The title of this recording is "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2024 retrospective". It is described as: Kāpiti Gay host Tony Reed talks to PrideNZ founder Gareth Watkins about some of the significant people and events recorded in 2024 by PrideNZ. It was recorded in Coast Access Radio on the 1st March 2025. This is a recording of a broadcast and features the voices of Awhi Marshall, David Miller, Denis Aberhart, Dennis Shepard, Gareth Watkins, Grant Robertson, Judy Shepard, Karen Morris, Kerryn Pollock, Nicole Skews-Poole and Tony Reed. Their names are spelt correctly, but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 30 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the broadcast. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: Kāpiti Gay host Tony Reed talks to PrideNZ founder Gareth Watkins about some of the significant people and events recorded in 2024 by PrideNZ. The content in the recording covers the 2020s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: The retrospective programme originally aired on Coast Access Radio, featuring host Tony Reed in conversation with Gareth Watkins, founder of PrideNZ. Together, they reflect on some of the most significant moments captured by PrideNZ throughout 2024, providing an overview of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities during the year. The recording blends commemoration, activism, cultural preservation, and historical reflection, offering a richly layered snapshot of a pivotal year. The retrospective opens with a poignant remembrance: the 60th anniversary of the death of Charles Allan Aberhart, a gay man killed in 1964. Held in Christchurch’s Hagley Park, the memorial was the first time the Aberhart whānau had spoken publicly about Allan. Speakers at the event, including Denis Aberhart and Nicole Skews-Poole, conveyed both the enduring pain of this hate crime and a renewed commitment to honour Allan through the establishment of a fund supporting rainbow communities. This tribute highlighted both historical injustice and contemporary efforts toward restorative justice and community healing. The programme then turns to 2024's Pride events in Wellington, notably the annual Pride Hīkoi, which focused on themes of indigenous empowerment, upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and solidarity with Palestine. Awhi Marshall’s address during the event encouraged attendees to use their grief as a catalyst for activism. Marshall’s speech exemplified how Pride events increasingly serve as platforms connecting local and global justice movements. The broadcast also included audio from chants and public speeches that underlined the political dimensions of the gathering. Healthcare access, particularly in relation to gender-affirming treatments, was another major theme of 2024. The broadcast discussed rising concerns over governmental threats to limit access to puberty blockers, connecting this to the international spread of the controversial Cass Review. Figures such as Brian Tamaki and former ACT MP Stephen Franks were mentioned as part of a broader conservative backlash. Watkins and Reed considered the importance of public broadcasting and documentary work in preserving and informing public discourse on such issues. One of the more intimate interviews included in the retrospective was with Grant Robertson, reflecting on his retirement from national politics in 2024. Robertson offered a personal account of his political journey as a rainbow-identifying MP, including challenges faced during the 2013 and 2014 Labour Party leadership bids. Robertson's remarks explored themes of internalised homophobia, stereotyping, and the difference between tolerance and genuine acceptance. International connections were further emphasised through an interview with Judy and Dennis Shepard, parents of Matthew Shepard. Their reflections on transforming grief into activism - through the founding of the Matthew Shepard Foundation - provided a global context for ongoing LGBTQIA+ struggles. They also shared a personal poem written by Matthew, which was recently featured in a choral work performed for the first time in Aotearoa by the Wellington and Christchurch Youth Choirs. The retrospective also celebrated the legacy of the late Georgina Beyer, whose personal taonga were formally gifted to Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum. Karen Morris, Beyer’s sister, recounted her first meeting with Georgina, and described the significance of having Beyer’s belongings preserved and displayed. This moment reinforced the importance of tangible heritage in telling rainbow histories. Another segment focused on the Rainbow List Project, led by Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand. The project integrates rainbow narratives into official heritage listings, with places like the Duigan building in Whanganui recognised for their connection to historical events involving queer individuals. Pollock emphasised that even seemingly small or fleeting stories are essential to constructing a fuller, more inclusive historical narrative. The programme concluded with