Rights & Realities: Remembering 1986
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min · 2 segments
Forty years ago, on 9 July 1986, the Homosexual Law Reform Act ended the threat of prosecution for gay men and opened the door for progress - a watershed in Aotearoa New Zealand's human rights…
So rather than seeing the past as a dark place and the present as a light place, we can actually see both of them as mixtures of both of those things.
He just wanted to talk to this fictional character.
Because she looked normal.
In a fox
fur.
what it means to have sort of arrived on the backs of community who had been organising, surviving, demanding recognition long before Parliament ever was ready to listen.
This is my true belief.
What an indignity to try not to do the same for those queer and trans people who are still to come.
So rather than seeing the past as a dark place and the present as a light place, we can actually see both of them as mixtures of both of those things.
He just wanted to talk to this fictional character.
Because she looked normal.
In a fox
fur.
what it means to have sort of arrived on the backs of community who had been organising, surviving, demanding recognition long before Parliament ever was ready to listen.
This is my true belief.
What an indignity to try not to do the same for those queer and trans people who are still to come.
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