Fifteen sports are on offer at the inaugural Rainbow Games, including touch rugby, swimming and badminton. The Auckland Feathers badminton club are already getting prepared.
At their weekly club night in Epsom, all courts are full. Ray Kaumoana is one of them, and is already signed up to the event.
"I'm super excited. I feel like I'm playing at the Olympics, the LGBT Olympics."
Event director Tom Leonard said the pioneering multisport event is designed to celebrate diversity.
"While the event is trying to help rainbow people get more involved in sport, we're really relying on the allyship as well. Everyone is welcome to compete."
Earlier this year Campbell Johnstone came out as the first gay All Black. He will be competing at the event, as one of its ambassadors.
Johnstone said sharing his story was a positive experience.
"It was a real humbling experience to be honest, the feedback that's come back from people and messages that they've sent and telling me their story. I never imagined it would have helped so many people."
Honey Hireme-Smiler is also part of the community, as well as an accomplished athlete - a former sevens, fifteens and rugby league representative.
"Now you can see athletes from the rainbow community playing for all levels of sports, being accepted into those sports and doing what sports gives us the most, and that's connection and just having fun."
Not surprisingly, Hireme-Smiler wants to take part in almost everything.
"I initially tried to enrol in 10 [sports]. I'm trying to dwindle it down so I'm obviously looking at the rugby, I'm thinking about the swimming, lawn bowls, ten pin bowling."
Johnstone on the other hand is keeping it simple.
"Maybe the ten pin bowling, touch rugby, probably participate in social activity so I don't embarrass myself."
But ability doesn't matter so much, as these games are more about a community winning.
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