NZ's 'garden city' is rolling out the pink carpet for the world premiere of a feature-length documentary telling the story of LGBT Christchurch on Saturday night at the Regent Cinema. The event marks the beginning of Christchurch's annual Pride Week of LGBT events ranging from workshops, to lunches, to parties, to theatre performances. Filmed by an independent company of movie-making lesbians in Christchurch, Through Rainbow Coloured Glasses was created from over 65 hours of interview footage of community leading lights ranging in age from mid 20's to mid 70's. "There are some very deep thread of personal, political and social ...

Those of you who have read Towleroad for a while may remember the story of 16-year-old Zach Stark, the teenager who made headlines back in June 2005 when he announced on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay and they were sending him to the Christian fundamentalist "ex-gay" therapy "Love in Action" camp in Memphis, Tennessee. Zach's story was followed closely that year through his release at the end of July. For the first time, in some pre-release footage from the feature-length documentary This Is What Love In Action Looks Like we hear from ...