Whitianga LGBTQ+ City Guide

1. Māori ancestors voyaged from East Polynesia and settled Aotearoa around 1250–1300.
2. te Tiriti o Waitangi was first signed in 1840; its Māori and English texts have important differences and should not be presented as identical translations.
3. Colonial wars and raupatu, women’s suffrage in 1893, adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1947 and the Constitution Act 1986 shaped the present constitutional system.

1. Colonisation introduced British-derived criminal law and conservative attitudes that suppressed sexual and gender diversity.
2. After organising in the 1960s and liberation movements in the 1970s, consensual sex between adult men was decriminalised in 1986.
3. Human-rights protections, civil unions and marriage equality in 2013 followed; takatāpui, trans and intersex experiences still require their own contexts.

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• Do not publish an exact lodging, workplace or live location unless necessary.

• Reusing the same photo in dating apps and public social accounts can increase outing risk.

• Meet for the first time in a staffed public place and control your own transport.

• Call 111 for immediate danger and use 105 for non-emergency police reports.