Brent Coutts is an historian and poet. His latest book, Crossing the Lines: The story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in World War II, has been enthusiastically received, while an earlier book Protest in New Zealand includes a chapter on the advancement of LGBTQ civil rights in New Zealand. In 2017 he published Re-Reading the Rainbow, a history of LGBTQ artists in New Zealand 1968-1995. Brent has written a number of queer art books, published several volumes of poetry and also collaborated with other queer artists, poets and composers.
