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Kōrero: Gay men’s lives

At the seaside

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At the seaside

A group of young men pose at Lyall Bay in Wellington around 1910. The two men with their arms around each other may have been a couple. The significance of the New Zealand flag is unknown, but perhaps it was an expression of their identity as New Zealanders.  

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

Reference: 1/1-022862-G

by Sydney Charles Smith

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Chris Brickell, Gay men’s lives – History, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27639/at-the-seaside (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Chris Brickell, i tāngia i te 21 February 2011.