Media ID 0503-A

Bigot Busters rally (21 May 1985) at Wellington Town Hall attended by 1400 people

Unique ID

1127980964-57

Speakers

Alison Laurie, Lloyd Scott, Normal Jones, unidentified speakers

Related media

0503-B

Details

Source tape

0503-A
Date

21 May 1985
Source

Public Meeting
Copyright

Public Meeting
Recorded by

unknown
Deposited by

unknown

Comments

Refer also to 0503-B

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.

Summary

	Big Busters rally introduced by Lloyd Scott – Wellington Town Hall (21 May 1985)

01:18	Lloyd Scott – good evening folks.. a night to be proud of .. pink triangle is bursting with pride.. an evening of celebration.. Chris McDonald – guitarist – was playing before.. There’s a stall at the back selling Bigot Buster T-Shirts.. $25 waged, $20 unwaged.. Lesbian Coalition newspaper advertisement petition .. goes into the paper on Friday..

03:40	Scott – Introducing Auckland band Siren [applause]

	Siren perform:

04:45	Maddy Prior - Mother And Child

06:30	Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot

10:50	Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown, and White Blues

13:30	Joni Mitchell – That Song About the Midway

17:50	Lesbian Blues (from 1927)

20:40	Members - Solitary Confinement

24:50	Bob Dylan - Rita May

27:20	Lloyd Scott – here’s Normal Jones..

28:00	Normal Jones – I want some feedback.. You have lost the battle.. losers.. I am a big boozer.. I am a piss head.. I have brought a petition.. I have got a million signatures.. writers cramp in this hand.. this Bill will never be passed.. I don’t dip my penis into sewerage .. I like to dip it into.. that’s normal because my budgie is a female budgie.. I’m not a religious man.. God is working threw me.. I’m talking about you homos.. you leso’s what do you with each other.. you make me sick.. Sir Robert is not a homo.. there’s a lot of people who weren’t homos.. you’re in the minority .. are you all gay here tonight.. petition envy.. vaginas.. what’s love .. what’s love got to do with it.. love does what you tell it..

33:00	Bigot Busters song

34:00	Lloyd Scott – wonderful letters to the papers.. some full of hate.. sexual practises will become rampant in schools.. boys with no sexual partners will turn to girls..

35:20	Alison Laurie – this is a much nicer gathering than the last time I was in the Town Hall.. at least the first 20 rows aren’t full of Christians..

36:20	Laurie – as lesbians we experience at least a double oppression - women and lesbian.. our interest in the Bill is different but of equal importance.. it has been said that no woman is free until every woman is free to choose to be a lesbian.. all women are kept in line with the threat of what happens to lesbians.. any woman who steps outside the proper sex-role of women .. self determination.. a woman’s right to choose .. we live in a system of compulsory heterosexuality..

40:20	Laurie - as lesbians we support this Bill.. the aspect of criminalisation must be removed.. Part Two is extremely important – human rights.. Part Two does not go far enough.. so many New Zealand lesbian and gay men live in exile.. Katherine Mansfield for example.. In Norway there are hate-speech laws.. ‘mobbing’ is where groups identify individuals.. it turns into fascism..

44:10	Laurie – we have links and connections with others who suffer oppressions.. all of those oppressions come from the same place – straight, white, middle-class men.. we need to support other oppressed groups.. [continues on 0503-B]