New Zealand passes Marriage Equality and sings

Reading of the vote to pass Marriage Equality in New Zealand, followed by a waiata (song annotated for nonNZers) This is the most heartfelt singing of Pōkarekare I have ever heard. Pōkarekare ana ngā wai o Rotorua Troubled are the waters of (Lake) Rotorua Originally o Waiapu river but this version suggests the story of highborn Hinemoa swimming Rotorua to her lowborn lover Tūtānekai on Mokoia Island. One speaker mentioned how Tūtānekai still loved his takatāpui, intimate samesex companion T