(Above: A NZ Ruby Team celebrating a win shirtless in the rain.)

New Zealand's Parliament has unanimously passed a law that will expunge convictions under laws that criminalised gay sex. Nearly 1,000 men were found guilty of homosexual offenses between 1965 and the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1986. They will now be able to apply for those convictions to be deleted. There is also the option for a family member or other representative to do this if the person with a conviction has died.

A bill bringing forward the measures passed its third reading in the New Zealand Parliament on Tuesday without a single vote against it. Unlike similar laws overturning convictions in Canada and Germany, however, specific monetary compensation was not included in the bill, which simply wipes one's criminal record.

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