Gay rights in NZ: Okay Boomer author Joanne Drayton on our grim history
6 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Peter Jackson s film Heavenly Creatures told the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme s murder of Pauline s mother.
Peter Jackson s film Heavenly Creatures told the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme s murder of Pauline s mother.
NZ Herald
In this extract from Okay, Boomer, a book about the 1960s in New Zealand, author Joanne Drayton explains how homosexuality was seen as a perverse crime - a view reinforced by society s reaction to two senseless killings.
The dynamite decade of the 1960s left my nuclear family unexploded. Its pyrotechnics came later. The revolutions that were taking place globally in fashion, recreational drugs, clubs and counter-culture; human rights and street protests; consumerism; festivals; and alternative communities these passed us by.