Category: Events
MISBEHAVIOUR, Auckland’s newest sophisticated, late-night club party experience for the LGBTQI+ community and their allies, is finally returning – And tickets are on sale now! Taking over Everybody’s on Friday 18th February from 10 pm till late as part of the 2022 Auckland Pride Festival, MISBEHAVIOUR takes the flavour of the Melbourne, Brooklyn and East […]
The Auckland Rainbow Parade Returns to Ponsonby Road at 7pm on Saturday 19 February, and this time – it’s on wheels, with free registrations for community groups! For the first time since its inception, the Auckland Rainbow Parade will feature motorised floats, calling back to the days of Auckland’s Hero Parades and Pride Parades. Guardian […]
Historian Gareth Watkins searches Aotearoa’s significant queer dates from November’s past to see how this month has shaped our community. 21 November 1957 Historian Gavin McLean was born in Oamaru. As a youngster, McLean found sanctuary around the local harbour, fishing and contemplating the history of the waterfront. It developed into a life-long passion for […]
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 […]