Chris Parker - Take a Good Hard Look at Me · Christchurch · Dec 12, 2026

<p><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Hello! I&#39;ve been vying for your attention for a long time now. I&#39;d comfortably say, it&#39;s been 30 years. 30 years of trying to make people look at me. In that time there have been many attempts to try and masquerade it as something &quot;important&quot; or &quot;educational&quot; but the longer I&#39;ve sat with it, the more I&#39;ve come to accept that it could maybe just be vanity. So I won&#39;t sugar coat it in the blurb. There&#39;s no secrets about to be dished, no valuable lesson to take away. I&#39;m just a 35 year old gay man, who was told there was something special about him as a kid and has been grappling with that ever since, standing in front of an audience asking them to take a good hard look at ME!</span>&nbsp;</p>