| Bill Edginton Author | |
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Bill Edginton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1938. He graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master's degree in Russian. His early career was in the former Department of External Affairs where he had postings in Geneva and London. Participation in a UNESCO General Conference in Paris led him to a position with the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. He worked generally in the field of international education and became Manager for International Education in the New Zealand Ministry of Education. |
| Bill came out as a gay man in the seventies. He was drawn into political activism in the gay and lesbian movement through gay service groups. This was primarily for law reform leading to the legislation enacted in New Zealand in 1986. At the same time, he became involved in an AIDS support network which was formed in Wellington in response to the developing AIDS pandemic. He had a background as a layman in the Church and engaged in political activism there also, a role which necessarily continued well past the secular reform achieved in 1986. | |
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