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Cookies Policy We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. When New Zealand became a British colony in , British law was adopted in its entirety, making " buggery " illegal and a capital offence. In , all kinds of sexual activity between men was criminalised, with penalties including imprisonment, hard labour, and flogging.
Despite discriminatory laws, a small gay subculture developed.
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However, as settlers began to move to cities the numbers of convictions for same-sex activities increased. A number of gay men were involved in New Zealand's literary subculture, including Frank Sargeson. However even in these circles, homosexuality was not always accepted. Lesbian subcultures are more difficult to detect, but in late , the KG Kamp Girls club for lesbians was formed in Auckland.
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In , the Dorian Society was founded in Wellington. Attempts to change the law included a petition presented to Parliament by the Homosexual Law Reform Society in Violence against gays and lesbians was often condoned. In , Charles Aberhart was beaten to death in Christchurch 's Hagley Park by a group of men who claimed he had propositioned them. As in many countries, homosexuals were often committed to mental institutions and given 'treatment' for what was rendered a mental illness. In , academic Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was denied a visitors permit to the United States on the grounds that she was a homosexual.
Publicity around the incident was a catalyst in the formation of gay liberation groups in Wellington , Christchurch and Auckland. After several attempts, the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed in , decriminalising sexual activity between men over the age of In New Zealand instituted civil union for both same-sex and opposite sex couples , and in same-sex marriage was legalised. New Zealand's first gay pride week was founded in the s in the wake of the Stonewall riots in New York of , the symbolic start of the modern Gay Rights Movement. This developed into a festival that became burdened by financial problems, leading to the last Hero Parade being held in However, the parade returned as the Auckland Pride Parade in , then transitioned to become the Auckland Pride March in Starting in , Wellington hosted an "Out in the Park" fair, which later evolved into the annual Wellington Pride Festival.
Various surveys have recorded statistics on sexual orientation. Another source of sexual orientation statistics comes from the New Zealand Health Survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health. There has not been an official release of the demographics but an article using the Health Survey for years to reported that 2. Statistics New Zealand has collected some information on same-sex couples who share a residence, recorded in censuses since The census recorded 16, people living in a same-sex couple in New Zealand — 0.
Most same-sex couples did not have children 6,, compared with 1, who had children. A government survey of secondary school students ages 13 to 18 recorded that 92 percent were exclusively attracted to the opposite sex, while 4 percent were attracted to the same sex or both sexes and 4 percent were not sure or were attracted to neither sex. Asked about gender identity, about 1 percent of students reported that they were transgender, while 3 percent were unsure.
Tim Barnett Labour was openly gay before being elected in Even earlier Marilyn Waring , a New Zealand National Party MP in the s and s, was also outed as a lesbian during her term and subsequently re-elected. There have also been other openly gay government ministers , such as Attorney General Chris Finlayson who was the National Party's first openly gay minister, [26] and Labour's Grant Robertson , the first openly gay Minister of Finance.
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