Pride Week Programme – Taranaki, June–July 1995
Event: Pride Week 1995 (Taranaki)
Date Range: 23 June – 2 July 1995
Location: New Plymouth, Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
This programme lists a full week of Pride Week events held across New Plymouth in 1995, showing how visible, social, cultural and political queer life had become in Taranaki by the mid-1990s.
Confirmed events listed:
🌈 Friday 23 June International Bisexual Pride Day→ Recognition of bisexual visibility within Pride Week programming.
🐕 Monday 26 June – 5pm Queer Dog Walk – East End Footbridge→ Public, visible Pride activity in a shared community space.
🎳 Monday 26 June – 8pm Ten Pin Bowling – Bowlarama, Dawson Street→ Social connection in mainstream venues.
🎤 Tuesday 27 June – 8:30pm Queer Karaoke – Shakers Bar (Devon Street East & Gover Street)→ Queer-friendly nightlife in central New Plymouth.
🎶 Wednesday 28 June – 7pm Topp Twins album promotion (“Two Timing”) – West Point Complex→ Major moment of lesbian cultural visibility with nationally known performers.
🧠 Thursday 29 June – 7:30pm Loving Safe for Men Who Have Sex with Men Facilitated by Douglas Jenkin (NZAF)Location: Disability Resource Centre, Young Street→ Public sexual health education during the height of the AIDS response era.
📽️ Friday 30 June – 7:30pm Queer Video Evening – Public Library→ Use of civic spaces for queer culture and community.
🍰 Friday 30 June – 8pm onwards Dessert Evening – Gover Street→ Informal, home-based community gathering.
🥐 Saturday 1 July – 8am Paritutu Champagne Breakfast→ Outdoor social gathering at a local landmark.
💃 Saturday 1 July – 8pm Second Annual Stonewall Ball – The Mill, Powderham Street→ Formal Pride celebration with tickets and supper provided.
☕ Sunday 2 July – 10:30am Post-Ball Brunch – Espresso Cafe, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery→ Integration of Pride events with mainstream cultural venues.
