Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission today announced the launch of Rights & Realities: Remembering 1986, a new podcast marking the 40th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act, the law that decriminalised consensual sex between men in New Zealand. “As New Zealand’s first openly gay Chief Human Rights Commissioner, this anniversary carries particular significance for me,” said Dr Rainbow. Fran Wilde , former Labour MP who introduced the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, and Dr Stephen Rainbow , Chief Commissioner, Human Rights Commission. , former Labour MP who introduced the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, and , Chief Commissioner, Human Rights Commission. Disability Rights Commissioner and Commission Rainbow rights spokesperson, Prudence Walker, and legal scholar and advocate Vinod Bal.