Tag: New Zealand’s Queer History
Historian Gareth Watkins explores past May dates that have had a profound effect on Aotearoa’s rainbow communities.
17 May 1915
In Auckland, Leslie Lander pleaded guilty to committing an unnatural act (buggery) and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 10 years imprisonment for indecent assault. The 24-year-old had earlier been the...
Historian Gareth Watkins remembers significant moments in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities.
23 January 1964
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the brutal killing of Charles Allan Aberhart. Aberhart was not only persecuted by this country’s laws, with a conviction in 1963 for consensual homosexual activity (a...
