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Contents:

• GAY MAN BEATEN UP VIC HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK CENTRAL AUCKLAND
• AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY MATCH
• LGBTQ AUCKLANRS STAGE PROTT OUTSI GAY BARS FAY AND G.A.Y, ACCE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPHOBIC BEHAVUR
• RHYTHMIC GROOV PR - GAY SPRG BEATS
• THE BEST AUCKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AUCKLAND
• AUCKLAND GAY BARS REJECT PROTTERS' ADNAMG ACCATNS
• GAY AUCKLAND 2023
• GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND

GAY MAN BEATEN UP VIC HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK CENTRAL AUCKLAND

The largt gay nightclub Auckland has been a go-to club for over-the-top dance parti sce the early 2000s.

H the dance floor, support the gay agenda or tch a view of the actn om the platform off the ma floor. The Eagle is iendly, chilled-out gay bar on the famo ‘K’ Road, where you n pick your own mic on the jebox. Vis the famo Eagle Bar Auckland for a gay bar experience like no other.

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY MATCH

AdvertisementRay Garder, also known as drag queen Kourtney Khaos, was left unnsc and lyg a pool of his own blood followg a vic homophobic attack Freemans Bay. Police are currently vtigatg a homophobic attack near Auckland Girls Grammar Freemans Bay which occurred the early hours of Saturday morng. Ray Garder was out wh his partner Tyler Vodanovich-Trott when a group of men a vehicle started yellg homophobic abe at the pair as they walked down a “dark” si street Freemans Bay.

LGBTQ AUCKLANRS STAGE PROTT OUTSI GAY BARS FAY AND G.A.Y, ACCE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPHOBIC BEHAVUR

The abe clud the slurs “faggots” and “homos.

RHYTHMIC GROOV PR - GAY SPRG BEATS

This was the world’s first ter-gay gby match. The hosts were the Krazy Knights, ntag gay men om all walks of life - a traee lawyer, a unsellor and the future Mister of Sport.

This is the story of how that team me to be, and s match agast another gay team om Ponsonby, told by those who were there. In early 1998, Dean Knight forms a gay men’s gby team. I was dog my OE London at the end of 1996 and while I was there, I had a great time playg for a lol gay gby team.

HARP HARDING - KNIGHTS HOOKER: A iend mentned there was a gay gby team beg put together so I gave Dean a ll. I thought would be great to meet other gay men, too. JEREMY: I thought was a ol ia and a step forward for the gay muny.

THE BEST AUCKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AUCKLAND

ALAN: The time was right for a group to unter some of the narrativ and stereotyp about beg LGBT, and particular for gay men about sport. Those who hadn’t played gby before were exced about tryg a safe environment where they weren’t gog to be judged, but rather celebrated for beg gay. DEAN: The Eveng Post was quickly onto and ran a big story lled “Play and be Gay”, which led to recg a few more.

AUCKLAND GAY BARS REJECT PROTTERS' ADNAMG ACCATNS

I also thk they might have been a b worried about losg to a team of gays. I put up a few posters bars and nightclubs Auckland sayg I wanted to put a lol gay team together and got a few people terted. BRYAN WILLIAMS - FORMER ALL BLACK: We were pretty supportive of the fact gay gby players wanted to play for Ponsonby.

GAY AUCKLAND 2023

No one really knew I was gay until then.

Up here Auckland there were only jt whispers about there beg a gay gby team. The publicy was about beg able to say y, we’re gay, but we also want to be part of somethg that’s very much a part of our untry’s culture. JEREMY: There was a good crowd and a good group of people om the gay and lbian muny.

GAY DATG NEW ZEALAND

It was also a real sense of achievement that, simply, New Zealand was a place where two gay gby teams uld have a match.