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We begin this walk tour at Carmen Rue La, a cabaret nightclub on the corner of Harris and Victoria streets. Today, the balcony has been replaced by a corner of Wellington City Library. In the early 19 seventies, Donna de Milo worked at the cabaret as a waitress, and in this recording she recalled some of the entertainment that was on offer. Carmen's was never advertised as a drag show ever. It was a cabaret. It got out that [00:00:30] there were queens that worked there, but no one ever knew who it was. And it was so funny being a waitress because I used to hear it and they go and there was one girl and she used to turn the turn the strobe lights on. And because she had saggy boobs, she had about five kids, and she used to do, um, Tasseling with her boobs. One go one way and one the other go together, up and down all around. And of course, they used to say, There's one. That's one. And they used to pick all the real girls as being the drags they never knew. You [00:01:00] know, um, we used to have sailors from all around the world come in. And they said that New Zealand had the best drags they'd ever seen in their lives because a lot of Maori girls, you see and they're very unspin all those Maori girls, and they just couldn't believe all the girls and how glamorous we were. Follow the walkway up the side of the public library. Keep going until you're looking into the centre of Civic Square. To your right, you'll see City Gallery, formerly the public library, to [00:01:30] your left. You'll see the Wellington Town Hall. Civic Square. Civic Square has been the location for a number of large rainbow gatherings, particularly out in the Square, an annual Rainbow Fair, which began in Newtown in 1986 and moved to Civic Square in 2008. The location was also a focal point for the second Asia Pacific Out Games in 2011 and a rally for marriage Equality in 2012 from Civic Square. The Equality [00:02:00] Rally moved through the city and ended up at Parliament, and this recording participants share their thoughts. My name is Brodie Packer, and I'm very, very for the bill. It's just, you know, a basic human equal right. My name is Josh, and I think that it is an extremely necessary step to the future of properly cutting out homophobia. Hi, my name is Cassie, and I am in support of the bill because I think that is one really important step in gaining fuller quality for people. I'm Yeah, and I think it's fantastic. [00:02:30] I'm a lesbian and I guess it kind of just makes sense, like in terms of not being discriminated against for something that is not wrong or not in your control in any way. And it just I know. I think it's just time. It's time for us to move forward. 68, 82468 Not this City gallery. [00:03:00] In 1995 the gallery hosted a controversial retrospective of US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which was seen by 45,000 people the same year the gallery hosted an exhibition of Pierre, which carried a censor warning in the mid 19 eighties when the building was part of the public library. A lower ground floor auditorium was used for community meetings to discuss homosexual law reform. In this recording, Rod McLeod Morrison recounts one of those meetings we had [00:03:30] the chief of police and a bishop or two and a couple of MP S, and it was very full and all of these people were getting up and saying If you don't vote for the bill, we're going to vote you out of office. If you don't do this, we're going to say this, So make certain you don't get your job back again And I got rather annoyed with all of this and stood up and said that we had to stop threatening that we won't get anywhere threatening people and demanding people. But we had to educate people [00:04:00] that we had to spend time to educate people, that we were also people, that we also had feelings, that we also had emotions and that we also had principles and morals, the result of which, after a little speech like that, I got booed and asked to leave as I was negative to the cause of the homosexual law reform Wellington Town Hall. The town hall has hosted numerous [00:04:30] artistic, political and celebratory events to do with Rainbow communities. In 2011, the town hall was the hub venue for the second Asia Pacific Out Games and human rights conference. And in the mid 19 eighties, both anti and pro homosexual law reform meetings were held there. And this recording, Julie Glazner, recalls an anti homosexual law reform meeting in 1985. It was a rally which was organised by the anti gay um, forces. [00:05:00] So So we arrived there and on the stage where the speakers, they just stood up and said How revolting gays were that we caused AIDS, that, um, you know, it was disgusting, Um, filthy and perverted. Um, And so it was just really awful. And people were sitting and yelling, and I was sitting next to Maxine, and I just felt like we weren't actually doing it, so nobody was actually seeing us be gay if you know what I mean or be lesbian. So I said to Max, [00:05:30] Let's just let's have a kiss. So we just stood up and then we just really had a very big, long kiss, and it was just fantastic. There was a TV camera at the time, and they focused on