Tag: Christchurch
While completing her Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Canterbury, Emma Drummond has found the time to volunteer on the Christchurch Pride Committee and chair Young Labour Christchurch. Little Miss Cinnamon finds out more about what fuel’s this 22-year-old’s fire.
What started your passion for politics?
Politics...
FriGay Drinks - 12 June 2020
Pegasus Arms, 14 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch.
Photos | James Maxwell
FriGay Drinks started six years ago and was the brainchild of Christchurch community stalwart Jill Stevens. “I really felt apart from Pride events there was a lack of casual events in a city that had no gay...
Christchurch Pride Committee Member and Trans Advocate, the ultra-glamorous Joanne Neilson tells us she is missing her Salon clients, but loving the challenge of home yoga.
Tell us about your Level 4 Lockdown – where are you? Who’s in your bubble? And what are you doing to keep your...
Christchurch is lucky to have some amazing LGBTQIA+ volunteers and community leaders, one of those being our Deputy Mayor Andrew Turner. Little Miss Cinnamon talks with Andrew about his second term as DM, keeping Christchurch council diverse and inclusive and waving the rainbow flag inside and outside of the...
Viva La Diva! Little Miss Cinnamon chats to Joanne Neilson - a woman of many talents. An international diva for 39 years, a business owner, an LGBTQIA+ advocate, wife, celebrant, author and film-maker. The list is as long as it is glittery and the world would be far more...
This month Little Miss Cinnamon talks to a mighty fine specimen of a man, Nick Winchester. Not only is he one of Christchurch's go-to-guys when it comes to supporting the trans community and being a trans advocate, he's just a bloody good human.
When he's not working full time...
Little Miss Cinnamon chats with Alice Anderson about her involvement in supporting queer youth and what makes her one of my favourite Aunties.
Cinnamon says: “Alice Anderson is the fabulous Executive Director of local Christchurch Queer Youth group Qtopia. Her personality and warm heart are as big as her rainbow skirts. Alice...
When express was fishing around to see who would be the best people to write columns about rainbow life in Wellington and Christchurch, the names of these two old trouts kept swimming to the surface. Lilly Loudmouth and Little Miss Cinnamon are institutions in their respective cities and from...
