Category: New Zealand
Express talks to House of Drag winner Hugo Grrrl. Hugo, how does it feel to have won House of Drag? It’s so surreal! Going into it I never considered I’d be here. It’s been a very overwhelming but very wonderful few days. When you first met the other contestants, who did your gut tell you […]
Lexie Matheson talks to express about her nomination for Senior New Zealander of the Year and her take on Auckland Pride. It would be fair to say Lexie Matheson’s nomination as Senior New Zealander of Year couldn’t have come at a better time for the veteran Trans activist. Matheson, who last year resigned from the […]
Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED) will not be funding Auckland Pride’s 2019 Parade/March as it fails to reach Auckland Pride’s agreed outcomes with the council authority. Speaking with express, Head of Major Events, Stuart Turner, confirmed that ATEED have declared there will be no ATEED council funding for the new format ‘grassroots-led’ Parade/March that […]
The Auckland Pride Board have announced the appointment of Joel Walsham into the newly created role of Festival Coordinator, with the aim of working alongside the community in putting together “a vibrant festival,” a reinvented Gala, and working towards a “grassroots-led Parade,” of a different “shape or form” compared to previous years. According to a press release from […]
Auckland Pride has just announced there will be no parade next year. In place of a Pride parade, there will instead be a ‘march’ which express understands will not involve the previous corporates that have participated in previous years. There will also be no opening gala or closing party in 2019. The announced was made […]
Two Auckland men have been the target of a vicious, homophobic rant from a random woman while enjoying lunch in Herne Bay. Max Tweedie told newshub that the incident occurred after he and his friend had ordered drinks and found an outdoor table at a popular Herne Bay cafe on Wednesday afternoon. Both identify as […]
Following on from a successful attempt to ban uniformed police officers from participating in Auckland Pride, anti-police activists now have a new target on their radar – Wellington Pride. However, unlike the Auckland Pride parade, the group looks like they will be unsuccessful in their efforts, with the organisors of the Wellington International Pride Parade […]
Hundreds packed into Pitt Street Methodist Church for an SGM that resulted in a 52 vote majority result (325 against, 273 for). While some of the impassioned speeches at tonight’s SGM concluded that, “there are no winners,” following the community rift caused by the police-uniform ban; the event showcased our community in a far better […]