us. Um, that's what we wanted. We wanted to have us at the forefront to have us as the focus of that meeting. not the vile things that they were saying. Turn around to face the harbour to your left. You'll [00:06:00] see the Green Lawn, the former site of circa Theatre and beyond that Harris Street, circa Theatre. The top twins performed here in 1983. Harvey Fierstein's Torch song trilogy was performed here in 1985 and Beautiful Thing in 1994. The theatre subsequently moved to the waterfront by Te Papa Harris Street. On a night in July 1975 a police officer questioned MP [00:06:30] Colin Moyle, who was lingering around a well known cruising spot in Harris Street. The incident eventually led to his resignation from Parliament. In this recording, former MP Marilyn Waring talks about the use of homosexuality as a political weapon. Peter Tapsell was addressing the Waikato Division of the Labour Party, and he got front page headlines by saying that the government's policy on women was being run by bar and lesbian. [00:07:00] When the Raglan electorate disappeared and altogether and I had to begin again and when the electorate, uh, and was challenged by four other men, their their main quote whenever they wrote those little paragraph about yourself. I have a normal family. So there was a lot about, you know, you could have a representative who had a normal family life on [00:07:30] the night the government fell in 1984 after Muldoon, it had quite a lot of brandy. He called me a perverted little liar. Walk towards the harbour over the bridge and down the left hand steps to Frank Kitts Park Lagoon. In the 19 nineties, the lagoon was the site for Beacons of Hope, a memorial ceremony for those who had died from AIDS related conditions. The memorial was based upon the annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, [00:08:00] a service that has been held since May 1983. In this recording, Bill Logan recalls the first memorial ceremony at the lagoon. Well, Richard Ben organised the first, and that was amazing because he made these huge beacons. Kerosene soaked on big poles. And they were. They were big and spectacular and bold. And [00:08:30] there's something about fire and very primal. I am. I wrote a list, Um, of the people I knew who died the first man I loved guys that I partied with, young man. I saw coming out people who lived in our house [00:09:00] and were our friends. I guess that it's difficult to know what effects these things have on you because you don't know what the alternative was. You don't know what life would have been. Walk into the waterfront and follow the harbour pathway towards the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, you will find circa [00:09:30] theatre just before you get to Papa. The waterfront parade route has seen a number of rainbow related parades, including the Love Parade in 2016 and the Opening Parade in the second Asia Pacific Out Games and Human Rights Conference in 2011. In this recording, participants Han hi and Sumit board look forward to 30 years. I came out well over 30 odd years ago. Back then, it was in hiding. We would get raped, we get beaten and you'd have to [00:10:00] pass as a straight person wherever you went or get married. I'm hoping in 30 years time that my grandchildren, if any of them are, are gay or transgender or transitioning that they can turn around and say thanks, then at least you were brave enough to say that it was OK and at least you were brave enough to say that I'm OK for who I am and that you accepted me. Life is a joyful journey, and that joyful journey always has and will have obstacles. What is [00:10:30] important is a spirit to not be defeated by obstacles and to continue struggling. The opportunities that struggles provide to live a fulfilling life should not be missed. And we should tackle our obstacles head on and fight and survive, circa Theatre in 2014. The production Rita and Douglas was performed here by Jennifer Wood Leland and pianist Michael Houston. [00:11:00] It explored the complex relationship between composer Douglas Lilburn and painter Rita Angus a few years earlier. This was a venue for Cathy Downs's play The Case of Katherine Mansfield. In this recording, Alison Lowry reads from Mansfield's journal about her relationship with Edith Kathleen Bendall in June 19. 07. She writes about an episode with Edith Kathleen Bend at the Beach Holiday Cottage in Days Bay, she writes, I feel more powerfully all those so term sexual impulses with [00:11:30] her than I have with any men. I feel that to lie with my head on her breast is to feel what life can hold pillowed against her clinging to her hands her face against mine. I am a child, a woman and more than a half man. We lay down together still silently she every now and then pressing me to her, kissing me my head on her breasts, her hands around my body stroking me lovingly. What an experience! And when we returned to town, Small wondered that I could not sleep, but tossed to and fro and yearned [00:12:00] and realised 1000 things which had been obscure. Oh, Oscar, Am I peculiarly susceptible to sexual impulse? I must be, I suppose. But I rejoice now. Each time I see her, I want her to put her arms around me and hold me against her. I think she wants to too. But she is afraid and custom hedges her, and I feel we shall go away again. Te Papa. