Kicking off on the 16th of February, QT ADRENALINE 2023 is an all-new festival for New Zealand’s rainbow community, promising to bring European and North American-styled parties and events to Aotearoa. With 6 exciting events locked in throughout the week in Queenstown before jumping across the ditch to Sydney, Australia, to kick off Sydney WorldPride, […]
The Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust, which raises money and distributes it back to the Queer community across Aotearoa, is holding its annual fundraiser at Phoenix Cabaret on K Road. The GiveOUT Gala happening on Wednesday, 19 October, is the launch event for GiveOUT Day, happening Thursday, 20 October, an online event where people can […]
Musicals are one of the most joyfully camp creative outlets in the world, so why aren’t women allowed to write them? Cassandra Tse discusses the disheartening inspiration behind her one-woman show, That’s All She Wrote. We often think of musical theatre as a uniquely inclusive kind of art. Since the era of Noel Coward and […]
Imagine yourself in the gorgeous surrounds of the Civic, cocktail in hand, antics unchecked, while you sashay through the foyer taking in the multiple shows offered by the Auckland Live Cabaret Season. Playing from 14 – 25 September there’s so much naughtiness to dive into this festival, with a feast queer treats to be devoured […]
Saturday 10 September will see the biggest drag spectacular to ever grace Palmerston North, Palmy Drag Fest, take over the Regent on Broadway! Drag Race Down Under Season One star Karen From Finance tells us about what we can expect from her performance and why drag is more exciting than ever! What can we […]
Abbi Jacobson has followed up her award-winning feminist stoner-comedy, Broad City, with a TV reimagining of the 1992 film, A League Their Own, about the formation of America’s first professional women’s baseball team. Along with co-star Chante Adams, Abbi talks to Oliver Hall about how far we still need to go for women to be […]
A glittering line-up of Aotearoa’s top musicians and comedians are set to pay tribute to Dames Lynda and Jools Topp (the Topp Twins) this November in a special variety show celebrating the LGBTQ+ duo’s extraordinary contribution to NZ over the past 40 years. The event, which will take place on November 7, 2022, at The […]
On Saturday 10 September, Minnie Cooper joins the lineup of the biggest drag spectacular to ever grace Palmerston North, Palmy Drag Fest, which will take over the Regent on Broadway! Recently eliminated RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under star and legendary Sydney performer, Minnie Cooper, tells us what we can expect from her performance at Palmy […]