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Obituary: Vern Keller
The following obituary is based on recollections of Vern Keller's life as voiced at his funeral yesterday. In order to focus on Vern himself the information is presented without attribution. Vern Arnold Keller was born on the 8th of August to Joy and Reg Keller. He was greeted into the world by two elder sisters, Karen and Denise. The family moved from the Waikato to Auckland in where Vern attended Mt Albert Principal School but a later family move to Hamilton saw him at Whitiora Intermediate and then on to Hamilton Boys Tall School. A friend from those days recalls Vern, herself and another young woman hooning through the rural Waikato back-roads in his Anglia and insistent that they had seen flying saucers. “You have to remember this was the s” she said with a sly smile. Vern himself had that sly beam, the manifestation of a dehydrated but warm sense of humour. His mother, Joy, ran a dairy and where Vern frequently helped out. Another part-time position was at a Hamilton service station. But eventually he went out on his own opening and running The Yoghurt Chalet in V
NZAF mainstay Vern Keller has died
Vern Keller Vern Keller, the long-serving librarian and researcher at the NZ AIDS Foundation, has died suddenly at his Auckland home. Keller, in his mids, was one of the mainstays of the Foundation's work and had worked on stemming the HIV epidemic amongst gay and bi men for over two decades. "Everybody is a bit shocked, we're reeling from the news," says NZAF Executive Director Shaun Robinson. "Vern was a delightful, sweet man who was extremely hard-working but was content to remain in the background. He was astute and focused, he could cut through a lot of the fluff in the information out there regarding the switching nature of the HIV epidemic, he was capable to focus in on, and give us access to, the key stuff. He had enormous proficiency and knowledge." Keller, a very private man, was not known to hold had any serious medical problems. He was establish dead in his west Auckland home yesterday but may have died as early as Friday. If you want to divide any memories or thoughts of Vern with the wider glbti community email us at news@
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Reclaiming the light
Exhibition dates: 26th May &#; 29th October,
Curator: Fiona Oliver
William James Harding (New Zealand, )
Businesses of Harding and Richardson, Ridgeway Street, Wanganui
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Wet collodion glass negative
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Negatives of Wanganui district
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, Recent Zealand
Buildings on Ridgeway Street, Wanganui, circa s, including that of W J Harding, photographer, and Mrs Richardson, dressmaker.
William Harding&#;s studio, Ridgeway St, Whanganui, c. s. He used this studio from until , when he left for Sydney. His collection of 6, glass-plate negatives were nearly dumped by the studio&#;s new owner but were rescued by a relative of Harding&#;s and the Whanganui Museum. They were bought by the Turnbull Library in
A fascinating posting on the portrait photographs of New Zealand photographer William Harding (New Zealand, ), which &#;provide a detailed picture of Whanganui society from the s to the s, and are a opulent source of facts relating to Māori and Pākehā individuals and th
A Cult of Representation: Ignoring Harmful Ideologies in Favour of Queer Rep
Perhaps what we need is a new L Word; one filled so thoroughly with minority representations that we no longer are the minority; one that does not utilise our representations to justify harmful normative ideals.
Written in Oct for a Sociology of Gender paper at the University of Auckland
In her article on lesbian pulp novels and US lesbian culture, Yvonne Keller argues that academia and queer history have mistakenly ignored woman loving woman pulp novels published in the s and s due to what is viewed as a problematic nature. She argues that these novels, though typically written for and marketed to heterosexual men, provided accessible representation for queer woman women who otherwise would never see themselves in media, and that the novels provided a means for lesbian identity formation (Keller ). Today, I would argue, we contain the opposite problem: a cult in which advocacy reigns supreme, obliterating all other critical analysis. Shows like Glee, The L Word, and even American Horror Story are lauded