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March supporting gay law reform

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March supporting gay law reform

This woman with her 'gay bitch' dog and her male colleagues with multi-coloured balloons are marching on 24 May 1985 in support of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. Until the passage of the bill, sex acts between men were a punishable offence. The move to end such discrimination followed from the emergence of ideas of personal liberation and group identity, which arose among a younger generation in New Zealand from the late 1960s.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1985/2383/21-F

by Ross Giblin

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

Jock Phillips, Ideas in New Zealand – Identity politics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/45514/march-supporting-gay-law-reform (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 3 June 2014.