Category: Events

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 […]

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 […]