Category: Events

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 […]

Mr. Bear NZ 2020 Corie Boley is spending lockdown laughing with his ‘husbear’, learning the guitar and contemplating the biggest happy hour ever! 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? Kia Ora, my level 4 […]

Music legend Lady Gaga is collaborating with Global Citizen and The World Health Organisation (WHO) for a historic global streaming event called One World: Together At Home. The global production which will stream on Saturday, April 18 in celebration and support of healthcare workers on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. The event will include […]

Co-Chair of the Wellington International Pride Parade, Richard Tait has local businesses on his brain during Lockdown. His advice for business owners: ‘use the government subsidies to the full.’ 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 […]

Muscle daddy (literally) Martin King is the Director of Winter Pride and Pride Pledge. He is spending Lockdown baking for his family, missing the gym and has a clear Level 4 survival message: “exercise is key.” Tell us about your Level 4 Lockdown – where are you? Who’s in your bubble? And what are you […]

Historian Gareth Watkins revisits significant dates in Aotearoa’s LGBT+ history. 28 March 1925 The New Zealand Truth newspaper reported that nearly 20 per cent of New Zealand’s prison population consisted of sexual offenders. The paper said that the convictions probably only represented a small proportion of the offences that were actually taking place.  It singled […]

Mr Gay World 2020 which was planned to kickoff in Knysna, South Africa next Month, has been officially postponed due to the spread of coronavirus. In a statement on Saturday, Mr Eric Butter, President of the Mr Gay World competition, confirmed plans to postpone the event with immediate effect until a later date to be […]