© HERO Festival

Billed as a polysexual celebration, the HERO festival ruffles a few society feathers with such events as the Big Gay Out, the Drag King Workshop and the Lesbian Tea Dance but Auckland's gay and lesbian festival has been going since the 1980s, reinventing itself with a new look each year while sticking to its cornerstone events. Of these, the HERO party is the biggest and perhaps most notorious, counterbalanced by more sedate events such as golf and tennis tournaments and a gardening exhibition. Debates, films, music concerts are also on the agenda.

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