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Let’s Go… 1960s Auckland

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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