Venn Young (left) with two fellow National Party MPs in 1980. In 1974 Young introduced a Crimes Amendment Bill to legalise homosexual acts by those aged 21 and over, but he failed to get it passed.
Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: EP/1980/3156 Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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'Venn Young - homosexual law reform in New Zealand', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/venn-young, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 3-Jun-2022
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