Category: New Zealand
Are you ready to be part of a sporting event like no other? One that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and empowerment? The Rainbow Games Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2024 is here to unite the rainbow community and their allies in a vibrant celebration of acceptance. SAVE $20: USE CODE ‘YOUREX’ WHEN YOU REGISTER From 4-8 April 2024, […]
Historian Gareth Watkins highlights November dates that have had significant impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand’s rainbow communities. 22 November 1973 Rev. Wilfred Ford, President of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, and Professor Jim Robb met with Prime Minister Norman Kirk to advocate for homosexual law reform. The Society had formed six years earlier and had […]
The NEW Wellington Pride Parade will be part of the Wellington Pride Festival and promises to “bring colour, diversity, celebration, and fabulousness to Wellington!’ A Wellington Pride Parade will officially return as part of the Wellington Pride Festival on Saturday 9 March 2024. The new organisers have called a Community Hui on Monday 13 November […]
A group of powerful synthetic opioids that were first detected in the country just a year ago may have already been linked to several deaths. A notification released by High Alert late Friday is just the latest in a series of warnings about nitazenes, a family of synthetic opioids that can be more potent than fentanyl. […]
URGE Events co-director Alan Granville has announced his departure from the brand, and DJ Everett Wayne has confirmed that he will step up and take the reins alongside co-director Paul Heard. YOUR ex sits down with the three to find out what this evolution means for URGE. Alan: Why is now the right time to […]
And so, with special votes now counted, National and ACT have lost their overall majority and now seem to be dependent on the good graces (sic) of New Zealand First. What does that mean for us? Firstly, it seems that our allies in the Greens and Te Pati Maori have picked up additional seats, […]
Auckland’s Family Bar celebrated Halloween 2023 in spooky style. The ever-popular Karangahape Road superclub celebrated Halloween (gay Christmas) with spooky drag shows and prizes for best-dressed. For over 15 years, Family has been the place to be Karangahape Road and Halloween 2023 was no exception. Family Bar, 270 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Photos | Peter Jennings. […]
Auckland’s Family Bar celebrated Halloween 2023 in spooky style. The ever-popular Karangahape Road superclub celebrated Halloween (gay Christmas) with spooky drag shows and prizes for best-dressed. For over 15 years, Family has been the place to be Karangahape Road and Halloween 2023 was no exception. Family Bar, 270 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Photos | Peter Jennings. […]