It’s less than 3 weeks until Winter Pride kicks off on Friday 28th August in Queenstown and Winter Pride is looking forward to having people booked from every corner of New Zealand to attend! Naturally they’re sad that the Trans-Tasman bubble won’t be open. We are thinking of everyone in Australia right now and we […]
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 […]
Grant Robertson, Sport & Recreation Minister was reported in the NZ Herald as been pleased with the response to Folau’s recent comments. NZ Herald reported him as follows: As a gay man who played rugby at the community level, Robertson was encouraged by the public’s reaction to Instagram comments from Wallabies fullback Israel Folau that […]
The NZFalcons players at Bingham Cup Amsterdam combined with the Sydney Convicts tier 3 players to form the Southern Hemisphere Baa Baas. Results: Southern BaaBaas 12-13 Brighton Sea Serpents Southern BaaBaas 17-0 Portland Lumberjacks Southern BaaBaas 0-35 Les Coqs Festifs Bingham Cup Winners 2018: Sydney Convicts.
Rower Robbie Manson was reported in Newshub as saying “In a way, [Folau] has almost done the LGBT community a favour.” Manson used the media opportunity to promote the Waterboy charity that helps kids facing tough times get the opportunity to play sport. “One of the key barriers that the Waterboy is targeting to break […]
The Christchurch Football Club Heroes was recently featured on stuff. Check out the full story and background on this new gay and inclusive rugby union club formed in association with the Christchurch Football club. Great to see that there are now two gay and inclusive rugby union clubs in New Zealand. Read the full story […]
A statement on behalf of the Heroes Rugby Team regarding the recent comments made by Israel Folau. Israel Folau has been in the press recently due to comments he has made on his social media to his thousands of followers about “Gods plan for homosexuals”. He was asked a direct question and answered according to […]
Heroes Rugby are proud and excited to be hosting our first event/fundraiser – tickets available at www.heroesrugby.com/quiz Get your friends together (4-6 people) and come up with a fabulous team for a fun night with some great prizes up for grabs! Only $10 a person, $35 per team of 4, $50 per team of 6, […]
NZ Falcons first game day on 5 May 2018 is at Ponsonby RFC Bring your mates, family, pooches – everyone is welcome! Kick off at 2.45pm on outer-field 2 (By Stadium Rd) Join the team for a few drinks to celebrate the start of the season. See Facebook for the event details.
Social media lit up with stories of the bucket collection for LGBTI groups. In particular the actions of injured Hurricane player TJ Perenara seen with helping with the bucket collection outside Westpac Stadium. The @NZ_Falcons also had a very special guy helping out with last night’s collection – thanks to @Tj_Perenara for standing up for […]
