Metro NZ

Rainbow youth

“At first you land a job like that, and there’s a moment where you go: ‘Fuck. Can I do this?’”

Max Tweedie is 21. He skipped university, working for World Vision, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand instead. And now, as the new director of the Auckland Pride Festival, he’s got a lot to prove. “It’s not just the weight of, ‘Can I do this?’ to prove [myself] to the people who hired

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