Air New Zealand hosts the annual Pink Flight from Auckland to Sydney for Mardi Gras - and now a flight in the opposite direction has been Fag Tagged - from Sydney to Queenstown for NZ's Gay Ski Week.
Flying on Friday 29 August, the flight will be a pre-party for Queenstown's sixth annual Gay Ski Week NZ, and the announcement also confirms the Kiwi debut of Sydney's popular Sunday Fag Tag event, says organiser Mike Sanford.
"It started in Sydney by Tim Duggan just over three years ago," explains Sanford. "Once a month we pick a straight bar in Sydney and Fag Tag it make it gay on a Sunday afternoon. People sign up to the Fag Tag email data base and receive event details about ten days before.
"Some of the larger Fag Tags like the opera bar event at the Sydney Opera House have had over 2,500 people turn up."
As well as the Fag Tag Flight to Queenstown, Sanford is planning New Zealand's first Fag Tag event for next month.
Meanwhile, the dates from 2008's Gay Ski Week are now confirmed as Friday 29 August through to Sunday 7 September. Along with Queenstown's regular host hotel Crowne Plaza, other accommodation options have been added to the Ski Week package from The Dairy Luxury hotel, to Queenstown Park Boutique Hotel, to Glebe apartments.
"All the favourite events are back, plus we are adding a dyke hike and a pizza and movie night in Arrowtown - as well as daily events for non skiers," reveals Sanford.
"We're also adding events for the New Zealanders who come to Gay Ski Week just for the White OUT party at the end of the week and stay that weekend. Feedback has told us they what to party on the Saturday night too."
