Tongaporutu is part-Māori and proud of his heritage. Geraint, for instance, could go through his all-boys high school with an awareness of his difference but no real confirmation until he explored his needs through the internet. They are stories of discovery, of exploration and largely of acceptance. * Heroes helped decriminalise gay sex, but equity is still a long way offĮach of the book’s images is accompanied by an edited first-person interview. * Record-breaking number of submissions on law proposing to ban conversion therapy * How I Write: Mark Beehre dreams of uncovering treasure of a queer forbear All of Beehre’s sitters have similar experiences. My headmaster attempted to expel me in 1973 for my sexual orientation and I had to fight to remain in secondary school. I am 66 years old and have lived with my male partner for 45 years. More than 800,000 New Zealanders allegedly signed a petition opposing legal changes but this was rejected by Parliament because of irregularities including forged signatures. England’s similar Sexual Offences Act, had been repealed in 1967. Sexual expression between men had been illegal in New Zealand since 1893. This was the end of a long process, painfully drawn out.
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It aims to document, in images and interviews, the experiences of a group of gay men who were born after the passage of the 1986 Homosexual Law Reform Act, which decriminalised sex between men. Massey University has produced a landmark book, A Queer Existence: The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand. They might be the objects of our gaze as we examine them but they also scrutinise us and our own assumptions. REVIEW: The 27 young gay men in Mark Beehre’s square-format photographs look out upon us from a position of almost preternatural stillness. A Queer Existence The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand MARK BEEHRE