(1984–1990) passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 and decriminalised homosexuality. The High Court ruled that magazine presentations of gay men did not depict criminal acts per se, and over the course of the late 80s, conservative Christians found themselves hampered by new rigorous empirical justifications for censorship policy. Adjusting to the new circumstances, social liberal opponents of rigorous state censorship successfully used social scientific data to offset conservative claims within state censorship policy. Central government regulatory rationalisation led to consolidation of previously disparate film, video and publications censorship agencies spread across several New Zealand government departments into one body, the Office of Film and Literature Classification, in 1993 In 1993, Bartlett was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. As time went on, Bartlett's elderly former patrons and pro-censorship activists died. In 1995, Bartlett learned she had inherited her own mother's cardiovascular problems, which meant her enforced retirement from public life. In 1996, she retired as SPCS Secretary, and lived quietly in Upper Hutt until her death in November 2000. She never married. Legacy Bartlett's pro-censorship campaigns contributed to a backlash against social conservatism in New Zealand during the eighties and nineties. However, after its founder's death, the Society for Promotion of Community Standards survives as a pressure group that attempted to obstruct film festival schedules, opposed the prostitution law reform and the ending of parental corporal punishment of children due to the passage of Sue Bradford's Child Discipline Bill and the introduction of same-sex marriage in New Zealand See also Censorship in New Zealand References Further reading External links Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Society for Promotion of Community Standards Office of Film and Literature Classification Barlett, Patricia New Zealand women activists Barlett, Patricia Barlett, Patricia 1928 births 2000 deaths People from Napier, New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand Roman Catholic nuns New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns