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Kōrero: Families: a history

Diverse families

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Diverse families

Families in the 21st century come in all shapes and sizes. Some children, like five-month-old Liliana, have gay parents. In February 2006 at the Big Gay Out Festival at Coyle Park in Auckland, Liliana's parents, lesbian couple Andi Chapman (centre, holding the baby) and Kim Myhill (right), met up with her biological father, Giovanni Fabricius (left), who is also gay.

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by Greg Bowker

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Ian Pool rāua ko Rosemary Du Plessis, Families: a history – 21st-century families, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/30227/diverse-families (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian Pool rāua ko Rosemary Du Plessis, i tāngia i te 31 March 2011, updated 1 July 2017.