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Infuriated, she gave a rousing speech to students at the University of Auckland, challenging them to be open about their homosexuality: “who out there is crazy enough to join me – and let’s start gay liberation!” Īt a meeting in Te Awekotuku’s flat shortly afterward, Aotearoa’s first gay liberation group was founded. Her visa however was stalled on the grounds of ‘sexual deviance’. In March 1972 she was nominated to study abroad in the United States, planning to research American gay liberation and Red Power.
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Lesbian and Māori rights activist Ngahuia Te Awekotuku catalysed gay liberation in Aotearoa. Queer people have always formed bonds of kinship and whanaungatanga in resistance to the powers which strove to invisibilise them, relying on one another for support, safety, love and pride. Te Papa (GH025385) The beginnings of local prideĪlthough the Stonewall riots of New York in 1969 are often referred to as the “first pride”, to label Stonewall as that which kicked things off in Aotearoa is to ignore our very own radical history! Aotearoa was home to both informal and organised networks of queer community well before 1969 community lay the foundation for our pride. Trans Is Beautiful poster, 2018, illustration by Ariki Arts, design by Ahi Wi-Hongi, published by Gender Minorities Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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