The title of this recording is "Opening of Wellington International Pride Parade (2018)". It is described as: Audio from the opening of the Wellington International Pride Parade (2018). It was recorded in Tennyson Street, Wellington on the 10th March 2018. This is a recording of an event and features the voices of Gareth Farr, Georgina Beyer, Grant Robertson, Jan Logie, Jaye Glam Morgan, Justin Lester, Lady Tranise Bonet, Louisa Wall, Spanky Jackson and Tee Wineera. Their names are spelt correctly, but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 24 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the event. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: Audio from the opening of the Wellington International Pride Parade. Note the small amount of audio distortion on the recording was due to the PA system distorting at the event. The content in the recording covers the 2010s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: The Wellington International Pride Parade commenced in a celebratory atmosphere, with central Tennyson Street in Wellington bustling with excitement and festivity. The opening event, recorded on March 10, 2018, encapsulated the essence of the LGBTQ+ community's vibrancy and solidarity. The recording features prominent figures from the LGBTQ+ community and allies, commencing with Spanky Jackson’s heartfelt welcome back to Wellington and call for recognition of the event's sponsors who made the parade possible. Acknowledgments were extended to Wellington City Council, Mayor Justin Lester, and a plethora of contributors who helped bring the parade to life. Jackson’s warm introduction set the tone for the evening, alongside a burst of appreciation for community members and supporters in attendance. Throughout the parade opening, each speaker delivered poignant messages reflecting the different colors of the rainbow flag, symbolizing the diversity and unity of the LGBTQ+ community. Georgina Beyer, a respected transgender figure, humorously and earnestly cut the pink ribbon, representing sex and self-realization. The attendees were reminded that the event was both a celebration of freedom and diversity and a time to be 'out' and 'proud'. Gareth Farr, embodying both their identities as Gareth and drag persona Lilith LaCroix, gave an impassioned speech in red - the color signifying love and the struggles through bloodshed. Farr urged the audience to combat homophobia through visibility and fearless expression. Lady Tranise Bonet acknowledged their roots in the Wellington community and stressed the importance of safe sex and regular testing, highlighting an ongoing commitment to HIV awareness. Labour MP Louisa Wall, wearing yellow, evoked the sunlight – a symbol of emerging from darkness into enlightenment, while committing to the remembrance and honoring of activists such as Carmen Rupe. Wall emphasized the importance of an inclusive and supportive environment, and the necessity of acknowledging the journey the LGBTQ+ community has traveled, alongside the work ahead. Jan Logie, representing the Green Party, wore green to represent nature and harmony. Logie addressed recent tensions within the community and underscored the pride each individual should feel for who they are, reinforcing the overarching theme of acceptance and unity. Jaye Glam Morgan, a leading figure in the LGBTQ+ fashion scene, donned blue to represent serenity and peace. Morgan dedicated their speech to the memory of trans relatives who had passed away, acknowledging the importance of remembrance during times of celebration. Labour MP Grant Robertson reflected upon the journey of the LGBTQ+ community, gave homage to predecessors, and spoke on advocacy, particularly for trans rights. Robertson’s speech emphasized the need for continued progress and the honor of our shared history. Bringing the series of dedications to a close, Wellington Mayor Justin Lester spoke to the city's pride in hosting the event and highlighted the role of municipal support in fostering an inclusive and diverse community. With an air of solidarity, Lester formally declared the Wellington International Pride Parade open. The parade opening was a testament to the vibrant fabric of Wellington's LGBTQ+ community. The recording, while marred by some audio distortion from the PA system, preserves a thoughtful and joyous commencement of the Wellington International Pride Parade, encapsulating a reflection on progress made, challenges faced, and the collective joy within the community. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  International Pro 2008. Oh, that's fantastic. My name is Spanky Jackson. I'm an original Wellington girl, but I've been in Melbourne for the last few years and it's such an honour to be here with you tonight and you're looking amazing. Big round of A. You're too kind. