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commissioner, Karen Webb, over the appointment of an Orange police officer to investigate the recent Orange Rainbow race consisted of multi-coloured vibrators vibrating their way down lanes within the boxes painted in rainbow One person - who promotes their Christian faith online - said in a Facebook discussion that the Rainbow are making the lives of others harder …” A number of local Christian ministers attended the Orange Rainbow You can read more of our coverage of the Orange Rainbow Festival here.

March 23, 2024 By Peter Holmes At 11:40am on Saturday - less than an hour before the Orange Rainbow Festival About half of the park had been roped off, and more rainbow flags fluttered in the breeze. Dogs in rainbow clothing, sniffing each other’s rear ends. Rainbow flags, rainbow umbrellas, rainbow stickers, rainbow t-shirts. Natalie (not her real name), a middle-aged woman from Orange, was decked out in rainbow wear.

2024 By Peter Holmes Orange City Council has revealed why the city's 12 councillors weren't told about Rainbow which councillor Kevin Duffy tried unsuccessfully to get council to withdraw its support for the Orange Rainbow Festival, which includes a Rainbow Storytime component. Duffy's main issue was Rainbow Storytime. At the December meeting councillors were furnished with information about the Orange Rainbow Festival

accused of being a bigot on an extraordinary night at Orange City Council that saw his bid to stop the Rainbow “A quite significant part of the Rainbow Festival is targeting children. The rainbow colours themselves are promotional.” “Events like the Rainbow Festival promote community well-being. Mayor Jason Hamling said Orange was an inclusive community that welcomed the Rainbow Festival.

February 13, 2024 By Peter Holmes The centrepiece of the three-day Orange Rainbow Festival will be a The parade will start at 1pm and culminate in markets, live music, Pride Pets, Rainbow Storytime and The first Orange City Council Rainbow Festival is on from March 22 to 24, 2024. and ticketing, will go live following a launch on Wednesday February 14, 2024: www.orange.nsw.gov.au/rainbow-festival

By Peter Holmes A motion for Orange City Council (OCC) to abandon its involvement in March’s Orange Rainbow The Rainbow Festival - from March 22 =24, 2024 - is an LGBTQI+ event that includes a street parade and Duffy appears to be irritated with the use of the word “rainbow”. “In 1984 my daughter had a toy, a Rainbow Brite. Look it up on the internet. RELATED Orange Christians lobby councillors to withdraw support for Rainbow Festival, claiming youth

Alliance - is engaged in a campaign to have Orange City Council (OCC) reverse its support for the Orange Rainbow “Our opposition to events such as the ‘Rainbow Festival’ comes from the knowledge that it is doing our The centrepiece of the Orange Rainbow Festival will be a street parade on Saturday March 23, 2024. The parade will start at 1pm and culminate in markets, live music, Pride Pets, Rainbow Storytime and Brown water gushing down Peisley Street Orange Rainbow Festival to feature street parade, disco, drag

but that was the upshot of their decision to try and force OCC to withdraw its support for the Orange Rainbow Orange Rainbow Festival is for young queer people of all stripes, and those allies who want to express RAINBOW Storytime really grinds the gears of many who oppose the Orange Rainbow Festival. In the wake of Rainbow Storytime at the library, councillor Steve Peterson moved a motion in October Eighteen of 26 public speakers were in favour of the Orange Rainbow Festival.

Duffy has turned the spotlight onto himself by lodging a motion that would see the forthcoming Orange Rainbow get her copies of the Scott Stuart books involved (My Shadow Is Pink and My Shadow Is Purple) in the Rainbow The matter of the Orange Rainbow Festival has blown up in recent weeks. Some want Rainbow Storytime - featuring children's books being read by a drag queen to children who are You can read our review here of Betty Confetti's Rainbow Storytime event at Orange Library last September

Meanwhile, Duffy threatened to try and derail the forthcoming Orange Rainbow Festival if it was found any Orange City Council money had gone towards funding an event called Rainbow Storytime. The Orange News Examiner reported on a Rainbow Storytime event at Orange Library last September. vote on Tuesday on independent Lords Place Orange Christians lobby councillors to withdraw support for Rainbow Festival, claiming youth "enticed into its tentacles" Brown water gushing down Peisley Street Orange Rainbow

EXCLUSIVE: This is why Orange councillors weren't told about Rainbow Storytime The supermarket prices Lane" INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow

EXCLUSIVE: This is why Orange councillors weren't told about Rainbow Storytime The supermarket prices INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow The statistics say otherwise Accusations fly as hundreds descend on Orange council meeting for Rainbow

INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow The statistics say otherwise Accusations fly as hundreds descend on Orange council meeting for Rainbow

"The recent Rainbow Story Time event paid for by Council has generated a variety of opinions within the email was sent from staff director Scott Maunder to councillors on August 2, 2023 to inform them the Rainbow

EXCLUSIVE: This is why Orange councillors weren't told about Rainbow Storytime The supermarket prices Lane" INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow

Orange Christians lobby councillors to withdraw support for Rainbow Festival, claiming youth "enticed into its tentacles" Brown water gushing down Peisley Street Orange Rainbow Festival to feature street

EXCLUSIVE: This is why Orange councillors weren't told about Rainbow Storytime EVEN MORE NEWS ... Lane" INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow

Lane" INSIDE STORY: In December councillors Duffy, Floyd and Peterson voted in support of the Orange Rainbow The statistics say otherwise Accusations fly as hundreds descend on Orange council meeting for Rainbow

vote on Tuesday on independent Lords Place Orange Christians lobby councillors to withdraw support for Rainbow Festival, claiming youth "enticed into its tentacles" Brown water gushing down Peisley Street Orange Rainbow

orchard, the tomboy and the transitioning that goes "haywire": councillor Duffy's nightmare scenario for Rainbow