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa holds numerous [00:12:30] rainbow related treasures, including the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was gifted to the museum in 2012. The museum also has from rue the photographs of Brian Brake and an exhibition featuring homosexual law reform material and more. In this recording, Nicky, Eddie and Megan Butcher talk about Robin's panel on the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt. First and foremost, um, the little map there. Waiheke Island, which is in the Gulf [00:13:00] of New Zealand, is where he was born on the second of May 1958. So this year, he would have been held 4. 54 yesterday. And I was just having a discussion with Megan last night. Um, about Well, I wonder what he would have been as a four year old man. Um, but, you know, time stopped for him at 33 and that's how we remember him at the age of 33. So, um, and as a family, um, we loved him unconditionally. And, um, [00:13:30] every single day, he walks with us and this today, here at te Papa, and I'm feeling very honoured and very privileged, and he would so so want to be here. He would just yeah, really appreciate the many, many layers of history that that lay behind these panels. Um, human rights, the whole lot. You know, politics just so much lays behind these quilts for mom to say that he walks with us all the time. Literally. He does, because I actually had I've got a red ribbon tattooed on my leg [00:14:00] and a memo to Uncle Rob So which I had done a done a couple of years ago. So yeah, and now return to the waterfront and walk towards what was formerly the overseas passenger terminal. The terminal was the site of the first Devotion Dance Party in December 1991. Like hero in Auckland, devotion became a festival with parties, a parade and other activities celebrating rainbow diversity. The terminal has now been converted to apartments. [00:14:30] In this recording, Hamish Aladi talks about how the party got its name. We were all sitting around on Mark Harrison's bed in road, in the house out there, and and we were trying to figure a name for this event and because it was going to be by the ocean. Um, at the overseas terminal, we were trying to think of something that would rhyme off by the ocean. So then it became devotion by the ocean and then thank God, be dropped by the ocean, and it just became devotion, and it became devoted [00:15:00] to whatever it was that you wanted to be devoted to, so you could be devoted to hedonism or safe sex or love, you know? And it was really had a lovely, uh, spirit that kind of captivated the imagination of people, and they felt a part of anyway, um, it was a woman that one of them, you know what's going on. We're all the men, you know. We're all doing all the work. And I said, For goodness sake, haven't you realised they're all dead or they're dying? Our community leaders are dying, and it was very much a case. You know, everyone. [00:15:30] Our brightest, our most fabulous Had the virus from the overseas passenger terminal follow her street away from the harbour. This will take you alongside Waitangi Park and on to Oriental Parade. Waitangi Park. The inaugural out in the park was held here in 2016. The celebration grew out of the annual out in the square, which in turn grew out of the Lesbian and Gay Fair. First [00:16:00] held at Newtown School in 1986 during the homosexual law reform. A fair for a fair law in this recording, Georgina buyer addresses the 2015 fair which was held in Guney Street due to bad weather conditions at the park I never thought that I would see a day when we could come together as a community and share our fabulousness, uh, with our city and our country. And I am so proud and humble really [00:16:30] to have been one amongst many who fought the good fight to find us here, sharing who we are and being loved for it. I think, um, I, of course, have been fortunate enough to be a representative, not only of the but in parliament, but of our gay community and particularly our transgender community for me. And while we have substantially gained more rights than we thought we could [00:17:00] earn, uh, there is still some way to go, uh, for some of our sector of our community and we ask you to stand in solidarity with us as we continue. But more importantly, since we have been a country that has led the way in so many ways, uh, we need to help our brothers and sisters and others around the world who are not enjoying the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here. Follow Oriental parade inland. Waitangi [00:17:30] Park will be on your right cross to the other side of the road at the Cable Street Traffic Island. Keep following Oriental Parade as it changes into Kent Terrace. Bat's Theatre. Betts Theatre has seen a variety of rainbow related productions, including Confessions of a Drag Queen Corner, 4 a.m. in Cuba, a play about the hate murder of Wellington teenager Jeff Whittington in 1999. And the Youth Collaborative Theatre piece that's so gay in 2012. [00:18:00] In this recording, participants of that so talk about their