Media ID   0238-A    

Unique ID

1126208771-68

Speakers

Bill Dillon, David Hindley, Gloria van Grafthorst, John Lusk, Richard Meech, Shane Towns, talkback callers, unidentified speakers

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Details

Source tape		0238-A
Date		1986, 26 April 1986, 3 May 1986
Source		2ZB Wellington, Gay Broadcasting Collective – Access Radio Wellington
Copyright		2ZB Wellington, Gay Broadcasting Collective – Access Radio Wellington
Recorded by		(Old LGRRC cassette)
Deposited by		(Old LGRRC cassette)

Comments

Recorded off the radio with a bit of hum

Disclaimer

This summary gives general themes as to the content of this recording. It is not a verbatim transcript. Always refer back to the original audio. This is a working document and any amendments/corrections are welcome.

Paul Holmes (2ZB Wellington, 1986?) interviewing Gloria van Grafthorst [the mother of Eve, a child with HIV, who moved to New Zealand from Australia due to AIDS discrimination. This interview takes place before they moved to New Zealand.. they had just returned to Australia after a visit]

01:00

Gloria van Grafthorst, speaking from Australia

02:00

Grafthorst - It is highly impossible to contract AIDS through casual contact.

02:10

Grafthorst – Saliva.. it’s impossible for other children to get AIDS

03:00

Grafthorst – neighbours are standing by us.. but their children are being ostracised by the community

03:30

Grafthorst – sharing the same plates.. glasses.. fork..

04:40

Grafthorst – friends of Eves - Damian.. Laura..

05:20

Holmes – Eve is only three.. is she starting wonder if she’s different..

05:50

Grafthorst – Eve wonders why parents panic when they take their children away.. she makes friends pretty easily..

06:45

Grafthorst - We’ve all been tested for AIDS antibodies..

07:10

Grafthorst - There were lots of children to play with in New Zealand

08:00

Grafthorst – At the airport we were met by a Maori gentlemen who took us out for the day.. the children played with Eve for the rest of the day.. it was wonderful

08:30

Grafthorst – I miss home (New Zealand) .. change in people..

09:20

Grafthorst – I’ve learnt a lot in the past few months.. AIDS.. politics.. people..

09:40

Grafthorst – Another four young couples are supportive.. but the rest of the community..

10:10

Holmes - appeal to bring the family back to Hawkes Bay

10:45

Grafthorst – I can’t tell you how much it means to us.. thank you New Zealand.

Continues with 2ZB talkback

11:30

Caller: Female – it’s not fair that that little girl is

Continues with an interview with Dr Richard Meech (1986?), Chairman of the AIDS advisory committee, by Paul Holmes on 2ZB Wellington

12:00

Richard Meech – No children with AIDS in New Zealand.. carrying the AIDS antibody – several children in New Zealand..

13:30

Meech – There is no reason to exclude them from other children when there is ‘normal’ social contact and bladder or bowl continence is normal.. grey area of concern..

16:00

Meech – circumstances in Australia are quite different..

17:20

Holmes – Saliva

17:40

Meech – there has been one study done.. 85 specimens were studied .. only one specimen of saliva came up positive.. haemophiliacs..

20:20

Meech -this virus is not terribly infectious.. you have to go out of your way and do certain things to contract the virus.. health care worker accidents.. it is a lifestyle disease.. blood exposure .. sexual exposure..

22:00

Meech – there are certainly young to older children (5 –12) at school who are virus carriers.. schools are not informed.. this is not a virus spread by casual personal contact .. both in the North and South Island.. all of the cases are haemophilic children..

24:00

Meech – If Eve’s social behaviour is ‘normal’.. no biting or aggressive involvement with other children .. there is no reason to exclude the pre-school situation.

24:40

Meech – our understanding of AIDS has only been around for five years.. 10-15% of those who are antibody positive will go on to develop AIDS.. another 10-15% may go on to be unwell.. after about five years one-third may have some sort of illness..

26:00

Holmes – Are these handful of children going to die

26:10

Meech – I can’t answer that question

Continues with 2ZB talkback

26:40

Caller: Female – I’m going to divide my pension by half and give it to Eve..

27:10

Caller: Female – she doesn’t have AIDS itself.. does AIDS work the same as Polio.. if she’s only got the antibodies she wouldn’t infect anyone..??

28:40

Caller: Female – I think instead of funding Eve coming to New Zealand we should be putting money into research..

28:20

Holmes – discrimination against the family

Radio News

30:20

News – Graeme Lee says several MPs who are Catholic may be wavering because of religious obligations.. Bill Dillon

30:35

Bill Dillon - I don’t believe that I am rejecting the Catholic viewpoint.. the Catholic viewpoint has been that the legality and the morality are two separate issues.

Gay BC (26 April 1986) – Access Radio Wellington

31:08

Gay BC introduced by Shane Towns

31:30

Homosexual Law Reform Bill recap: confusion of Parliamentary procedure.. age of consent.. the Bill has been before Parliament for nearly fourteen months.. not an Appropriation Bill.. letters still need to be sent to MPs

33:40

Robert Muldoon acting in the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Auckland..

34:20

What’s On: Researcher from the Wolfenden Commission will speak at Crossways.. Gay Task Force meetings at the Dorian Club.. Volunteers needed for the Gay Stand at the Wellington Trade Fair.. Gay counselling service.. lobbying MPs.. it’s highly likely the Bill could go out the window..

36:20

Kat – introducing music track “The Flame”

News item on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill (National Programme?)

37:40

Why David Lange supports Homosexual Law Reform .. he saw the law destroy people who did not deserve to be destroyed..

Gay BC (3 May 1986) – Access Radio Wellington

38:10

Gay BC introduced by John Lusk

38:40

music track

Interview with David Hindley – member of the Pink Triangle Publishing Collective (3 May 1986)

38:50

David Hindley – what’s in the latest issue of Pink Triangle.. print run – a couple of thousand.. we sell it in Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, New York, London.. magazine exchange with other magazines.. all of overseas magazines end up at the Resource Centre..

40:30

Hindley – story behind “That’s what Friends are For” song.. Physique magazines.. Law Reform update.. gay guide.. how to contribute.. fifty people involved in each issue.. the Collective meets a few weeks before the issue is put out..

44:10

List of gay bookstores in Wellington

44:20

What’s On: Philip Burdon proposes age of consent at 19.. keep lobbying MPs.. how to lobby article in Evening Post..