Audio from the Homosexual Law Reform Debate

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0007-AInterview 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-BMorning Report (10 June 1986) featuring items on the Space Shuttle Challenger and 100th anniversary of the Tarawera Eruption (no Law Reform material)
0010-ANightTime Talk (8 August 1985) on Radio Pacific with Lou Sheldon and Ian Scott about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (talkback)
0010-BNightTime Talk (8 August 1985) on Radio Pacific with Lou Sheldon and Ian Scott about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (talkback)
0012-APublic Meeting (11 April 1985) - North Shore, Auckland on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0012-BPublic 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-AMy 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-BNews 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-AAIDS Road Show (August 1984) meeting at Alfies in Auckland
0025-BAIDS Road Show (August 1984) meeting at Alfies in Auckland
0028-ABOpening (ca 1977) of the Metropolitan Community Church Centre (MCC) by Reverend Troy Perry - Karangahape Road, Auckland
0035-APublic 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-BPublic meeting (1985) at the Wainui Branch of the Labour Party Waitemata, about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0048-ATalkback and interview (ca 1980) about the establishment of Collective Catering Services (an early sort of gay community centre in Auckland)
0056-ABPublic meeting (19 April 1985) - Coalition Against Homosexual Law Reform, Auckland Town Hall
0057-ABPublic 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-ABBrief 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-APoems – “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-BSongs by Romanovsky and Phillips from their 1984 LP “I Thought You’d Be Taller”
0070-AAuckland Hospital meeting (1983) on the medical aspects of AIDS
0070-BNational Programme – general programming with a news bulletin (no Law Reform material)
0080-APhil Donahue television chat show (mid 80s) on Gays with Children (US)
0080-BVarious raw audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign for use in a Radio Gala programme (1986)
0083-AThis Way Out (19 June 1993) and interviews about upcoming Hero events
0083-BCompiled audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign for use in a Radio Gala programme (1986)
0091-ABInsight ’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-AMorning Report (10 July 1986) on the morning after the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (9 July 1986)
0134-ATalkback (11 April 1985) on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, on the night of the North Shore meeting in Auckland, plus related news report
0134-BNews reports (12 April 1985) on the morning after the North Shore Homosexual Law Reform meeting in Auckland
0136-ABCompiled 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-ANews reports (17 April 1986) on the day after Part Two of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, outlawing discrimination, was lost (16 April 1986)
0139-BMorning 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-ACompiled audio cuts about the Homosexual Law Reform campaign (1986)
0141-ABNews report (9 July 1986) on the night that the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is passed in Parliament
0143-ABVarious people talking about Mardi Gras (brief), Homosexual Law Reform in the Isle of Man and various queer music tracks (mid 80s)
0144-AInterview with members of the Nelson Gay Welfare Group (26 June 1979) to mark Gay Pride Week 1979
0156-AInsight ’85 – AIDS epidemic in New Zealand (2 March 1985), and Close Up - The Battle to Contain AIDS (March 1985)
0156-BEarly morning talkback (1985) on Radio Pacific about the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0161-ABGay 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-ABTelevision documentary (ca 1978) on homosexuality in New Zealand and an interview with Chris Piesse for Gay Pride Week (1978)
0169-APublic forum on mental health and homosexuality (1978) with Jolyon Allen (Psychologist), Adrian Webster (Trade Unionist) and Don Mence (Presbyterian Minister)
0169-BAn interview with Chris Piesse (President of the Auckland University Gay Liberation) for Gay Pride Week (1978)
0176-ABGay Pride Week (1976) – interviews about being gay with Barry Nonweiler, Judith Emms and Alan Seymour
0177-AInsight ’85 – AIDS epidemic in New Zealand (2 March 1985), and Close Up - The Battle to Contain AIDS (March 1985)
0177-BJohn Clements and Bruce Burnett talk about AIDS, television reports on AIDS infections in the US, report on Homosexual Law Reform petition (1985)
0184-AInsight ’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-BInterview 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-ANorm 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-BGay BC (18 May 1985) – previewing events to be held during Lesbian and Gay Rights Week, including the Bigot Busters
0192-AInterview with Gavin Young on the persecution of gays in Iran and Carol McPhail on the Freer Bill (ca 1980)
0193-AGay Rights radio advertisements (1978) by the National Gay Rights Coalition for the 1978 General Election
0203-AVote (4 July 1975) on the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill and audio from a Gay Liberation Movement meeting
0203-BVote (4 July 1975) on the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill introduced by Venn Young
