Tag: gareth watkins
Historian Gareth Watkins documents significant January dates from Aotearoa’s past queer calendar.
9 January 1923
One of New Zealand’s most famous writers, Katherine Mansfield, died in...
Gareth Watkins highlights significant August dates from Aotearoa’s rainbow history.
28 August 1954
Teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were found guilty of murdering Parker’s mother...
From the early stages of homosexual law reform, successful gay panic murder defences to a ground-breaking yachtsman – Gareth Watkins examines the July dates...
Historian Gareth Watkins revisits significant dates in Aotearoa’s queer history.
11 April 1910
Artist Toss Woollaston was born in Stratford. He would become one of...
Historian Gareth Watkins selects his most significant moments from Aotearoa’s queer history from February's past.
3 February 1944
Human rights campaigner Sister Paula Brettkelly was born...
Historian Gareth Watkins uncovers significant dates in NZ’s rainbow history.
2 December 1897
Social reformer and activist Rewi Alley was born in Canterbury. Much of...
Gareth Watkins looks back at the events that shaped our Rainbow Community.
November 1957
Activist and politician Georgina Beyer was born in Wellington. Beyer’s rich life...
express history page writer Gareth Watkins is well known for his passion for recording not only Wellington’s greatest community members but rainbow people around...