audio from New Zealand’s inaugural World AIDS Day Parliamentary Breakfast in December 2024. David Miller, an early leader in HIV/AIDS work both domestically and internationally, reflected on the courage of those who responded to the epidemic at its height. Miller acknowledged the historic contributions of Aotearoa's rainbow communities, from law reform to harm reduction, in reducing stigma and safeguarding public health. Altogether, the 2024 retrospective captures the richness, complexity, and resilience of rainbow communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, as seen through the lens of PrideNZ’s archival work. It is both a record of achievements and a call to remain vigilant, visible, and engaged in the ongoing struggle for equality and justice. The full transcription of the recording begins:  Hello, my name is Tony Reed. Welcome to GAYA radio program for L-G-B-T-I people and their friends on Coast Access Radio 1 0 4 0. 7 FM and other access radio stations around New Zealand. My guest today is becoming a bit of an annual fixture. Uh, Gareth Watkins, accompanied by his husband, Roger Smith, is going to give us a selection of the recordings. He's, um, he's made on Pride, NZ, um, for the, uh, for the year 2024, if you remember that. The other Tony that was before, that, was before Trump became president. So it all sounds a bit, it all feels a bit distant now, but fi. Yeah. Anyway, welcome back and, uh, Lou, uh, uh, let's get on with the, with the recording. Thank, thank you so much. Well, 2024 was a big year for Pride nz. We did, uh, quite a few recordings, uh, mainly around the Wellington region. Um, and, uh, so there was a lot, uh, of choice to select, uh, from, um, the first clip. Is back in January, 2024. Um, and this was on the 23rd of January and it was a memorial held in Hackley Park in Christchurch to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Charles Allen Ahart. So he was known to his friends and family as Alan, and he was brutally killed by a group of teenagers in 1964. All of the teenagers were later found not guilty of his death. So this memorial was the first time the Aber Hart family had spoken publicly about Alan. Oh. Uh, which is quite, uh, remarkable given that it was 60 years. Um, and it was also the first time for many of them to actually go to Hagley Park where he, he died. It was also a chance for them to announce a new fund that was to be created in his name to support rainbow communities. So here's, uh, Dennis Berhan speaking at the memorial, and it's followed by a little, uh, interview extract with another relative Nicole SKU's pool. So on this day, 60 years ago, uncle Alan was killed by six youths who were all arrested by seven o'clock the next morning, they admitted they'd come here to attack a queer well, they achieved their goal and because of the beating that Uncle Allen had. Here he died, which we are grateful for today's blessing from the local iwi. It's brought us together as a wana. It's brought all these people here to, it's even got the mirror away from his digger and from the office and things, which is, which is really great and in this great city of Christchurch that we've come here under these trees where Uncle Allen was killed and to remember that, but. The people here are looking to make a difference. And I think that's what the important thing, and that's what Uncle Alan would love. The fact the people are trying to make a difference out of a horrible situation. Um, for most of the family, and I've been in Christchurch almost since Adam was a cowboy, but for 40 years I moved here. I have not been here. So for me and for our hanau to do that, it's special. To be able to come and do that. This man didn't make a difference and he will continue to make a difference if we remember him. If you had a chance to say something to Alan now, what would that be? Um, that I'm proud to be his ancestor in both blood and in the queer community. That I'm really proud of him and that I know on some level he was proud too actually, and that I'm sorry that it took his loss of life for so much change to have occurred, but that in his name, so much positive change and agitation and struggle came forth and that every queer person has benefited from that ever since. The memorial event for Alan Ahart also highlighted that hate crimes towards rainbow community members are still happening. And one way to draw attention to such hate is through continued visibility and protest. In March, 2024, the annual Pride Koi took place in Wellington and marched from Civic Square to Parliament. And this time, uh, participants marched for three things, uh, mana, aka Tapi, empowering indigenous rainbow identities, toy two to Ity honoring the Treaty and Free Palestine. And this is, uh, really highlighting the connection between local and global justice issues. So at the end of the Koi they had a, um, a range of speakers in Parliament grounds, and one of them was AFI Marshall, who we'll hear from next. Um, and that's followed by just some of the chants, uh, that we heard during the Koi. This beautiful space here surrounded by your WWA is a safe