Let’s Go… 1960s Auckland
Jul 03, 2019
3 minutes
TEXT - FRANCES WALSH
To avoid disturbing blokes and the patriarchy in general, lesbians in Auckland in the late 1950s and 60s needed to keep things on the down-low — much like present-day London, where teenage boys recently beat up two women on a bus for refusing to kiss each other on demand.
It’s territory that Jen Shieff explores adeptly in longlisted in June for a Ngaio Marsh Award, and a sequel to . The books fall
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