Mosem Claims Denied (Press, 26 November 1985)
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Summary: Mosem Claims Denied (Press, 26 November 1985)
A spokesman for the National Gay Rights Coalition, Phil Parkinson, has refuted claims made by Noel Mosen, a self-proclaimed former gay activist, who stated in the Christian newspaper "Challenge Weekly" that he was a former leader of the National Gay Rights Coalition. Parkinson clarified that Mosen had never held any office in the organisation and noted that he left New Zealand a year after the Coalition's establishment. Furthermore, Parkinson pointed out Mosen's minimal involvement with the homosexual Metropolitan Community Church in Auckland, which Mosen alleged to have helped create. In the same context, another self-identified 'ex-gay', Gavin Johnstone from Christchurch, had claimed in an "Insight" radio documentary aired on October 13 that he had been active in the gay movement in Dunedin. However, Parkinson, who also serves as the movement's archivist, stated that there were no recollections of Johnstone among their Dunedin contacts, nor could his name be found in the archives of the earliest gay groups in Otago. While Johnstone asserted he had lobbied Parliament for a law reform bill in either 1964 or 1968, Parkinson highlighted that the first actual reform bill only appeared in 1974, and at the time of the supposed lobbying, Johnstone would have only been 17 years old.
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