{"title":"AIDS, Love and the Law: From the Human Rights Act to Marriage Equality in New Zealand","authors":"Chris Brickell","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2090996","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The terrain of debate over lesbian and gay rights in New Zealand changed markedly between 1993 and 2013. This article compares parliamentary and public discussion of the 1993 amendments to the Human Rights Act, about which very little has been written, and the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill of 2013, to track a range of ideological stances and discursive positions over a 20-year period. Those sceptical about lesbian and gay rights fashioned a changing set of discursive frames that spoke to HIV/AIDS and then the trope of “political correctness”: their arguments, which draw upon a range of international influences, fractured and became more complex as time went on. There has been a shift towards a politics of love since the start of the new millennium, and a rapidly increasing acceptance of the lives of gay and lesbian New Zealanders.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"339 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Australian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2090996","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The terrain of debate over lesbian and gay rights in New Zealand changed markedly between 1993 and 2013. This article compares parliamentary and public discussion of the 1993 amendments to the Human Rights Act, about which very little has been written, and the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill of 2013, to track a range of ideological stances and discursive positions over a 20-year period. Those sceptical about lesbian and gay rights fashioned a changing set of discursive frames that spoke to HIV/AIDS and then the trope of “political correctness”: their arguments, which draw upon a range of international influences, fractured and became more complex as time went on. There has been a shift towards a politics of love since the start of the new millennium, and a rapidly increasing acceptance of the lives of gay and lesbian New Zealanders.
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The Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) is the journal of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA). In print since the mid-1970s, in the last few decades JAS has been involved in some of the most important discussion about the past, present and future of Australia. The Journal of Australian Studies is a fully refereed, international quarterly journal which publishes scholarly articles and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history and literature. The editorial practice is to promote and include multi- and interdisciplinary work.
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