production. We've talked about having a a gift day at to share. These are and these are our stories and it's not to go. These are our stories. Listen, cry here, laugh there. Whatever you know, all we're doing is opening up our hearts and our minds and sharing that what we are gaining from this play is more what we're giving to everyone. Everyone else with this play. So we've all had a chance to share our stories [00:18:30] with each other, which gave us the opportunity to know each other better, understand each other better, and that's in turn what we're going to give to the audience these same stories in a more dramatised way. But the essence is still there, and it's just that we want people to know that we're out there, that there are queer youth who live through these experiences that we have directly opposite Batts Theatre is the Taj Mahal toilet, and on the other side of that [00:19:00] Downstage Theatre on Cambridge Terrace, you can cross the Downstage Theatre at the intersection of Bank Street and Kent Terrace. Taj Mahal Toilet. The public toilet opened in 1929 and was part of the regular beat for anonymous sex. The site is now a bar and restaurant. In this recording, Denny talks about police tactics used to entrap men. When I saw playing close policemen, they were either extremely shy gay [00:19:30] men. And of course, that's probable, too, but not very good at doing their, um, entrapment. They would send hunky men. They just didn't know how to behave. You could almost pick them because they'd play a little bit, but they wouldn't get a hard on. Now they also send young boys. I'm very fortunate, but young boys have never appealed to me. And so, um, I've left when there's been younger people with a police officer, how [00:20:00] far would they go to have to prove something um I think you would have had to have touched them or attempted to offer them oral sex or something. If you were seeing masturbating and actually came in a toilet. That was an arrestable offence. And I think they looked over the top, which always amused me. You know, I wonder how long they watched people before they decided. Oh, well, we've had enough for now. Downstage Theatre [00:20:30] Downstage Theatre has seen many rainbow related performances, including Angels in America, Shopping and Fucking Boys in the Band and locally created works Black Faggots, Drum Drag, Love Lock's Dream Run A Long Undressing and Mates and Lovers, Based on the Book by Chris Brickle. In this recording, playwright Ronald Rea Nelson and producer Aha Talk about experiencing homophobia during the production of mates and lovers. We were doing publicity photo shoot. [00:21:00] Um, so we've been using a certain venue that I'm not gonna name Anyhow, the actors are passionately kissing, you know, undressing and stomp stomp out comes angry staff member who was not happy. And, you know, it was really interesting for me to witness. I know you hear about things like that where people are still hold on to their homophobic Oh, I. I thought it was a bit of a homophobic kind of job that she had that that's what really triggered it off. But it was really interesting to witness that to me, bringing it all back home. I mean, and it's like homosexuality is like an intellectual [00:21:30] thing. Yeah, they deserve equal rights. And yeah, they deserve to have civil unions and they deserve that. But if just keep it up out of our face, we don't want to see that stuff like it's dirty. Or just do that in your bedroom kind of stuff, you know? And and everybody thinks we've won the battle. Everything's hunky dory and homo land. Well, it ain't. Kids are killing themselves. Left and right, uh, committing suicide. Kids are getting beat up in school. We face discrimination in ways that we're not even aware [00:22:00] of from Downstage Theatre. Turn to face Courtney Place and walk to the tripod sculpture. From there begin to walk along Courtney Place. You are now travelling back towards Civic Square, Paramount Theatre. The Paramount has hosted the mostly annual outtakes, a real queer film festival since the mid 19 nineties in 2015 the theatre premiered New Zealand's first lesbian Web series, Pot Luck, written and [00:22:30] directed by Ne Simons. In this recording, this Simons talks about stereotypes and film. I was so sick of watching stereotypical portrayals of lesbian that I didn't connect with. I didn't understand. I got frustrated with I got angry about sometimes you know, that that it almost paralysed me into writing my own lesbian characters because I was so scared of repeating, you know, kind of poor representations that I'd seen from other people. [00:23:00] And it is, um, one of the things that that I feel like I need to push, You know that I do. I try to push anyway in order to kind of get there, because otherwise you do get left with stereotypes. You get left with these people that are safe. You know, the part of the reasons that we see so many types is because they are safe, you know, they're a safe representation. They're an accepted representation of a certain kind of person or a certain kind of moment. Photos, Space Gallery photos [00:23:30] Space Gallery has exhibited a number of Rainbow artists, including photographers Mark Bey and