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Gareth Watkins fondly revisits Georgina Beyer’s reflections on the most significant moments in her professional career.
In 2013 I was privileged to record over five hours of audio interviews with Georgina about her life and career. In tribute to Georgina, here are some lightly edited quotations from those recordings.
Georgina was...
Historian Gareth Watkins uncovers dates in New Zealand’s past that have impacted today’s queer community in Aotearoa.
28 March 1903
Playwright and medical practitioner Merton Hodge was born on this day in Taruheru, Poverty Bay. Hodge studied at King’s College in Auckland and then Otago Medical School. He moved to England...
Historian Gareth Watkins unearths February dates from the past that have had a significant impact on today’s queer community.
6 February 1840
Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi was signed on this day. With it came New Zealand’s adoption of English law, including the Offences Against the Person Act, which made...
Historian Gareth Watkins unearths January dates from that past that have had a significant impact on today’s queer community.
8-9 January 1977
The first meeting of the National Gay Rights Coalition of NZ was held in Wellington. The diversity of activist and social rainbow groups had been growing since the early...
For some festive fun, historian Gareth Watkins presents the chance for you to test your knowledge of Aotearoa New Zealand’s queer history.
Questioning:
1 Name the activist who got angry on the 15 March 1972 at Auckland University, shouting “Let’s start a revolution!”
2 Where does the world’s (unofficial) shortest Pride...
Historian Gareth Watkins highlights November dates that highlight the significant strides that New Zealand’s rainbow communities have made.
27 November 1974
On this day, representatives from five Gay Liberation groups made submissions to a parliamentary select committee. The Committee was considering MP Venn Young’s members bill which set out to decriminalise...
Historian Gareth Watkins examines October dates, significant for highlighting change and progression for our rainbow communities in Aotearoa.
11 October 1938
Prolific author William Taylor was born on this day in Lower Hutt. He left school at the age of sixteen, and after working in a bank for some time trained...
Historian Gareth Watkins reviews September dates connected with significant members of the rainbow communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
27 September 1953
Jonathan Dennis, founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive, was born on this day in Taumarunui. His early years were spent in the Aoraki/Mount Cook region before he was...