Gareth Farr looks back on recent decades with prideRoss Giblin Gareth Farr is an acclaimed New Zealand composer and percussionist, NZ Arts Laureate, and winner of multiple Chapman Tripp awards. As the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was being battled out in New Zealand three decades ago, composer Gareth Farr was just coming out as a gay man. Supplied Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people make up The Glamaphones choir. In the lead up to the Reform Bill, anti-gay campaigners warned about the demise of the family unit, or that AIDS might spread through the nation. For the Glamaphones concerts, Farr has composed a special piece for the choir to sing, based on two poems written by gay poets.

Source: Stuff June 14, 2016 08:15 UTC