The Cook Islands will host its first pride day this month, as the country's LGBT community continues a fight to have homosexuality removed from the Crimes Act.
The community event will be held at the national auditorium on Rarotonga on the 27th of March.
It comes after a select committee last year reinstated homosexuality into a revised crimes act, after it had been initially removed.
This year, parliamentarians will vote on the act's final form - and whether homosexuality will be decriminalised.
A spokesperson for the event organiser, Te Tiare Association's Karla Eggelton, told Jamie Tahana it's hoped it will help stir community support.
An image from Auckland's Rainbow Pride march in February. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
