Events

Winter Pride – 28 August to 6 September 2020

Winter Pride – 28 August to 6 September 2020

Some exciting news today from Queenstown. Winter Pride 2020 will now proceed on 28 August to 6 September 2020 Exclusive Enabling Passes registration coming very soon on Winter Pride Facebook page. Check out our latest video updates on Facebook for all the details. Check out Winter Pride NZ facebook for more details.

Domestic Winter Pride Planned

Domestic Winter Pride Planned

Today Winder Pride are excited to announce that under the Alert Level 2 restrictions a domestic only Winter Pride festival is possible and they  have started to think about what that can look like. NOTE, we are NOT at Alert Level 2 yet, but remain optimistic for a move within the coming weeks. The dates […]

Winter Pride Needs your help: Sign the petition and share

Winter Pride Needs your help: Sign the petition and share

Winter Pride today  have launched a petition to Tourism New Zealand to Show us the Rainbow and ‘re-imagine’ tourism in NZ! Why? New Zealand is arguably asleep at the wheel on what could be one of the biggest Tourism recovery opportunities in front of us – Rainbow (LGBT+) Tourism. Winter Pride is one of the […]

Cook Island’s First Ever Pride Day Postponed Indefinitely

Cook Island’s First Ever Pride Day Postponed Indefinitely

This month’s Cook Islands Pride Day will not go ahead as a precautionary measure to manage the risk of coronavirus transmission. While there are no cases of COVID-19 in the Cook Islands, organisers of the event have made a decision to put their plans on hold indefinitely. “I’m sure people will understand the reasons for […]

RNZ: Strong Pacific voice at pride march

An estimated 7000 people took part in the Auckland pride march on Saturday 8th Feb including a strong Pacific presence. Now called OurMarch, the event focussed on inequities still experienced in the rainbow community around New Zealand and the Pacific. Read the full story on RNZ

AUM Eclectic Garden – 1 December 2018

Hailed by Australian news site The Music as, “One wow-worthy performer”, 2018 ARIA nominee Mojo Juju spoke out in August about being labelled as “too queer, too brown, or not attractive enough to sell records”. But, the Australian-born artist with indigenous Aboriginal (Wiradjuri) and Filipino heritage will be warmly welcomed at her first New Zealand […]

Wellington Pride Festival – 8 March – 24 March 2019

Wellington Pride Festival – 8 March – 24 March 2019

Every year Tū Whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara celebrates the LGBTTQIA+ community with two weeks full of a diverse range of events, performances and activities organised by groups within the community. ​The timing of our 2019 festival coincides with the ILGA World Conference 18-22 March 2019 held at the Michael Fowler Centre. We look forward to […]

Intersex Awareness Day – 26 October 2018

Intersex Awareness Day – 26 October 2018

Check the two new beautiful pieces of artwork – created for Intersex Awareness Day (in the facebook post) by the talented local artist, Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho. The first celebrates the preciousness of life itself, the sacredness of birth, of babies. At a street protest in Chicago earlier this year, the refrain: children need love, not […]

Paekakariki PRIDE Festival 2018 – 19-23 October 2018

Paekakariki PRIDE Festival 2018 – 19-23 October 2018

Paekakariki PRIDE Festival 2018 is on over the Labour Day long weekend. The festival is an all-inclusive friendly festival to celebrate the wonderful diverse rainbow communities in the fabulous seaside village of Paekakariki. All welcome. Numerous events so check out their facebook page

Winter Pride ’18 – ASB Pride in the Park – Queenstown – 7 September 2018

Winter Pride ’18 – ASB Pride in the Park – Queenstown – 7 September 2018

On 7 September 2018 the first ever free Public Pride in the Park event in Queenstown. Proudly supported by foundation sponsor ASB Bank with additional support from Queenstown Lakes District Council in conjunction the Pride Pledge. This event is going to be spectacular. Join Winter Pride from 12 noon till 8pm for an amazing pride […]