This month is New Zealand's first queer history month - a chance to look back on the progress we've made as a country, and perhaps reflect what still needs to change.
Sarah Buxton is the director of The Charlotte Museum, New Zealand's only lesbian museum. She joins Emile Donovan.
A march in support of homosexual law reform in Wellington on 24 May 1985. Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library / http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22878952