Category: Events
Growing Families have half-day face-to-face seminars coming up next month in both Auckland (11 June) and Wellington (12 June) for those looking at creating a family. Whether you are looking at local surrogacy in NZ or offshore arrangements in countries like the US or Canada, the level of trust inherent in these journeys demands not only a leap of faith, […]
Palmerston North is set to host the biggest drag show in the Central North Island when Palmy Drag Fest returns this September, featuring some of the biggest names in local, national, and international drag. Aiming to make Palmerston North Aotearoa’s Capital of Drag, the festival’s producer Henrique Beirão moved to Palmerston North from Melbourne and […]
Sydney will open its rainbow heart to welcome New Zealand friends next summer, as the city hosts the first WorldPride in the Southern Hemisphere. From 17 February to 5 March 2023, Sydney WorldPride will celebrate the brightest and boldest from the LGBTQIA+ community and will dazzle you with a glittering global Pride festival, celebrating the […]
As URGE Events make a welcome return to Auckland on Saturday 11 June, Michael Stevens looks back to the K Road bar that created a community. It often seems to me we queers use the word “community” in the hope that by doing so, we create one. We are not one community, we are many […]
Alfie’s was Auckland’s most talked about nightclub in the ’80s and a hub for the queer community, thanks, in part, to showgirl Niccole Duval’s infamous Bloomers stage show. She takes Steven Oates for a trip down memory lane. Throughout the 1980s there was one club in downtown Auckland that was synonymous with glitz, glamour and […]
Organisers of the Auckland Rainbow Parade have announced details of next year’s event returning to Ponsonby on Saturday the 18th of February 2023. Bringing diversity, unity, respect, celebration, inclusion and loads of colour in 2023, organisers say the 2023 Parade will be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Trevor Easton, who […]
They say Drag has always been at the forefront, but now three of Auckland’s top drag talents are taking their art to the new frontier. Yuri Guaii, FLOR, and Monty Montgomery welcome express into the Metaverse and explain how Lockdown Purgatory helped them find their future. During Lockdown, Auckland’s most prolific king and two of […]
Kiwi singer-songwriter Lontalius had just celebrated his 25th Birthday when he sat down with Oliver Hall to promote his Auckland Arts Festival concert that would mark his triumphant return to live performing for the first time since the pandemic. Sadly red alert level settings scuppered those plans, but graciously he still agreed to discuss his […]