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Hi. Welcome to Gay Morning, New Zealand for Saturday, the 28th of June 1986. Today is Stonewall Day and commemoration of the Stonewall Riot in New York on the 28th of June 1969. That was the start of gay liberation, and it was also the day Judy Garland was buried. Good piece of useless information there. Today is also the birthday of American gay footballer Dave Coupe, a professional athlete who came out in 1975 and caused [00:00:30] quite a stir. Well, that's my 30 seconds up. I'll be back in a moment with ABC News. I met you at you very nice you were with him. 30 seconds. Tell you everything I've seen. Why [00:01:00] you're listening to Gay Morning, New Zealand. It's 25 minutes to 12, and that's time for ABC News. A group of nine parents and teachers at Hastings Rudolph Steiner School are arranging an AIDS information meeting for the school's committee. The Hastings School is still considering whether to enrol a child with AIDS. Eve van Grapo. Meanwhile, the Little Rock Anna [00:01:30] USA. Maggie Knox, a health service specialist with the American Red Cross, told a parent teachers conference this week that the chances of AIDS spreading among Children in the classroom are about the same as being hit by lightning on a sunny day. Rob Lake, a spokesperson for Shea, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, said on Tuesday that the age of consent for anal intercourse should not be raised to 18 years on the homosexual law reform bill. He said that the bill is likely to be recommitted for consideration in the committee stages, in which case Bill Sutton's amendment [00:02:00] of 18 years for anal intercourse and 16 years for other homosexual activity will probably be adopted. Rob Blake said the Campaign for Homosexual Equality entirely rejects a proposal and calls on MPs to throw out the rec committal motion and to vote for an age of consent of 16. The debate on the bill will continue on Wednesday night. Don't miss it, it's only your lives they're debating. Meanwhile, law reform opponent Graham Lee has had to back track on statements he made recently. Last month, Graeme Lee issued a statement which contained photocopied pages [00:02:30] from the New Zealand section of the Spartacus International Gay Guide. However, he was accused of infringing copyright and on Wednesday revisited all the journalists to which the statement had been given to try to get the offending pages back. The Spartacus International Gay Guide gives details of bars, clubs, discos and other places where gays meet in New Zealand. I wonder if it mentions Parliament. Graham Lee felt that the international directory showed that homosexuality was highly organised and on the increase. Nice try, Graham. But it is true. A recent survey by the Coalition of Concerned Citizens of [00:03:00] West Auckland bigots has found that most people who signed last year's anti gay petition would do so again. They also found in the Tiatto electorate that 240 people were dissatisfied with their MP, Dr Michael Bassett, voting for the homosexual law reform bill. The coalition's press release yesterday did not state which Salvation Army Citadel. The survey was done outside New Zealand's lesbian and gay population has risen by 13,210 according to figures released this week by the government statistician. The recent census show that the homosexual increase [00:03:30] occurred mostly in the North Island. New Zealand's lesbians and gays now number approximately 330,000 1007 184 Wellington's lesbian and gay population has increased by 1.4 per cent to approximately 32,780. These figures are, of course, based on the assumption that nine out of 10 people are through no fault of their own, neither lesbian nor gay. The vice chancellor of Waikato University said yesterday that the university will not discriminate against homosexuals among staff or students. The [00:04:00] University Council recently expanded its policy of seeking to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for jobs will be told that Waikato University does not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation, religion, sex or race. New Zealand's first AIDS Outpatients clinic will be named after Bruce Burnett founder and until his death last year, co ordinator of the AIDS support Network. The Burnett Clinic at Auckland Hospital will be officially opened on the 11th of July by Minister of Health Michael Bassett. Meanwhile, the Wellington Hospital Board and the AIDS Foundation [00:04:30] have still not settled on their differences over what form an AIDS clinic for Wellington should take. The proposed AIDS clinic has not been discussed in public public board meetings for more than six weeks, Wellington Board Medical Superintendent and chief Brian Cole said a full separate AIDS clinic is not warranted. The position of counsellor for the clinic is to be re advertised despite consideration of four applicants earlier this month. Scientists earlier this week ended a three day international AIDS conference in Paris on a note of optimism about prospects for fighting the killer [00:05:00] disease. United States AIDS specialist Robert Gallo said that by next year, scientists should have a full understanding of the AIDS virus and be ready to develop practical ways of arresting the disease. Earlier in the conference, scientists from San Francisco, Seattle and Strasbourg, France, reported successful experiments of genetically engineered products that prevented AIDS in the test tube. Conference Chairperson Professor Jean Claude Gluckman said that all researchers agreed that genetic engineering techniques would eventually lead to a vaccine. Over 2500 scientists [00:05:30] from all over the world attended the conference