space to grieve grief for Palestine. For the tens of thousands of PE that we've lost grieve for the land that we've lost, that's been destroyed, that's been bombed, grieve for our who should be here with us today, but aren't grieve for next Benedict and all those lost to transphobic and queer phobic violence. Take the time you need grieve for the loss of our progress under this. Grieve, cry, feel, but then fight. Fight like hell. Feel your grief in its entirety. Don't let it immobilize you forever. Use it to fuel you. Let it radicalize you, not lead you to hopelessness. We owe it to Palestinians, to Maori, to future generations not to despair and give up re Right. Like human rights, right? Like human rights, Dave. Right? Like human rights. Right. Human rights. Rights. Right. Like human rights, right? Human rights supremacy. And the focus of this year's Pride Heco, which is on the 23rd of March in Wellington, is on access to gender affirming healthcare. And it's particularly in light of the government's push to restrict access to puberty blockers. I. Yes. In one sense our timing isn't quite right because there, although we mention this, you haven't yet got, um, a lot of, um, a lot of stuff on this. Um, as unfortunately predicted. The dreaded cast report, which I did a full program on a few months ago, um, is spreading throughout the, uh, world and even countries that seemed initially to be very critical of that report. Like Australia and New Zealand are beginning to wobble. Uh, that will be an important development, but, but one that's really coming after we've been able to record. There's also, uh, vaguely related to this is Brian Tamaki, um, as well as one of our old enemies from ACT in the olden days as an ACT mp, Stephen Franks, who is, uh, uh, joining in on this. Uh, so this is all, uh, this is all building up and I won't even mention the United States, which is just horrendous at the moment. But, uh, but it might be a good opportunity for you to do a special during the year on these specific topics interrelated. Absolutely. I mean, there's so much on this year, um, and, and we're just coming into the pride season in, in Wellington. Um, I think this gets broadcast a bit later than, uh, when Pride will have finished. Um, but yes, there, there there'll be headquarters parades, uh, discussions. Um, yeah, a lot going on. Um, good. Yeah. Well, um, speaking of politics, and last year, I was fortunate to interview Grant Robertson on his retirement as a labor member of Parliament. So Grant, grant began working at Parliament in 2001 before becoming a member of Parliament in 2008, and then he would later go on to become the Minister of Finance and DPD Prime Minister. In this interview, he highlights some of the major social changes in his lifetime and shared some personal experiences as a rainbow politician. I was very fortunate that I, my involvement in the Labor Party and then in turn in becoming an MP was here in Wellington Central. And, you know, I remember one of my friends, most joked, it's the only electorate in the country where it's an advantage to be gay. Um, I think that's quite true, but you know, like, I think, I think it, it was never an issue. Here locally, ever, um, which was great. Then subsequently, when I did run to be the leader of the party and by the stage where, you know, 20 13, 20 14, there's no doubt that in the first campaign, particularly in 2013, it was an issue. Um, and it was raised in different ways. Some, some overt, some covert, but clearly an issue. Um, that was the, you know, is New Zealand ready for a gay prime minister? Yes, of course. And you know, like the, the stupidity of that even being a question, but, you know, I, I have this memory of that. So the 2013 Labor Leadership Campaign, we did like about 12 or 13 public meetings around the country with labor members. And we did one down in Christchurch in 2013. And I remember I felt quite pleased with how it performed that night. I, I thought I gave a really good speech and I answered the questions well, and I got a good reaction from the audience. And there was this couple. Gay couple who came up to me, who I knew said, oh, you were so good. You were wonderful. And then just sort of as we were partying, they said, oh, we're not actually gonna vote for you though to be the leader of the Labor Party. And I said, sorry. And they said, oh, we just, we're just not sure that, you know, for labor, having a gay leader would be good for us and blah, blah, blah. And I was, you know, devastated by that because clearly there was an internalization of homophobia there. Um, we don't embrace people's diversity. And I make this, I've talked about this probably with you more than once. I don't like the word tolerance because to me the word tolerance sounds like you're putting up with something, you're tolerating it. Whereas I think as a country, we will be so much better off if we embrace diversity and be that. Sexuality or gender or race or whatever it is. And that's kind of makes me even sadder that, yeah, you can be pigeonholed, you can be boxed up. And in many ways, I guess that's one of the things