David HerktDavid Herkt

David Herkt has written extensively on New Zealand gay history. He has two Qantas/Film and Television Awards: Best Factual Series for the three-part 'High Times: The New Zealand Drug Experience' and Best Children’s/Young Adults' Programme for 'Play It Strange 2008'. He lives in Auckland.

Camaraderie in the dark: On watching gay movies at the film festival

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Each year the New Zealand International Film Festival brings gay-themed movies to an audience. David Herkt explores this history, what it means, and one of this year’s featured movies. A personal history is also, inevitably, a history of movies seen. Exploration of one’s own sexual desires will often occur through movie characters and movie plots. … Read more

Throwback Thursday: Hudson & Halls and The History of Homosexuality on New Zealand TV

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The medium is now the message, even more than it has ever been. Gay writer and documentary maker David Herkt examines the tragedies and triumphs of homosexual life as reflected in the TV media culture of mid-20th century New Zealand. There was Peter Sinclair, Lew Pryme – and then there was Hudson & Halls… At … Read more