Our Stories from Our People

In the early 1920s the activist and writer Rewi Alley and his business partner Jack Stevens farmed an isolated property in the Moeawatea Valley

The life force behind Queer History Month Aotearoa ‒ Pūmahara Ia Te Wā.

Photographer Fiona Clark from Tikorangi shocked 1970s New Zealand with her documentary images of Auckland’s burgeoning queer scene.

Lew Pryme was an entertainer, starting with Colin King’s rock and roll band, the Harmonisers

Muriel Kirton and Elsie Andrews lived together from 1922

Elsie Andrews, was born in Huirangi in 1888.

Miriam Edna Saphira CNZM (née Gibson; born 24 July 1941) is a New Zealand lesbian activist, poet, artist and psychologist.

Rudi was a founding member of the early Taranaki Gay Liberation group

Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor, and the world's first openly transgender member of parliament.

Memories of the venue called The Sheila’s Arms, which later became known as Club 47