I've tried to do over the years is not allow that to happen too much for me and even right at the end of being a, a minister for years. Every now and then it would pop up saying, is Grant Robinson really gay? You know, this kind of thing. It's like, so, you know, it's sort of, I've tried in a way to be the opposite of, you know, I was in the crazy nights in the gay rugby team that started here, tried to be a part of trying to break some of those stereotypes down. But you're absolutely right. It's, it's really sad that, that people can't judge a whole person and, um, well not judge, but, you know, accept a whole person, but rather judge them for one aspect. And that's Grant. Robertson and Grant retired from national politics in March, 2024 and is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago. Well, in May last year, the US Embassy in New Zealand hosted Judy and Dennis Shepherd. Judy and Dennis are the parents of Matthew Shepherd, who was brutally killed in Wyoming USA in October, 1998. The killing really resonated with rainbow communities right around the world. And after Matthew's death, Judy and Dennis formed the Matthew Shepherd Foundation to embrace the dignity and equality of all people. Well, I was incredibly fortunate to, um, be able to interview Judy and Dennis and asked how they balanced, talking about Matthew publicly, which I've done for the last 20 plus years, uh, while holding onto private memories of him. And it begins with, uh, Dennis Shepherd. Everybody talked about Matthew and we talked about Matt. That's the difference. Matt is our son or brother or friend. Matthew is somebody that represents the L-G-B-T-Q community and the violence and lack of respect and equality. So we are able to, to keep Matt separate in a way, by talking about Matt. Um, in a way it also helped us grieve. 'cause after we lost Matt, I went back to Saudi Arabia to work. Judy stayed in Wyoming to start the foundation and our younger son went back to boarding school. So we never did get to grieve together. And I think for us it was probably beneficial that way because even when you're together, you really aren't grieving together. You all have your, everybody has their separate memories and, and reasons for. Mourning the loss of that person with personal or, or professional, whatever it might be. So by talking about Matt as we do, using him as example of what needs to be done, not just in America but around the world, when we travel to try and make it better for everybody, uh, it keeps him alive. Um. Keeps him fresh where he wouldn't be otherwise. So we always have Matt with us. One of the really lovely things I came across online was a, uh, a poem written by Matt called I Am, and just reading that I, I get glimpses of his personality and I'm wondering, can you talk to me about the poem and then possibly read it for me? Uh, we found, uh. After Matt passed, we collected his things from his apartment. We found several. Um, Matt was not a very organized person and we found. Many notebooks where he had made, uh, jots of thoughts and, and I guess some people are considering it poetry. I'm, I consider it scribblings. I consider it journaling because that's the way he journaled. He, he just talking about life and him would write down things as they came to him and not any kind of organized pattern. So, um, I don't know if he, uh, these are his own thoughts at some point in time in his life. So the poem begins, I am sensitive. I am honest. I am sincere. I am not a pest. I am my own person. I am warm. I am funny, nice, hopeful, energetic, giving, understanding, sometimes selfish, sincere, generous, irritable, gay, cute, interesting, intelligent, poor, humble, and outgoing. I am Matthew Shepherd. I am Matthew Shepherd. That's, uh, Dennis and Judy Shepherd Reading. I Am a poem written by their son, Matthew Shepherd. And a few months after that interview, the poem featured in the choral work considering Matthew Shepherd and it was performed in New Zealand for the very first time by the Wellington Youth Choir and the Christchurch Youth Choir. Matthews also got into the news indirectly a little bit, uh, um, recently. Um, for many years he, he, um, his ashes were, were just kept by his parents. They wanted to put them somewhere and for there to be a memorial, but they were worried that were almost, wherever they put it, it would be defaced or I think, anyway, there was then negotiation to have it in the National Cathedral. In, in Washington where it was Julie put, I forget, um, a little while back now, but the bishop who was responsible for sorting all that out was the same one that gave the lovely sermon that so outraged, um, the president and the, and, and the vice president of the United States when they had to sit there and, and listen, listen and be told to be nice. So I thought that was rather nice. She, obviously that's, it's fascinating. I, I hadn't, I hadn't heard that that's where his ashes were. Yes. Wow. Yep. Yeah. Well, in August, 2024, a very special POI took place at Tepa, the Museum of New Zealand. It marked the gifting of TGA treasures from the late Georgina Bayer