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To All The Boys We’ve Loved Before

To All The Boys We’ve Loved Before

The Homophones are Wellington’s Gay Men’s Chorus. The choir was established in 2008 and over the last three years has performed at the Outtakes Festival, the Aids Candlelight Memorial, and given their own concerts. Earlier this year they flew to Auckland to take part in the Out and Loud choral festival, a gathering of gay […]

Outgames early bird discounts till end of the month

Outgames early bird discounts till end of the month

If you haven’t registered for the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames then you have till the 31st October to make savings with earlybird fees for the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames. Hundreds of people from 7 countries have signed up so far, with numbers in some sports running well ahead of forecast. Athletes are travelling from as far away […]

Same-Sex Couple Adoption – Talk By Claudia Geiringer, 19 August

Same-Sex Couple Adoption – Talk By Claudia Geiringer, 19 August

Rainbow Wellington has arranged for Claudia Geiringer to speak to us on this subject on Thursday 19 August at Kitty O’Shea’s, 28, Courtenay Place, starting at 6 pm. The upstairs bar will be open for drinks from 5.30. Claudia is the barrister who won the recent landmark Court case for de facto heterosexual couple adoption. […]

Get your glad rags ready

Get your glad rags ready

Tickets for NZAF’s 25th anniversary dinner in Wellington are now on sale. The dinner is being held on Saturday 24th July at the Roxy Cafe in Cuba Street, from 7-11pm.  Special guest speaker Bill Hastings, the former Chief Censor, will be joining guests for a night of fun and fabulous fundraising. Entertainment includes a quiz […]

Miss Galaxy Launches Groundbreaking New Plan From Tonga/New Zealand Partnership

Miss Galaxy Launches Groundbreaking New Plan From Tonga/New Zealand Partnership

Miss Tara, the 2010-2011 Miss Galaxy Queen, was crowned at the largest annual pageant in Tonga on Friday 9 July 2010. The pageant kicked off on Saturday 3 July with a spectacular condom parade and attracted crowds of approximately 2000 people each night. The Miss Galaxy Queen pageant showcases the social, creative and educational skills […]

Wellington Regains Hui Takatapui and National Takatapui Awards

Wellington Regains Hui Takatapui and National Takatapui Awards

The Wellington Takatāpui community in partnership with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) are proud to bring Hui Takatāpui and the National Takatāpui Awards to Wellington in 2010. Hui Takatāpui is the single biggest gathering for takatāpui from across the country and will be held at Pipitea Marae on 29-31 October 2010. An annual event, […]

Calling All Gay Men To Kiss And Tell

Calling All Gay Men To Kiss And Tell

The creators of the all new Gay cabaret show Songs for Guy are calling on men to submit personal short stories, thoughts, beliefs and anecdotes that reflect their experience of living and growing up as a gay NZ male. In the same vein as the classic Broadway musical A Chorus Line combined personal stories with […]

Lessons learnt from contemporary moral panics – Auckland May 18

Lessons learnt from contemporary moral panics – Auckland May 18

Moral and sex panics have been employed on a national scale to undermine sexual, gender and reproductive rights according to an American authority on sexuality. Professor Gilbert Herdt from San Francisco State University will give a public lecture at The University of Auckland this month on the lessons learnt around moral and sexual panic from […]

Hamilton Candelight Memorial

This year’s Candlelight Memorial takes place on Sunday, 16 May. Hamilton Candlelight Memorial Sunday 16 May, 5pm, Metropolis Café, Victoria Street There are formal gatherings in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Invercargill to remember friends, family and whānau who have died. Please join us – members of Hamilton Pride Inc. – at Metropolis Café, Victoria Street at 5pm […]

Candlelight Memorial 2010

Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of some 1,200 community organisations in 115 countries hosting local memorials that honour the lost and raise awareness about HIV. This year’s Candlelight Memorial takes place on 16 May, when New Zealanders will be […]

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