0204-AParliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0204-BParliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0205-AParliamentary debate (8 March 1985) on the introduction of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0206-AParliamentary 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-BParliamentary 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-AChurch 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-BInterview 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-AGay 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-BGay 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-AInterview and talkback on AIDS (1985) with Dr David Cooper from St Vincent's Hospital – Sydney
0212-BInterviews on attitudes towards AIDS in New Zealand (1985) with Dr Rod Ellis-Pegler, Bill Logan and Dr Ron Barker (Director General of Health)
0212b-BNews items on proposed AIDS testing in New Zealand (1985)
0213-AFirst day of Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0213-BFirst 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-ABFirst day of Parliamentary debate (9 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0215-AParliamentary 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-BParliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0216-AParliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0216-BParliamentary debate (16 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0217-ABParliamentary debate (16 October 1985 and 23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0218-ABParliamentary debate (23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0219-ABParliamentary debate (23 October 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0220-AParliamentary 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-ABParliamentary debate (6 November 1985) on the second reading of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0223-ABParliamentary 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-ABGay 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-ABGay 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-ABGay 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-ABGay 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-AParliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0231-BParliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0232-ABParliamentary Committee Stages (20 November 1985) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0233-AParliamentary Committee Stages (5 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0233-BParliamentary Committee Stages (5 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0234-AParliamentary 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-BParliamentary Committee Stages (25 March 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0235-AMy 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-BParliamentary Committee Stages (2 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0236-AParliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0236-BVarious music tracks from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
0237-AParliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0237-BParliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0237a-AParliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0237a-BParliamentary Committee Stages (9 April 1986) of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
0237b-AParliamentary 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-BMy 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-AInterview 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-BGay 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-ABKim Saffron and Hugh Young (June 1995) talk about HUG - Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays during the period of Homosexual Law Reform
0241-ATalkback (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-BInsight ’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-AInsight ’79 – Human Rights Commission, soon to celebrate its first year of operation (1979)
0248-BGay Pride 1979 (UK, World In Action) and a radio news bulletin
0249-AGay Radio (4 July 1982) featuring an interview about the Gay Community Centre - Lesbian Gay Media Collective, Wellington
0249-BGay Radio (27 June 1982) featuring a repeat of a programme about homosexuality first broadcast in 1981 - Lesbian Gay Media Collective, Wellington
0251-ALou 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-BLou 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-ABGay 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-ARadio GALA (8 July 1990) celebrating the fourth anniversary of the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (9 July 1986)
0323-BRadio GALA (15 July 1990) featuring an interview about the new Metropolitan Community Church boarding house in Auckland and Gay Parents
0411-ANews report (ca 1987) on the Human Rights Commission coming up with ten areas where discrimination should be outlawed – including sexual orientation
0500-ABCampaign Herstory (6 September 1986) - Lesbian perspectives on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill campaign
0501-ABGay 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-APublic meeting (11 July 1985) to launch the ‘Coalition to Support the Bill’
0503-ABigot Busters rally (21 May 1985) at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people
0503-BBigot Busters rally (21 May 1985) at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people
0504-ALesbian and Gay commemoration of the Holocaust (6 May 1985) - Wellington
0505-ABWrap 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-ABPresentation (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-ALesbian 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-AGay 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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