into the care of the museum. So Georgina is internationally famous for being the world's first openly transgender mayor and also member of Parliament. And she passed away in 2023. And then in March 20, 24, friends and Hanau gathered in Wellington to honor her. And at that occasion was Karen. Um, Karen is Georgina's sister and in this part of the interview, uh, she talks about, uh, meeting Georgina for the very first time 40 years ago. It was a really special occasion because I not only met Georgina for the first time, um, but I met. My birth father, our birth father, so it all took place at the same time as well as meeting our birth father's family. So there were a a lot of, yeah, a lot of people to meet first time, but I always knew growing up by my adopted family that I had an older brother. And so I just had imagined this older brother in a similar vein to me, and then when I met her in person, um, I've only ever had a sister. I never knew her as a brother. She's always been my sister. So it was a very special weekend that we met for the first time and then, um, we would catch up with her on occasion in the coming years. Um, so that was that 40 years ago. Another, um, really significant moment was last year at Georgina's Memorial. That must have been. I, I, I can't imagine what that must have been like for you as a whanau being there. It, it was very special to be there. And, um, a number of whanau from both our mother's side of the family as well as our father's side of the family attended and we all sat together. So that was, that was really special. Um, because, you know, for us she was whanau, um. Didn't mean that we spent a lot of time together, but she's whanau. And for my children that were there, this is their auntie. Um, and so it was a really moving occasion and to listen to all the speakers from people that knew her better than we did. Um, it was really lovely to sit there and to, to be a part of all of that, to celebrate her life. So, um, yeah, I, it was a really moving evening for all of us. That, um, were there representing her au. Mm-hmm. Now, today we saw the, the, the gifting of some of, uh, Georgina's Tonga to Tepa. And I'm wondering what is your wish for the Tonga that, uh, held now within Tepa? What is your wish for that Tonga? They've been entrusted to Te Papa, um, and they have received them with such great respect and they will honor her through the care of her Tonga and the, the way that they will share and make available to the public, um, to be able to. Participate in Georgina's life through her Tonga. Lots of photos. There were photo albums, a particular garment that was special for for Georgina. So it tell, they tell a story about this remarkable person, you know, and so to have it all entrusted to, to papa is a safe place, um, because the story will live on. Mm. That's Karen Morris, sister of the Lake Georgina, Bayer. Yeah. Um, it is interesting that, that along with one or two other things, like, uh, like Mr. Eberhart, um, came up in this, in the recent, uh, uh, TV NZ series, queer at Arta, um, by Eli Math Matthewson on one point he made was that he really doubted whether. Georgina would've got elected as an openly transgender person anymore because of the, the whole change in atmosphere in recent years, which may, um, sadly and unfortunately be, be true. I. Hmm. Gosh. Yes. It's quite sobering to think. Yeah. Uh, think, think on that. Um, that was an amazing series. Yes. Yes. Was very well put together. I thought much better than anything we've had for years. Really? Yeah. Well, another way of keeping rainbow histories alive is through the Rainbow List Project. Now the project started in 2021 and it aims to incorporate rainbow stories into Heritage New Zealand's official heritage list of buildings and locations. It's not only about uncovering rainbow connections to buildings that are already on the list, but also, uh, it's about adding new places that are specifically rainbow related. So here's part of an interview with Karen Pollock. Um, Karen is the senior Advi, one of the senior advisors at Heritage New Zealand, and this was, uh, was recorded in September last year. At the moment, there are 35 list entries under the Rainbow list theme. All but two of them were existing list entries. And the more that we find out about places having a queer story or history, the more sort of what we call upgrades we can do. Um, I would love to do more. New listings where the queer story is the reason or one of the reasons why it meets the threshold for a heritage place. Um, the first one we did was Dagens Building in Whanganui. So that's the Charles Mackey. Um. Building where, where the shooting occurred when he was being blackmailed for being homosexual. That is the fundamental reason why that is on our heritage list. It's an otherwise pretty unremarkable Edwardian building with a pretty ordinary history. The Charles Mackey story elevates it and it's actually a category one listing, which means that's outstanding. That, that, that's a hugely important story in our queer history, as you know. Um, so I would love to be able to do more of those. And