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I'd just like to go through that. We would like to thank [00:00:30] some of our sponsors, and without them, we wouldn't be here today. So let's a round of applause first while we're up. Yeah, alright, so big. Thank you to Wellington City Council City Council. Thank you to the Mayor Justin Lister and his team Wellington City Council Suzanne Tamaki Maria Toby Akerson First Sovereign QT Museum Wellington General Merritt, Manager Garth The Gorgeous Chrissie Cummings Chris Le Region News Francis King and Madeleine [00:01:00] IOM Max Brewery Where the ravers it is this evening. Annette Farrington and her team, the Grand Foxy Ryan and her team Mae Eugene Perrett and her team, the French Bar Liz Christie, Andrew Arborist Nicole Harris and her team cut the mustard Liz Santos, Amber and her team film for change Helena Coolen and Horatio Ramirez and Jessie Wig Entertainment. Amanda Lahore, Planet Enterprises, [00:01:30] Clare Concrete Bar, Dixie McGregor, the Trinity Group BMW, Sandy McFadden and the team at zero. Give it up for our sponsors. Special mention also to Debbie Powell, David Brindle, Ed McCurley, Suzanne Taplin, Joe Kearns and all the many hundreds and the thousands and all of you beautiful people here this evening. Let's have a great time. [00:02:00] All right? So I would love it. I'd like to welcome to the stage, Al and he is gonna have a for our safe parade. Here we go. Welcome to the stage. [00:02:30] [00:03:00] [00:03:30] Will be out on [00:04:00] [00:04:30] Why do [00:05:00] fuck? No, I ladies [00:05:30] and gentlemen, please give it up A Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Alright, ladies. And that is not good. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, here to cut the colour of hot pink. We're going to cut the the rainbow flag today. I would like to welcome to the stage the gorgeous Georgina buyer. Thank [00:06:00] you, my darling. Good at the farm. No, We're gonna have a fabulous evening tonight. I. I expect if you sore heads in the morning. You're looking fabulous. We are out. We are proud. We are going to show our appreciation to our city for their fabulous acceptance. We're going to show our country we can do it as well as anyone. And, uh, all we can expect is for you to go out there and show that on on behalf [00:06:30] of all of us as you parade around the city. But right now, my job is now apparently the pink stands for sex. I haven't had any for a while, so come on. Um, and for self realisation. So on that note, I think most of us here are self realised. I might have been responsible for some [00:07:00] of it way in the past, as I found myself. And, of course, all of us are gonna have sex, aren't we? You worship? Please don't, um, you can join in. Um, it's quite alright. Just before I cut this fabulous ribbon, I'd like to acknowledge our, um, Minister of the Crown, our first out gay finance minister. I don't think Muldoon would have fitted that mould. Um, [00:07:30] Ruth Richardson. So Louis Wall and Jan Logie are also with us tonight and you'll see a bit of them a little later. In the meantime, let me cut my ribbon and keep this brief. Yeah, right, if it can. Who provided the blunt sisters? They're obviously from the bloody warehouse or a $2 shop. Um, with the top. Use the [00:08:00] the sure What does this mean? That we're tough nuts to trade. Here we go. This is be warned. All the other, um, ribbon covers. Thanks, Spanky. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up at Georgina. Next. I would [00:08:30] like to welcome to the stage acclaimed New Zealand composer, percussionist and drag diva Gareth Farr. For fucks sake. There's no way I'm getting up on that. Um, hello. I've decided to come out as likely Gareth and slightly Lilith, just to, you know, just for the diversity of you beautiful [00:09:00] people. So, um, if it's Gareth and Lilith, you might have to call me Gorie tonight. Gorilla. Beautiful name. Anyway, happy pride. And I adore you. And I I'm sorry, but I do have to go with my cards because I just turned 50 last week. That's it. Oh, for fuck's [00:09:30] sake. I could have said 60 anyway, tonight. Um, my colour from the rainbow flag is red. Red is obviously for love. Uh, but also, red is for the blood spilled on the streets. The thing is, homophobes find us threatening. [00:10:00] They are threatened by us. Homophobia is a fear. Um, it's an irrational fear and irrational. Fear comes from ignorance, and ignorance comes from a lack of exposure. So my answer to this is Wellington. Let's expose ourselves, do it whether that means walking [00:10:30] down the street hand in hand with your partner or whether that means walking down Queen Street or Courtney Place in a ball