Tag: gareth watkins
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...
Historian Gareth Watkins compiles significant July dates in Aotearoa New Zealand’s LGBTQ+ history including the passing of Homosexual Law Reform.
26 July 1877
One of the earliest missionaries in NZ, William Yate, died on this date. Born in Shropshire in 1802 he arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1828. Scholars...
Historian Gareth Watkins highlights June dates that pushed progress forward for Aotearoa’s Rainbow communities.
June 1949
Journalist and author Tom McLean was born in Greenock, Scotland. He worked for a number of Scottish newspapers before moving to NZ in 1973. In the mid-1980s, after a year of general unwellness, he took...
On the 50th anniversary of the birth of NZ's Gay Liberation Front, Gareth Watkins highlights April dates that made a difference to Aotearoa’s LGBTQ+ community.
11 April 1972
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Liberation Front action – a Gay Day held in Auckland. Historian Will Hansen...
Gareth Watkins discovers March dates that made a difference to New Zealand’s LGBTQ+ community.
22 March 1964
Norman “Old Sunshine” Gibson died in New Plymouth. In the 1990s Gibson’s daughter, Miriam Saphira wrote about her father and his relationship with Roy Ayling. Both were soldiers in the First World War, sharing...
