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The homosexual law reform campaign moved beyond the gay community to wider issues of human rights and discrimination. Extreme viewpoints ensured a lengthy and passionate debate before the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed in July 1986.

There is a long history of opposition to sexual activity between men and an equally long history of legislation that criminalised this activity.

Social and political groups for homosexuals in New Zealand began with the Dorian Society in the 1960s. By the next decade, sexual and social liberation was in the air.

To bring about change in the law, the gay movement needed a parliamentary champion. It found one in Member of Parliament Fran Wilde.