gown and a big old wig. Do it, That's what will make things change. And that's what will make homophobia be a thing of our dark, distant past. Happy fried, [00:11:00] gorgeous LGBTI girlfriends love you all. Oh, fuck! Fuck! So and we just test it. Alright, alright. Pardon? I got the sharp ones, but ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Gareth. [00:11:30] Next, I would like to welcome set designer and noted drag diva Lady Trenice Bone. Can you see me down here? Just It's a little bit hard to get up there. I actually was given the colour orange, but I didn't get told until about an hour ago, so I came into the wrong colour. Sorry about that, but here's my sister representing Orange. So we blue today to come [00:12:00] at me. I see you over there red at heart but blue on the outside Just joking. I'm here to represent my darling drag divas and sisters of Aotearoa. I cut my teeth at pound nightclub 17 fucking years ago, and I'm still hurting it. So thank you, melan Scottie for giving me a chance when I walked in there as a very undesirable little gay boy and a pair of heels and a bit of lipstick and look at [00:12:30] her now, look at I live in Auckland, of course, but I do call Wellington my home. I'm here all the time. Last year I worked on, uh, World of Wearable Arts. You may have heard that show. Just a little one. I was, of course, the director. Let's not keep that a secret. And, um, I went to to so I have a lot of roots here in, um So thank you for having me here today. I do wish you [00:13:00] all a very, very happy pride. Stay. Stay safe. Have fun. Last year I worked on the Auckland Pride parade and designed the um ending HIV float. So it's very important to me. Do do all of those things test often. Stay safe and use protection. There we go. So happy pride had the best time. I'll be on the float, so I better run and cut my ribbon. I'm orange. Hopefully these scissors work today. [00:13:30] 123 Yeah, Yeah! Thank you, my darling. Happy pride Everybody Count on ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Lady Trenice. Next. I would like to welcome labour MP Louisa Wall to the stage, please. And her colour is yellow, representing sunlight and enlightenment. [00:14:00] Uh, I've taken this really seriously, so please bear with me. But I've got a little and it starts off about our amazing rainbow flag, which is a symbol of hope and peace. So I have the pleasure of speaking to yellow and our flag of solidarity. It represents sunlight [00:14:30] and sunshine. We will not be in the dark anymore. It represents enlightenment. It also represents remembrance. So I want to take this opportunity to remember our fire. And this time last year I shared a car with her in the Pride parade and also last week. I want to acknowledge that as a representative of the car float. The incredible [00:15:00] work that Carmen did because they are our heroes, our pioneers, our ancestors, who have taken us from the darkness into today's beautiful and bright light. Yellow also represents clarity of thought, wisdom, orderliness and positive and abundant energy. So as we must strive for the ability through loving, caring and nurturing environments for our LGBTI Q plus community to [00:15:30] be proud of their range identity and our rainbow identities. So whether we're lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans intersex, questioning or other gender identities or sexual orientations, Queer third gender to spirit to know who we are, where we have come from, and be aware and proud of our to strive through collective action, for [00:16:00] understanding of the aims and values of cooperation and collaboration. We need our advocates and to form alliances built on mutual respect and trust. And I'd like to acknowledge our Mayor Justin and our amazing Wellington City Council team, Amanda and the Whip Team and our LGBTI community for combining for coming together in that spirit of cooperation for this second we [00:16:30] event. So it's been my absolute pleasure to represent represent us here tonight, and so all of us be strong be steadfast. Be willing. Happy pride Wellington. Ladies and gentlemen, Louisa Wall [00:17:00] Next, I would like to welcome Green Party MP Jan Loy looking fabulous today. Ah, you've all gone all out. I love it. I put on my subtle outfit tonight. Um, I'm not sure if you can tell what colour I'm going to be. Um, but it might be green. So it's really lovely to be here with you all tonight [00:17:30] for Wellington's second Pride parade and our first international pride parade. Um, And I my ribbon is green, which represents nature and harmony, and I've just got to acknowledged to and Kevin in particular for looking gorgeous and representing that point so perfectly because there have been some [00:18:00] attempts