in Paris, held under the auspices of the World Health Organisation. An alarming trend reported at the conference was the boom of AIDS virus transmission among drug users shearing infected needles. French health official Jean Baptist Brunette said that three out of four intravenous drug users in Italy were carriers of the AIDS virus. The figure in Spain was one out of every two, he said. The rapid spread of the AIDS virus among needle drug addicts is one of the main events of 1986. Studies prevented during the conference [00:06:00] suggest that the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa may be due to the almost totally heterosexual transmission of the disease there. One study showed that more than 60% of prostitutes in Nairobi were carriers of the AIDS virus. The World Health Organisation says 6% of the total population of Africa has been infected by the AIDS virus. And on a lighter note, a spokesperson for an Auckland University Christian group, Peter Stone, said yesterday that a decision to allow private cubicles with beds to be set up in the Auckland University student Union would [00:06:30] result in orgies on campus. He said It's just totally immoral, the sort of sick thing that brings this country down. President of the Student Association Graham Watson said students voted 9 to 1 in favour of dividing part of the student association building into private cubicles with beds for individuals, couples or groups to use for whatever purpose they desire University Reger Warwick Nicco will be looking into the matter. It sounds like fun. That's ABC News. It's a cold, wet, wintery day in Wellington. So let's stay wrapped up in our cubicles with [00:07:00] Tom Robinson. That's out in the cold with Tom Robinson from the north by North West LP, and it's dedicated to all those parliamentarians who want to leave us out in the cold. You're listening to Gay Morning, New Zealand on Stonewall Day 1986. Let's cross now live to Sydney for Australian [00:07:30] gay radio news. Hi, this is Philip and John, with the Australian Gay Radio Information news service bringing you news items culled from Grin's weekly bulletins broadcast during recent weeks in Australia. Due to the postponement of the final reading of the Homosexual Law Reform bill in New Zealand. Sydney gay people staged a demonstration on May 23 in support of gays across the Tasman outside the New Zealand Tourist Bureau. Gay activists [00:08:00] in New Zealand fear that by postponing the third and final reading, a number of parliamentarians may cave in on the question of age of consent, equality with heterosexuals. It is expected that some members of the New Zealand parliament will attempt to raise the consent age to 19. During the crucial second reading, amendments to increase the age from 16 were defeated. Traditionally, the final reading of the bill is merely a formality. But a postponed reading, activists [00:08:30] say, allows detractors of the bill to concentrate on further unsettling the waivers amongst the parliamentarians. The Sydney demonstration, arranged by Kiwi Connection and the Gay Solidarity Group, aimed at encouraging New Zealanders in Australia to write to their wavering parliamentarians and urge them to stick to their original decision to support an age of consent of 16. Wearing a 10 gallon Stetson and VIP dark glasses, Sydney's [00:09:00] gay gospel Oral Richards entertained at a fundraiser supper on Saturday night, May 23 for victimised lesbian teacher Alison Thorne. Gay Oral rounded off his pungent send up of right wing Christian fundamentalism with a series of his own hot gospel songs. Sydney Supporters of the campaign to reinstate Alison Thorne had gathered to show their solidarity with Thorne while she was on a brief visit to Sydney for a free speech seminar at Macquarie University. [00:09:30] Alison Thorne has been neither charged nor found guilty of any crime Yet in November 1983 the director general of education in Victoria transferred her from classroom teaching at Glenroy Technical School in Melbourne to her original office job. All she did was what any individual in Australia is supposed to have the right to do. She signed a press release expressing a political opinion. The press release was issued by the [00:10:00] Gay Legal Rights Coalition, protesting against charges of conspiracy to corrupt public morals laid against members of the paedophile support group. The court found that there was no case to answer and dismissed the police charges against the arrested members of the discussion group. But the media hounded Thorn for her free speech. Defence of the group and the Education Department followed the media's lead. Thorn has taken her case to the Equal Opportunity Board in Melbourne. She [00:10:30] said she won't forget Aah Richards on her and her Sydney supporters as they joined him with rhythmic hand clapping as he sang Give me that Alison Thorne religion. Give me that socialist feminist religion. It's good enough for me. Melbourne's ST Kilda festival has been proposed for an annual gay Maori grant. Adam Carr, vice president of the Victorian AIDS Council has confirmed that discussions have already been held between VAC and the Victorian Tourist Commission. [00:11:00] Carr said it was inappropriate to talk about the details until the idea had been discussed with ST Kilda Council, the Traders Association of ST Kilda and other gay organisations. Carr pointed out that quite clearly he did not think it should be called a Mardi Gras because he said, the gay Mardi Gras is a uniquely Sydney event. The ST Kilda festival, like Sydney's gay Mardi Gras, is held each February. Bill Whittaker of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Committee said that his [00:11:30] committee supported