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Gay reform protest

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Gay reform protest

Members and supporters of the gay liberation movement picket outside Parliament in protest at the government's failure to provide time for a private member's bill on homosexual law reform in 1974.

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

Reference: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-Homosexual Law Reform-01

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Chris Brickell, Gay men’s lives – Gay activism and law reform, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27642/gay-reform-protest (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Brickell, published 30 May 2011.