Timeline - LGBTIQ
Transgender community report: Seeking help for sexual violence or family violence (2023) published
Aro ki te Hā (InsideOUT & RainbowYouth), a youth programme designed to support rainbow rangatahi to have safe, respectful, nurturing relationships with themselves and others piloted
Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023 passed, Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission to be established in 2024
Rainbow Safe online training for family and sexual violence specialists, developed by Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence in collaboration with MEDSAC (Medical Sexual Assault Clinicians Aotearoa), launched
Healthy relationships and consent: Through the eyes of Rainbow identifying youth (Dickson, Fraser & Bramwell, 2021) published
Kids and gender: A toolbox for parents (Dickson & Hohou te Rongo Kahukura – Outing Violence, 2021) launched by White Ribbon
Prism : human rights issues relating to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in Aotearoa New Zealand - A report with recommendations (Human Rights Commission, 2020) published
Relationship and sexuality education guides (Ministry of Education, 2020) for teaching Years 1-8 and Years 9-13 published
Counting ourselves: The health and wellbeing of trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand (Transgender Research Lab, University of Waikato, 2019) published
Growing up takatāpui: Whānau journeys (Kerekere, Rainbow Youth & Tīwhanawhana Trust) published
Building Rainbow communities free of partner and sexual violence (Dickson, 2016), released, part of the Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence project
You, Me / Us a resource for sexuality and gender diverse communities updated
Revised guidelines on sexuality education in schools released
Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence launched
- The US population based National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010 findings on victimization by sexual orientation (Walters et al. CDC, 2013) published
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013 passed, enabling same sex couples to legally marry from 19 August 2013
- You, Me, Us – Our People, Our Relationships, an initiative by OUTLINE NZ and Rainbow Youth launched
- Sexual coercion among gay men, bisexual men and takataapui tāne in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Fenaughty et al. University of Auckland, 2006) published
- Yogyakarta Principles on the application of human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity developed (released 2007)
Civil Union Act 2004 passed, enabling "two people, whether they are of different or the same sex" to enter into a civil union.
Tīwhanawhana Trust established
- Report on lesbian violence : the hidden face of domestic violence (Brown, 1995). Prepared for National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges, Family Violence Unit, Department of Social Welfare and Sociology Department, University of Canterbury
First Lesbian/Wāhine Takatāpui Refuge Advocates Hui (Women's Refuge, 2015) held
Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 passed, amending the Crimes Act 1961 by removing criminal sanctions against consensual homosexual conduct between males