Jack Lynch in 2015, Jack did a photographic essay entitled Butch On Butch. In this recording, Van Little, one of the participants talks about the language of identity. It's funny because I actually feel a bit like a fraud in terms of I don't know, that I identify as Butch as such. And then and then I sort of have to think about is that kind of butch phobia? [00:24:00] Is that you know, like, where does what is that? Um, because when I came out, it was you had to be one or the other and if you were or you had to be fair. But, um, if you were, you were quite marginalised, actually, and there was a lot of crap that kind of went around women who did look straight. But I've always identified as a tomboy. I always and you know, there is a continuum. Um, so I'm kind of at the at the boyish end of it, and, [00:24:30] um, androgynous and tomboy and and I've always been attracted to masculine kind of women. Yeah, and then it makes me think about what is masculine. And, you know, we all have both, you know, and all different shades of of that stuff. So I thought, you know, it's it's good for me to to do this sort of stuff just to have more of a self exploration, I guess. Body positive. Drop in centre body positive A peer support organisation for people living with [00:25:00] HIV A. I DS established a Wellington Drop-in centre here in 2013, closing in 2015 just around the corner at 45 Tory Street. Now Chow was the location of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation's Athena Centre, which opened in August 1997. The centre is now located in Willis Street. In this recording, Kate Leslie, founding chair of the foundation, talks about the early years of AIDS in New Zealand. People were just so frightened and had [00:25:30] all sorts of fears and worries. And what was our task was to get the facts clearly and present them in a way that we could say No, this is People had noted that HIV was floating through the air or you were going to catch it from cups and saucers or shaking hands or the swimming pool or, um, food whatever in socially, uh, really [00:26:00] tragic times as well I can I can think of one funeral. Where was a young person had died and the whole funeral was addressed to Auntie and the sad loss of her nephew. And there was sitting the partner of 15, 20 years, um, totally ignored, never once mentioned, never acknowledged and so wrong and so awful and so bruising that this was with galvanising ourselves a bit more to, uh to We [00:26:30] have to do better than this. And now cross the Tory Street Courtney Place intersection and continue walking Saint James Theatre. The top twins, Douglas Wright and Michael, have all performed at the Saint James. The Theatre is also the home of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. One of its dancers, Warren Douglas, is remembered of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt. In this recording from 1993 Nicky Eddie talks about the history of the quilt. [00:27:00] The quilt presents a human face behind the statistics, and the New Zealand initiative comes from the American Names Project, which was founded in 1985. Our first panel was created for a man called Peter KASPER and was displayed for the first time World AIDS Day for First of December 1988 in Wellington 1988. Now what is the number of quilts that you have now here in New Zealand? 72 panels That represents 128 [00:27:30] names of people we have lost to AIDS here in New Zealand. What what motivates people to do. A panel to make a panel to make a panel is a statement of unconditional love. It puts a human face behind the statistics of AIDS here in New Zealand or internationally. New Zealand is one of 27 initiatives around the world for quilt projects. Now just beyond the Saint James Theatre is the Courtney Place men's Toilet. Built in 1911 [00:28:00] the underground public toilet was part of the regular beat for anonymous sex. The toilet had two sets of stairs, which led from the street level down to a number of cubicles. The site is now part of a pizzeria, and this recording Denny talks about being arrested in the toilet in the 19 seventies. It was a freezing cold night, absolutely freezing cold, But I had removed my trousers and left them in the car. So, in fact I only had the coach and the mid drift top on. I was [00:28:30] arrested. The charge was, um, allowing someone to perform an indecent act on me. And I was questioned and questioned and questioned because they wanted to know who I was with, and I had no idea of his name. And of course, he was also being questioned at the same time. Did we know others? Was that a place to go? Those were the types of things. Of course they knew that there was. That's why they arrested us There. Was that quite common for police to that? [00:29:00] Yeah. I thought I'd been set up by this other man, but no, he was also caught. But we were then separated, and I don't ever remember seeing him again. Now cross the Taranaki Street Courtney Place intersection and walk into a park. The park has been the gathering point for many rallies and protests. In the mid 19 eighties, it was the scene for a large pro homosexual law reform rally. In this recording, Glenda Gale talks about speaking to the crowd. [00:29:30] There