Category: Events
After weeks of being confined to bubbles, a little bright rainbow light has appeared on the horizon for Auckland’s rainbow community with the announcement that the 2022 Auckland Rainbow Pride Parade will be taking place on Saturday, 19th February. Returning to Ponsonby Road and promising to bring diversity, unity, respect, celebration, inclusion and loads of […]
Click here to watch a hilarious montage video that introduces all of the guest judges from the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK that starts on TVNZ OnDemand tomorrow! https://www.facebook.com/RuPaulsDragRaceUKBBCThree/videos/622221402519047 This video highlights that joining regular judges Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr will be Baby Spice Emma Bunton, sexy thespian Russell Tovey, […]
As well as losing her push to recall the Californian Governor, Jenner scored an abysmal 1.1% of the vote coming in 13th place. Caitlyn Jenner’s political ambitions have suffered an embarrassing setback as she and her fellow Republicans failed in their efforts to recall Californian Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom makes history as only the […]
Ahead of their next trans-rights rally on Sunday, Richard Tait meets Elle Kingsbury, the queer activist who organised the recent rally outside the Michael Fowler Centre, which saw over 1000 people unite to show their support for trans rights. Elle was born in Auckland but grew up in the small town of Onewhero, Waikato. Homeschooled […]
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has today revealed its first six films from the highly anticipated 2021 programme. Fiona Clark: Unafraid, Flee, Memoria, Nine Days, Undine and Zola have been announced as the first of many extraordinary international and local films set to entertain Kiwis when the festival brings its celebration of cinema to 13 towns and cities […]
Historian Gareth Watkins reflects on the events of August’s gone by and explores the impact they have had on Aotearoa’s rainbow community. 29 August 1946 Trail-blazer Dana de Milo was born in Auckland. Soon after running away from home at the age of thirteen, de Milo had a chance meeting with Carmen Rupe in a […]
As a resident drag queen since its start, Miss Ribena is often thought of as the face of Family Bar & Nightclub. With that K Road institution about to turn ‘Sweet 16’, express sat down with the Outrageous one to discuss Family’s enduring success and how she will celebrate it. When we muse about her […]
In the lead-up to the Growing Families New Zealand Seminar in Auckland, Sam Everingham profiles one rainbow family. When my husband and I were going through the surrogacy process over ten years ago, nearly everyone ventured offshore to locate a donor and surrogate. These days a lot more are working with a local donor and sometimes even […]