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Homosexual law reform
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.
- Page 4 - Reforming the lawTo bring about change in the law, the gay movement needed a parliamentary champion. It found one in Labour MP Fran
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Norman Jones, the National MP for Invercargill, was an outspoken opponent of homosexual law reform.