Pride week Celebration classes

We’re wanting to have some fun and celebrate with our LGBTQ+ community so we’re holding some special classes during Pride Week.

Welcome To Winter Pride

RPM: Saturday 26 August at 10.15am with Aaron

RPM: Monday 28 August at 7.15pm with Aaron

TONE: Wednesday 30 August at 5.30pm with Jake when booking qldc.govt.nz/recreation

Visit qldc.govt.nz/groupfitness to book!

$8 Special casualrate For the s e classes !

Twenty years ago, the very first Winter Pride, then known as Gay Ski week, Apple iPad, Tik Tok, fit bits, no Instagram, actually even the iPhone was still would be 10 years until same sex marriage was legalised in New Zealand. In other words, our little pride ski festival has been on Queenstown festival and technology change. Mike, my husband and I bought the festival back in thus changing its name to Winter Pride and that’s also proven to be an enormously There have been great strides for LGBTQIA+ acceptance over that time Queenstown provides, the party would probably have stopped a long time for the ten days they are here. Within that environment it’s easy to assume of the queer community’s existence but it’s not and tolerance is regressing. weren’t around twenty years ago, never came into existence as online platforms means that the queer community is facing a fight to retain some of those For a number who will be in Queenstown this week for Winter Pride this is community. Some will have come from places where their existence will be Zealand there will be visitors who won’t feel safe enough to be themselves local businesses that are partners in the Pride Pledge or who just put out here.

Winter Pride kicks off later this week with 50 events, ten more than last year, every year. There are ski days, drag shows, games nights and free community hopefully make new friends and have a laugh.

Winter Pride is one of Queenstown’s major festivals contributing to its economic how true that this is indeed the festival in a small town with a bold heart, Queenstown!!