by some people to suggest that our sexualities and gender identities and beings aren't natural. Well, screw that. We are who we are, and we are proud to be who we are. And how could you resist this gorgeousness? And why would you want to? Exactly. [00:18:30] And for me, I do want to because I know there has been some tension in recent times, within or from outside the community in relation to our diversity, and I just want to acknowledge that for me, that sense of harmony and our rainbow is all of us being able to step into our spaces and be truly who we are. And that there is pride [00:19:00] in being gay and that there is pride in being lesbian and that there is pride in being bisexual and that there is pride in being Trans and that there is pride in being. And there is pride in being queer and pan and who we are. We have a right to stand proud, and the world is a hell of a lot better when we [00:19:30] can. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Jan Logie. Next welcome to the stage, Wellington Fashion and icon Jay Glam Morgan. Hey, how was everybody? I wanted to be on the stage so you could all see my gorgeous outfit. Um, [00:20:00] I'm here this evening to celebrate us all being as one and us, um, being a part of a But mainly I'm here to represent my Trans brothers and sisters and, um, on a not a dampening note on a lovely note, I'm also here to represent my Auntie Donna. Um, she's here with us. I can feel her. We've recently lost her. So yeah, to Donna. Everyone, Um and I just [00:20:30] wanted to keep this really short and sweet. I'm absolutely honoured to be up here, and I love you all. Have a really awesome pride. Love you, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for you again next to the stage Labour MP. Grant Robertson, please come on down. [00:21:00] I killed it. It is just a fantastic sight to stand here in Wellington and just take a look around everybody at what's around you and beside you. This is pride in our community. You look fabulous. A fantastic turnout tonight. I just want to say two quick things. The first of those is on a night like this. I always like to reflect on who's gone before us. The people who didn't have the opportunity to march in a pride parade but stood [00:21:30] up for our community. The people who fought for homosexual law reform the people who continue to fight for rights for our trans community the people who have fought all the way through decades to make sure that we can stand here tonight. I'm proud of those people. And on that I want to make my own special reference tonight, not only to Dana de Milo, who we miss so much, but also to Shelley. Shelley, Toki Howard, who we lost this year. Um, Shelley would have been here. Shelley would have been proud [00:22:00] to Shelley and the rest of the trans community. I want to say we've made so much progress for the rights of the rainbow community, but there's still more to do for our trans community. And we all need to take up that challenge on behalf of our rainbow community. So let's do that. Ladies and gentlemen have a fantastic pride. I'm proud of this city. It's a city where we've moved past the idea of tolerance to one where we accept and we revel in our diversity. Be proud. Happy pride. [00:22:30] Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Grant Robertson, please. Alright. And last, but certainly not least the gorgeous Justin Lester. If you'd make your way to the stage if it wasn't for the Wellington City Council and Justin Lesser, we would not be here, So give him a big round of applause. Come on. Met. [00:23:00] Uh, thank you, Spanky. Uh uh. I. I do want to acknowledge and reflect on those words by Grant and Louisa and Jan and Georgina. Uh, ge Georgina. Thank you for the invitation. I look forward to taking you up on that later on. Uh, we are incredibly proud in this city to support this event. And I'm here on behalf of all Wellingtons. Wellington has always been at the forefront of the rainbow community in highlighting rainbow issues. Whether it be homosexual [00:23:30] law reform going back 32 years or more recently, marriage, equality things aren't perfect. And it's our job to make them to strive, to improve them and to make them even better. And that's why we're here today. I want to make sure that you're loud. I'm proud this evening. You look fantastic. We love the colour. The city is right behind you and I'm happy to support it. Now gives me great pleasure to officially open the Wellington International [00:24:00] Pride Parade in 2018. Ladies and gentlemen Justin Lesser. Alright, It's your time. It's our time. Wellington, make yourself shine. Wellington International Pride 2018 Here we go. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. 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