''Why Strengthen the City Wall When the Enemy Has Poisoned the Well?'' An Assay of Anti-Homosexual Discourse in New Zealand

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Proposed changes to New Zealand law on homosexuality made the issues a matter of widespread public debate in the mid-1980s. The present study, which was designed as an exploratory assay of anti-homosexual discourse, draws on a large body of public submissions to the New Zealand Government Select Committee on Homosexual Law Reform of 1985. The data are subjected to discourse analysis, and a series of themes or patterns carried in the public submissions are described. To conclude, a limited attempt to test the relevance of the findings to other contexts is made by presenting an analysis of an example of a politician's radio interview from 1993.

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