we definitely have had nominations for more, but we've run into difficulties with owners who don't want their buildings to be recognized as heritage. It's very frustrating. Um, the other recent one we've got is a building called Home Crafts on Molesworth Street. That's a Chapman Taylor. Um, Walter Chapman. Taylor was an arts and craft architect. That was his showroom. It's now a pub called Chapman Taylor's. Um, and I discovered when we were doing the list entry for that, that um, a creative called Theodore Tra Trise owned that for a time and he possibly lived there with his mother. So that's a more sort of, um, that's just a sort of moment in time for that building his. His occupancy and ownership of it, um, is not sort of what makes it a heritage place. It's, but it's part of the story. And so that's what we do with Rainbow List is that it's all about storytelling. So even if, you know, the queer story is not super significant or highly important or longstanding, we can still make sure it's in the story or the narrative we tell about a place. Um. It's really important to me that we don't rule out queer stories that seem small or passing. They, they have their place. That's Karen Pollock, senior advisor at Heritage New Zealand, talking about the Rainbow List Project. I. Well, it's about the end of the show. Uh, we've just got one, uh, time for one more clip, and this comes from a parliamentary breakfast to Mark World AIDS Day. Now, a similar event has taken place annually in Australia since 2010, but this is the first time it had occurred in New Zealand. The Breakfast brings together a diverse group of people and organizations committed to combating HIV and aids, along with current members of Parliament. It really is a chance to talk about the current state of HIV and AIDS in New Zealand, but also to reflect on the last 40 years. And somebody right at the start of of of the HIV response was David Miller, who was working in the early 1980s. I am an AIDS dinosaur. I trained in New Zealand as a clinical psychologist, but I worked in that capacity in St. Mary's Hospital in Central London. On the 9th of August, 1983, I was asked to work with a young man on our infectious diseases ward there who had pum sisters Corian pneumonia meeting. Adrian started over 20 years of total commitment to HIV. As a clinician, then as a public health specialist and WHO and UN aids, I worked with people living with HIV and health practitioners all over Europe, north America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. And as was said, um, I authored a report on HIV services in this country, uh, goodness, 14 years ago. This. Most of my work though, was in the pre-treatment era of HIVA period of intense fear stigma, uh, and of clinical revolution, for example, in community and patient engagement, diagnostic and treatment protocols, and social license to discuss sex and death. The 1980s was also a decade of courage. Courage is a vital element. In safeguarding the health of the public, public health is like a finely woven. It's composed of many threads, including vital considerations of gender, ethnicity, culture, law, education, politics, finance, innovation, technology, security, integrity, empathy, love, and courage. Courage is key because the challenge and the global hiv aids e experience has always been stigma, as we've heard. That's what made the coalesced communities at risk in the United States, in the uk, in New Zealand, Northern Europe, Africa, Asia are in fact globally such brave acts. Those most affected stood up. Listening to a 1985 radio interview with Bruce Burnett the other day, I was struck by his extraordinary empathy and concern for patient confidentiality because of stigma surrounding aids, it may not always feel like it, but New Zealand community groups have changed the world very much for the better by successfully arguing for homosexual law reform in 86. Establishing the world's first state-sponsored national needle exchange program in 87 and decriminalizing sex work in 2003. At the very least, stigma had become delegitimized through such acts. David Miller speaking at New Zealand's inaugural World AIDS Day Parliamentary Breakfast held in December, 2024. And Tony, that's our retrospective from Friday NZ for this year. Thank you very much Gareth, and um, I've just been told that we've thought we've managed to fill the total allot of 30 minutes, so it's, I've got nothing else to do except say thank you very much for, for, for, for another annual visit and we look forward to, or don't look forward in some ways to what you will be talking about next time. You can hear this program again next Tuesday at 9:00 PM or Thursday at 5:00 PM It is also available on our website at dub dub dub dot coast access radio. org nz, or just Google Coast Access Radio kaga. This is Tony Reed for GAY on at Coast Texas Radio. Oh 4. 7. This program is made with assistance from New Zealand on air, for radio broadcast, and through the Access Media NZ website. Thank you New Zealand on air. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. 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