the proposal provided the Melbourne event complemented the Sydney one. He added that he thought it would be great if every capital city could have one. The opening of the 1986 Sydney Film Festival on Friday night, June 6th, was undoubtedly a night to remember. Outside the State Theatre, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and some of their supporters staged a counter demonstration to that of the Roman Catholics, the Lebanese Maronites and the Protestant [00:12:00] evangelicals. Over 500 Christian traditionalists carrying lighted candles were demonstrating against the screening of Jean Luc Godard's film Hail Mary. At the festival, the gay male nuns satirised the Christian protesters by chanting The Queen of heaven, don't pump gas and distributed a leaflet on film censorship. The sisters accused the multinational oil companies of instigating the film. The leaflet also [00:12:30] demanded that full control over censorship should be vested in Sister Mary's third secret of Fatima so he could throw large video parties. The sisters considered this demand reasonable because they had no interest whatsoever in public morals. One of the supportive friends of the gay male nuns was veteran gay rights campaigner John Fox. He carried a double sided placard on High, which he twirled at intervals. On one side. It said Nile and Clancy, don't tell me what films [00:13:00] I see and on the reverse, resist clericalism. An ugly situation developed when Christians began hurling their candles at the sisters. One sister was hit on the forehead, and with blood beginning to trickle down his face, the others decided it was time to leave. As friends shielded them, the sisters shed their habits and melted out of the increasingly violent environment, and that's this edition of the overseas service of grins, the Australian gay radio Information [00:13:30] News Service. Cheers. Well, that was Philip and John coming to you Live from Sydney with the Australian Gay Radio Information news service. They'll be back in a month's time. Gay Morning, New Zealand. It's nine minutes to 12. We've got a track now relevant to today. Stonewall Day 1986. It's from the Broadway musical Laca F, and it's sung by the whole Broadway cast, which includes Jean Barry and George Hearn. Yeah, [00:14:00] great stuff. That's We are what we are from La Caja fo Gay Morning, New Zealand. It's time for what's On in Gay Wellington. The big event this weekend just has to be the gay and lesbian disco Cabaret at the Electric Ballroom opposite McDonald's and Victoria Street. Tonight from 10 p.m. There's stunning lighting, live entertainment, great food and good music. It's not to be missed. The cabaret last weekend [00:14:30] was particularly enjoyable. That's the Electric Ballroom's disco cabaret for lesbians and Gays, Tonight at 10 p.m. and the next Lesbian and Gay Dance University will be on Saturday, the fifth of July. That's next weekend, starting at 9:30 p.m. as usual, and the student union that's Saturday, the fifth of July for the next Lesbian and Gay dance at University. There's a gay and lesbian film festival starting in Wellington in a fortnight's time. It's cunningly disguised as the 15th Wellington Film Festival. But don't let that fool you. The gay films include My Beautiful [00:15:00] Laundrette, a comedy about a couple of May lovers who go into the Laundromat business. I've seen it. It's great. There's before Stonewall, a recollection of what it was like to be gay before 1969. And don't forget, today is Stonewall Day. Desert Hearts, a lesbian film described as a wonderful female adventure. It's had excellent reviews. Evening Dress, a French film starring Gerard de Pao as a burglar in love with a married man and many other films with a gay theme. Don't miss the 15th annual Gay and Lesbian Wellington Film Festival [00:15:30] at the Embassy Theatre. You can book at the Regent Regent Centre and pick up brochures around town. There's still a couple of other films with lesbian or gay themes around town. At the moment, there's Colour Purple at the region, less said, the better. There's Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Paramount Go and see William Hurt, pretending to be a gay man. So much for stereotypes. The next Pink Triangle magazine is due out next weekend to look out for it and listen out for details on it on next week's gay BC There'll be a lesbians and Gays in education conference in Wellington from Friday, the 22nd of August to Sunday, [00:16:00] the 24th of August. If you'd like further details, write to lesbians and gays in education. Post Office box 3264 in Wellington that's post office box 3264 In Wellington, the Gay task Force meets on Wednesday nights at 6 p.m. at the Dorian Club rooms. All lesbians and gay men are welcome. Phone The Lambda Centre 720116 for details. The Campaign for Homosexual Equality meets on Monday nights at 6 p.m. in the Lesbian and Gay Rights Resource Centre. The MP S meet at Parliament this Wednesday night [00:16:30] at 7:30 p.m. to discuss our fate. So if you support an age of consent of 54 go along and cheer them on, and if the age of consent doesn't turn out to be 16, there will be a meeting afterwards. Of all those lesbians and gays who will be voting Labour again. That's in the phone box outside the Courtney Place post office. And finally, the Wellington Gay switchboard is open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. phone. 72869. That's what's on on Gay Wellington, and that's GAC for Stonewall Day, [00:17:00] the 28th of June 1986. So it's goodbye from Peter and Andy. Have a great gay day. We'll go out with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Yeah, and the justice for the I.
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