The noise at Albert Park, central Auckland, was extraordinary – a cacophony of horns, drums, biscuit tins, loudhailers and voices. Whether it was festive or intimidating depended on which side of the barrier you stood.
Outside were the people making the noise, there to drown out the British antitransgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker. Inside, outnumbered 20 to one, were the people Keen-Minshull had invited