Auckland: 2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Gay Liberation movement in Aotearoa. Auckland Pride in partnership with NZAF and Rainbow Youth will be hosting some of our pioneering queer elders as we mark this anniversary together. The Charlotte Museum will be sharing a few of our taonga at the event.
Wellington: This winter, warm your heart and boost your spirits with a week of fabulous art and artistry. The inaugural Queer Arts Festival will take place in Wellington from 30 May to 5 June, featuring more than 60 queer artists across a dozen events in drag, poetry, burlesque, circus, literature, music, and more.
Auckland: The Charlotte Museum will be attending the Auckland ZineFest and celebrating lesbian, feminist, and sapphic newsletters and magazines published in Aotearoa 1972 - 2015.
We will publish two special edition zines - the first a retrospective of personal writings that were published in those newsletters and magazines - and the second a zine of new writing from those same writers alongside younger voices of sapphic lesbian women.
If you have had something published before in a magazine or newsletter and are happy for us to reprint and share your piece, please contact us.
Listen on Spotify: In honour of New Zealand Music Month, we're shining a spotlight on some of the lesbian and queer women who have made waves in Aotearoa's music industry.
by Marian Evans Some beautiful things happened for Spiral in 2021. Poet and academic Emer Lyons offered to select and introduce a major collection of Spiral founder Heather McPherson's poems: some already published and others that Heather left ready for publication when she died in 2017.