Category: Events

Auckland’s newest safe space for LGBTQI + & friends Trilogy Cafe and Bar has announced their newest event ‘HUMAN’ on Saturday the 8th of August. With a variety of events coming up at Trilogy over the next few months there is bound to be something that takes your fancy. From DRAG BRUNCH (every first Sunday […]

Join artist Pati Solomona Tyrell (founder of Pasifika queer art collective Fafswag), artist Suzanne Tamaki (Maniapoto, Tuhoe; a member of Pacific Sisters and SaVAge K’lub art collectives), and Chief Curator Robert Leonard for a talk in Oracles. Working across performance, photography, and video, Pati Solomona Tyrell and Christian Thompson channel historical spirits and consequences through masquerade. […]

K-Road’s latest safe space has announced a new line-up of queer events kicking off this July including drag brunch, trivia nights, and the next edition of the ever-popular Furry Friday. Speaking with express, Trilogy’s team say that they pride themselves “on being an inclusive space for everyone” and they look forward to hosting the LGBT+ […]

“Let’s all recommit to keep doing the work that’s required and make sure that we show that international solidarity so that everyone can celebrate who they are, no matter where in the world they live.” – Jacinda Ardern. The New Zealand component of Global Pride will feature highlight reels from the recent Wellington International Pride […]

Historian Gareth Watkins examines significant June dates in the history of Aotearoa’s rainbow community.  17 June 1909  Anges Ottaway applied to get her marriage to Percival Redwood annulled. Redwood, a.k.a. Amy Bock (pictured) had moved to New Zealand from Australia in the mid-1880s. Described by author Fiona Farrell as “New Zealand’s most celebrated and energetic […]

In response to the lockdown and travel restrictions enforced across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Gay World has joined many other large-scale LGBTQ events and had to completely postpone their 2020 event. The competition’s finale, which has been held in South Africa for the last two years and was scheduled to again be […]

With NZ still in Level 3 Lockdown, Rainbow Auckland has moved their May monthly mixer, featuring Labour Party MPs Louisa Wall and Tamati Coffey to an online Chat on both Facebook and Zoom. The virtual mixer featuring the Labour MPs will give members of Rainbow Auckland to hear directly from Wall and Coffey, with the […]

Christchurch Pride Chairperson Jill Stevens is isolating with her two teenage boys; cooking, dressing as a tiger and planning post-lockdown ChCh Pride Event – ‘We’re Back Bitches!’ Tell us about your Level 4 Lockdown – where are you? Who’s in your bubble? And what are you doing to keep your mental health in check? I’m […]