Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestAniwa takes his first HIV test, he overcomes some childhood trauma by throwing the ball around with one of Aotearoa's two gay rugby teams the NZ Falcons and he looks at the services offered by queer support service Rainbow Youth.
Factual series that pays homage to the LGBTQI+ pioneers and changemakers across the decades while exploring the modern day rainbow community in Aotearoa New Zealand
Direction
Ramon Te Wake centers Māori and Pasifika voices with zero tokenism.
Production
Rare archival footage that'll have you screaming 'THAT EXISTS?!'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aotearoa's queer history is uniquely shaped by Māori concepts of takatāpui — gender and sexuality existed in te ao Māori long before colonial binaries arrived.
The series deliberately platformed elders over celebrities, a choice that sparked debate about whose stories 'deserve' preservation when so many were lost to the AIDS crisis and suicide.
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