Since the Hero Parade, both Auckland Pride Festival’s Pride Walk and Rainbow Auckland’s Pride Parade have followed in its footsteps. In 1996, the Hero Parade moved from its traditional Queen Street home to Ponsonby Road, where the relaunched Pride Parade would later be held. The 1998 event remains the best-known Hero Parade, in large part for that image of participants wearing Bill Ralston masks. Colin Mathura-Jeffree, television presenter and Hero legend: The Hero Parade in 1998 was called Gods and Monsters. The society, which was debt-free, owned the intellectual property rights to the Hero Parade which would now revert to the Hero Charitable Trust, said society chairwoman Ann Speir.

Source: Stuff September 03, 2022 18:22 UTC