A Queer Existence then options are endless —

then options are endless — and to the betterment of us all

this book should make you want things to be different

The huge breadth of coverage includes policy design and implementation

so comprehensive it would make a great movie’ – Jim Mora

’ — Jane Buckingham

A Queer Existence then options are endless —Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraiture and oral history to record the life experiences of a group of twenty seven gay men born since the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zealand, discrimination in work was outlawed in 1993, same sex relationships were granted legal recognition in 2005, and marriage equality followed in 2013. In