Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa (formerly LAGANZ)
Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa (formerly LAGANZ) collects, preserves and makes available for research the records and personal papers of LGBTTFIQ people and organisations in New Zealand.
What’s Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa?
The Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa (formerly LAGANZ) is housed in the Alexander Turnbull Library within the National Library building in Wellington. The collection is owned and managed by a community trust.
The archive includes over 700 manuscript collections from organisations and individuals, several thousand books and hundreds of serial titles from all over the world.
It also holds a wide range of ephemera such as posters, flyers and buttons, as well as sound and video recordings.
Some areas of common research interest are:
the gay liberation movement
lesbian feminism
sexual law reform
human rights and discrimination
sexuality / sexual orientation
HIV / AIDS,
censorship.
Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa website
Definition of LGBTTFIQ
In the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa Trust’s deed we use LGBTTFIQ to mean lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui, fa’afafine, intersex or queer and includes any same-sex attracted, transgender or intersex members of any indigenous community of the Pacific.
Access the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa collections
The Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa website is the primary finding aid to the archive. It lists the manuscripts and serials collections contained in the collection. The website also gives access to the logs of sound recordings about the campaign for homosexual law reform in 1985 – 1986 through an audio database.
The National Library Catalogue also contains some records for the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa book collection.
Audio data base — logs of sound recordings about the campaign for homosexual law reform in 1985 – 1986 on Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa website
National Library Catalogue — Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa search results
Contact us before you visit
Contact us to discuss access to the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa collections and any research requirements before your visit. Use our "Ask a librarian" service to get in touch.
To access Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa collections you will need to come to the Alexander Turnbull Library Reading Rooms on the 1st floor of the National Library building, corner of Molesworth and Aitken Streets.
Donate material to the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa collections
If you would like to donate material to the Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa collection use our 'Ask a librarian' service.