was a big march, and, uh, I in fact, spoke at the end of that. It was a march that went right through the city and ended up at Pigeon Park. And there were thousands of people there. And I did speak around this whole thing of freedom of, um, you know, having the right to be who we are. I mean, I think the whole thing that sometimes people don't understand or don't remember that sure, the legalisation of male homosexuality was very important. But there was also this human rights aspect [00:30:00] because leading up to those times, people were afraid. And I can remember being really afraid like when you went to get a flat, you know? Did you look too queer? What would they say? You know how and when you heard people. I think the thing that I found really quite tormenting was when you heard some of these absolutely horrendous things that were said about us things like, You know, these people should go back to the gutter where they belong or gay people should be killed. Now these are extreme views. But when you hear them, I mean [00:30:30] it either probably makes some people run away. But for others, it makes makes us angry. Directly opposite to Arrow Park is the opera house Ellie Jack Bo's opera about Ruy Ellie premiered at the Opera House in 1998. The theatre has also hosted the Queen of the Whole Universe in 2011, a slightly queer beauty pageant and this recording visit the queen of the whole universe makeup room Because there's such a large crew 35 [00:31:00] drag queens, to be exact, we do the makeup progressively, so in the room we have brow block stations. We've got a base station and then you go through and have your cheeks and lips done. And then you come to the last section, which is eyes and brows. 35 drag queens. How long does that take? Well, we've got three hours and there's other things thrown on top of us as well. We've got muscle boys to do up. We've got Cleopatra. We've got somebody that needs to be made really dark. So yeah, it's [00:31:30] not just standard makeup. It's so funny. Um, I originally was going to be an Act two girl this year, and I was going to be Miss Candyland. Hey, y'all. My name's canny KKK. Lick your lollipop. I'm gonna make you call my friends in Texas and just say what you just said and I'm gonna hang up and not explain it. As we begin to wrap up this tour walk from the opera house towards [00:32:00] Lower Cuba Street, Lower Cuba Street has seen a number of rainbow related events. In the mid 19 eighties, there was a pro homosexual law reform march, and in 2015, the Love Parade marched from Civic Square to Guney Street, and this recording an onlooker to the Love Parade, reflects on her own family experience. My daughter's gay, but my son is very anti gay. He's claims to be a Christian, and so it [00:32:30] was really interesting at a few years ago when they were doing that march and my daughter and her friends were watching from a house and she said it was quite frightening all the hate that was out there. But it has changed, you know? I mean, when she was just a kid, long before she recognised that she was gay, or long before I recognised that she was gay, girls would bash her up. She'd be 12, you know, it was just horrific, [00:33:00] But the worst damage that has ever been done to my daughter has been done by her own family. So, you know, I just hope that when these people's families can see the solidarity that they're, they're they're not hurting anybody. They're just being they're just being that maybe they'll come to an acceptance. No. Yeah. [00:33:30] Lower Cuba Street is a shared pedestrian and car area. Walk to the Michael Fowler Centre at the end of the street next to the town hall. The Michael Fowler Centre is our last tour location. It's the home venue of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audiences have heard performances from New Zealand composers such as Douglas Lilburn, Claire Cohen, Gareth Farr, John Elmley, Samuel Holloway, Alex Taylor and Jack Bo. In this recording, Jack Bo reflects on Carmen Rupe during the [00:34:00] writing of the Symphonic Songs of Dancers and Desire in Carmen Rue. What struck me when reading Carmen's book is the fearlessness of it that that we especially in a in in generations when it was illegal, to to indulge in sex with the same gender, of course, one had to be secretive. It it was very exciting, of course, and it made the the chase and the the triumph even more delicious. But the fact is that one [00:34:30] could be entrapped, one could go to prison and III I met people who had had, um, aversion therapy, you know, making you vomit at the thought of of, of having sex with your own kind or, um, shock treatment. I mean, these things happened in those days. So this is the world that that Carmen grew up and and look what she did. She said, I'm here and I'm me and like it or lump it and and totally brazen Fearless. The [00:35:00] lesson that we learned from her that, you know, we've got one life and the worst thing we can do is is to have fears and anxieties that we have to embrace life and be who we are. And so ends this walk tour, thanks to all the people who've contributed to pride NZ dot com and thank you for taking the tour.
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