Rātapu | Sunday, 18 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2026

Since 1992 The Mauri of Hui Takatapui - He Māpuna follows hāpori/organisations who Tono to hold the Mauri and deliver Hui Takatāpui in the following 2 years. 

‘In 1986, members of the Auckland takatāpui community organised the inaugural 

Māori Gay and Lesbian Hui in response to the growing HIV epidemic in New Zealand. 

The first hui was aimed at addressing community concerns about HIV. 

The kaupapa of the hui was to establish strategies to educate Māori at risk and
their wider whānau about HIV and AIDS awareness, develop initiatives aimed at
preventing HIV transmission, to educate the wider whānau about HIV and to combat
stigma and discrimination. In 1992, the NZAF started the Māori Youth Project which 

took on the mahi of the Māori Gay and Lesbian Hui, renaming it Hui Takatāpui. 

Today Hui Takatāpui is about creating a wider identity for Māori gay, lesbian, bisexual  and transgender people.’