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This Thursday marks your final chance to enter Saloon Bar’s Sing Like A Superstar Karaoke Competition at the multi-venue superclub Family Bar Auckland. If you’re successful on Thursday 11 July, you’ll be entered into the Grand Final on Thursday 25 July, with a $1000 cash first prize! While you’re warming up your vocal cords – […]
Craig Young examines the results of Britain’s general election (including Posie Parker’s votes) and wonders if New Zealand might follow. On July 4, the axe finally fell on the factionalised, negligent and incompetent British Conservative government. So what next? Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party stormed to a landslide victory, as anticipated, although encouragingly, LGBTQI+ allies […]
G.A.Y Auckland is K Road’s best basement bar, open Fridays and Saturdays with 1.30am drag shows from some of Auckland’s edgiest drag artists. G.A.Y Auckland, Basement Level, 262 Karangahape Road. @gaybarnz
Georgia’s parliament granted initial approval on Thursday to a series of bills that significantly restrict LGBTQ+ rights, including bans on the “propaganda” of same-sex relationships and gender reassignment surgery. Proposed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, the legislation could prohibit Pride events and public displays of the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag. The bills passed with majority […]
Atmospheric Eagle Bar is a must-visit on any trip to Auckland’s iconic K Road! Sitting directly opposite the superclub, Family Bar, you’ll be in for a gay old time, bar hopping across the traffic lights, having a few cans of Pal’s, catching up with mates and putting some bangers on the jukebox at Eagle Bar […]
The closing party of Pride Wairau took over Blenheim’s glamorous Hotel d’Urville, with drag shows and DJs and a diverse mix of rainbow communities. A similar party is being planned for Summer so book early! Photos | Jim Tannock.
Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at July dates with notable connections to the progress of our rainbow communities. 9 July 1869 Emma Ada Scott was born in Tasmania, Australia. By 1914, she had moved to New Zealand and was living with her “dear friend” Alice Mills in Wellington. They moved to a house on the […]
Riverton man Teoti Jardine (80) lays bare the shock of discovering homophobia in his childhood and how he escaped to the other side of the world to feel safe and accepted. I was born in Queenstown in 1944 and grew up on Kawarau Falls Sheep Station, which was my father’s family farm. Growing up, I […]