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Let The Story be Told

  • Wow!

      16 September 2025
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    Oh my gosh! There has been a surge of donations on our newest page. Thank you so much! To be honest I've been feeling a bit down lately, we've got a $118k bill for the lawyer sitting there at the moment and it's definitely not a nice feeling.

    Luckily, due to my health and upcoming surgery I've managed to secure Legal Aid for the rest of the duration of this case so that's relieved some pressure, but yes big bill still to pay.

    If you haven't already, please check out the new John Campbell doco on Destiny Church on TVNZ+, we have an episode about our case on there.

    Thank you all so much for your support, it means the world!

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  • New Page Created

      22 May 2025

    Kia Ora everyone,

    We are STILL fighting the good fight and things are starting to ramp up. We are in the Discovery phase for the court case where we have had to give up all of our privacy and hand over all of our accounts and data and devices to the lawyers to sift through to obtain any evidence for the case.

    This has meant HOURS of work for our legal time going through absolute masses of data so our bills are super high.

    We have created a new GAL page to be able to help with the legal costs so we would appreciate you help with getting it out there and publicising so we can hopefully raise the funds needed for our amazing team.

    We are also looking for any large funders who may want to help us out as we feel the financial strain of this battle and the fact we are basically gagged from conducting the main parts of our business and so income is tight for us to feed into this legal fight.

    The new page link is https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/drag-queens-vs-brain-tamaki

    We appreciate you so much, please keep our story and case out there in the public eye so we can keep the traction!

    Sunita & Daniel

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  • Quick update with not much to update

      5 October 2024

    Still plodding along for now :)

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    • 07/10/2024 by Ann

      Stay strong. I can imagine that’s not easy given the opposition

  • We're still here!!

      15 September 2024

    I know we've been a bit silent but we are still here and still going strong!! Not much to report just yet simply because those we have served paper to keep needing extensions, we think maybe they're having a bit of a hard time finding representation on the law side. Ah well! We will not be giving any further extensions for any of the parties beyond the start of October so its a waiting game for the moment. We want to thank all you amazing people for you support, feel free to do another push for us all over the place. And also just a big thank you for some organisations who have been going hard for the cause and sent through some awesome putea. Indian Origin Pride and Big Hairy News.

    Those purchased the fundraising hoodies from BHN, we'd love to see you wearing them, post some photos and tag us and BHN on social media! I just got mine the other day and can't wait to wear it out and about.

    I (Sunita) have been working very hard lately, working hard towards taking a bit of a break so I will get some much needed R&R for a couple of weeks but I am going to try get some posts and videos up.

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    • 18/09/2024 by Simon Clark

      I've heard through the grapevine that a defence lawyer has been retained and that after quite a bit of brainstorming to come up with a valid argument against story time, they have landed on this idea. If a child goes to story time and likes the drag queen reading the story, the child might look that queen up online and find their webpage. That webpage may contain inherently sexual content, for example (this is the example given when I heard this) the drag queen lying across a man's lap. This makes drag performers inherently sexual and therefore (in their logic) inherently inappropriate for children. They said it would be like strippers reading to children. I tried to argue at the time that I think strippers reading to children would also be perfectly fine, it is also a profession that deserves to be destigmatised.

      Thought you should know. Cheers. Kia kaha.

  • Erika Reporting From London

      1 July 2024

    Erika Flash is the other half of this duo now based in London. Here is her message.

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  • So thankful!

      29 June 2024

    What an amazing response! Please keep sharing!

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  • WOW!

      27 June 2024

    Oh my gosh everyone! Thank you so much! I was doing so well when there were only 3-4 donors and I replied to them al individually with thanks. But now its gotten away from me so apologies.

    This is an incredible response but please keep sharing it around so we can hit that target.

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  • A special storytime

      27 June 2024

    Please enjoy a special storytime about what we are doing.

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