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Queer Pride Week Notice – Taranaki (1995)
This image is a cropped section from the Taranaki Lesbian Newsletter announcing:
“19th June – 26th June 1995 – Queer Pride Week – look out for programmes closer to the time.”
It documents the existence of a Queer Pride Week in Taranaki in 1995, indicating:
Pride celebrations were happening outside the main centres (Auckland/Wellington)
Programming was community-organised and likely promoted locally closer to the date
The term “Queer Pride Week” was in use in regional Aotearoa in the mid-1990s
This small notice is actually a really valuable marker of how Pride was becoming decentralised and locally driven.
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