Category: Events
A working group has been set up to explore the possibility of establishing a new Auckland Pride festival The ‘Rainbow Community Working Group’ has been launched with the aim to undertake LGBTIQ+ community events which will “be inclusive for everyone for 2020 and beyond.” The group has established a Facebook page which they have invited […]
NZ Herald Premier Series: Fantasy 8pm, Thursday 14 February Including highlights from Wagner’s comedic opera Die Meistersinger: Overture, British composer Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’ and Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. Berlioz composed this spectacular symphony to recover from a failed love affair. He evidently found it therapeutic to write music depicting his own beheading and to conclude the […]
27-Year-Old Samoan-Kiwi Nick Francis has been crowned Mr. Gay New Zealand 2019 after a month-long competition which concluded on-stage at the Ending HIV Big Gay Out on Sunday at Auckland’s Coyle Park. Nick who was born in NZ before moving to Samoa with his family as a child, returned back to Auckland in his early […]
The origins of Valentine’s Day began over 1500 years ago but it wasn’t until medieval writer Geoffrey Chaucer got hold of the story that St Valentine became associated with courtly love and romance. Of course, like much of history, stories about ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ have never featured in Valentine narratives […]
express talks to Auckland Pride Board members about the meaning behind their #OurMarch outfits. Members of the Auckland Pride Board led Saturday’s #OurMarch wearing t-shirts that displayed targets on their backs. “It’s a little rainbow design that’s in the shape of a bullseye of sorts,” Auckland Pride Board Secretary Michael Lett told express. “It’s a […]
Next month, season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race will grace our screens as the show continues to grow in both mainstream popularity and production budget. To celebrate, express spoke to two of last season’s most beloved contestants Asia O’Hara and Kameron Michaels. Along with fan-favourites Detox, Kim Chi, Naomi Smalls and Violet Chachki, these queens […]
The MP and former TVNZ Presenter made the announcement at the Big Gay Out. Labour MP and former TVNZ presenter Tamati Coffey has announced today that he and his partner Tim Smith are expecting a baby. The couple who had a civil union in 2011 have been together for the past decade. Mr Coffey made […]
Organisers declare community event a success, saying 3000 attendees is a conservative estimation. Auckland Pride’s inaugural ‘#ourmarch’ attracted 3000 people including participants in the march and attendees of the Myers Park celebration that followed, according to the March’s producer Richard Green. The march which followed the ‘graduation route’ from Albert Park had a grass routes […]