Category: Events

Dec 10
Simplifying the Pathway to Parenthood via Surrogacy

Labour MP & recent gay dad Tāmati Coffey will headline Growing Families third New Zealand seminar next February – an educational forum designed to cover the legal, medical and psychological considerations for singles and couples grappling with family formation options in NZ and abroad. It was possibly gay dad and Instagrammer Christian Newman we have to thank […]

Dec 09
SO POP RETURNS WITH STEPS, PUSSYCAT DOLLS AND MORE!

The second annual pop extravaganza takes over Auckland’s Spark Arena on Saturday 2 May and Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Sunday 2 May.   In February SO POP wowed audiences during Auckland’s Pride month by bringing together 90’s pop gods: Aqua, Vengaboys, Blue and B*Witched, all under one roof.   Next year’s line up is even […]

Dec 04
Represent NZ to the World | Register For Mr Gay NZ 2020

Entries for Mr Gay New Zealand 2020 are now open. express talks to 2016 winner and event producer Bernard Lee about what inspired him to enter and represent our community to the world.   Q | Tell us a bit about yourself? A | I’m 33, Wellingtonian living with my fiancé in Auckland. Currently working as an […]

Dec 04
KEEGAN’S Drag Diary | Ending the Decade of Drag

What a year 2019 has been! With the rise of RuPaul’s Drag Race, this has truly been the decade of drag! Don’t be sad that it’s over, who knows what the two-twenties will bring. Here is your December drag line-up. Auckland Every Friday in December, that ho, ho, ho Miss Kita Mean is bringing festive […]

Nov 20
PLEASE REMEMBER US EVERY DAY!

express columnist Elijah Luke Michel honours Transgender Day of Remembrance and those who are no longer with us.  Today is a sad day for Trans* people and their loved ones around the world. It is a day set aside to remember our fallen heroes, those who chose to take their own lives and those who […]

Nov 11
COMMUNITIES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE | WORLD AIDS DAY

The World AIDS Day Festival is a collaboration between Body Positive, Positive Women, and the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF), with a programme of nine events across the Auckland region from November 22 – December 1. express chats to the organisers about the festival and its message. A key message of the festival is that […]

Nov 06
HISTORY: THE DATES THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES

Gareth Watkins looks back at the events that shaped our Rainbow Community. November 1957 Activist and politician Georgina Beyer was born in Wellington.  Beyer’s rich life has been the subject of books and films documenting her journey from, as she puts it, “cracking it as a prostitute” to becoming the world’s first openly transgender Mayor […]

Nov 06
Keegan’s Drag Diary | Shantay, You Stay

When he’s not tuning into RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Keegan Elliot is keeping abreast of all the glitz, glam and glitter on the NZ drag scene. Here is what’s hot this November. Auckland: There’s always a multitude of drag happening on Friday and Saturday nights in Auckland. Make your way to Staircase for Fierce Friday’s […]