00596nz a2200217n 4500 220119|||anznnbab||||||||||||||a|||||||d homoit0000898 https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000898 homoit Takatāpui LGBTQ+ Māori people Māori (LGBTQ) Māori LGBTQ+ people Non-Euro-American gender and sexual identities https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000322 Indigenous LGBTQ+ people https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000886 Sexual minorities https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001297 Term used by the Māori people, or people who are part of the Indigenous Polynesian people of mainland Aotearoa (New Zealand), that was historically used to describe an "intimate companion of the same sex." In the 1980s, the term was reclaimed for use by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex people, and other members of Rainbow communities. Only use to refer to individuals who identify as Takatāpui.