robin Duff, Les Taylor, part of a speech from Michelle Tui and audio from Jackie Butler’s disrupted League of Rights meeting in Wellington |
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