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1926,
New Zealand Railways Magazine
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Venn Young - homosexual law reform in New Zealand
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.