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Gay rights protesters

Marchers supporting the Homosexual Law Reform Bill are preceded by an opposing campaigner
Marchers supporting the Homosexual Law Reform Bill are preceded by an opposing campaigner May 1985, Photograph by Ross Giblin (born 1957), New Zealand, courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand (Dominion Post Collection, EP/1985/2382/6).

The 1985 Homosexual Law Reform Bill aroused passionate feelings on both sides of the debate.

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