Day: March 5, 2026
The award-winning gay-BDSM love story, PILLION, will be coming to NZ cinemas on March 12. Wallflower Colin (Harry Melling) leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray (Alexander Skarsgård)! Hilarious, subversive and sexy, PILLION is the acclaimed and surprisingly tender love story from writer-director Harry Lighton, starring Melling and Skarsgård in fearless […]
Sydney erupted in colour as the 48th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade took over the city on Saturday, 28 February 2026. From Oxford Street to Flinders Street to Moore Park Road, became a sea of glitter, bodies and banners as hundreds of thousands gathered for one of the world’s most iconic Pride celebrations. […]
A Christian fundamentalist teacher in Indiana has been awarded more than $650,000 after claiming he was forced out of his job for refusing to respect a transgender student’s pronouns. Music teacher John Kluge reached a settlement with Brownsburg Community Schools following nearly eight years of legal disputes over his dismissal. The case stems from a […]
Sun, sequins and seriously good house music, the Paradiso Pool Party once again turned Ivy’s Pool Club into one of the hottest tickets of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Held on Sunday 22 February 2026, this long-running signature event invited partygoers to slip into their Speedos, grab a cocktail and dive headfirst […]
Christchurch Pride Festival is in full swing with a full calendar of events offering something for all rainbow communities to attend and enjoy. Christchurch Pride Festival is back with a full month of celebration, connection and unapologetic visibility across Ōtautahi. After the success of last year’s expanded programme, organisers are once again delivering 31 days […]
Rainbow Games trustee Paea Longopoa shares her journey growing up queer in a Tongan family in Auckland, navigating culture, identity and finding belonging through rugby and Pacific-led rainbow spaces. Paea Longopoa grew up in Auckland as the only daughter in a Tongan family of five children. Her parents migrated from Tonga in the early 1970s, […]