Thinking about creating an event for Wellington Pride Festival 2026, but got some questions? This online event is for you! We’ll also be joined by some of our partners who’ll have more information on grants and venues. Full details www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...

Thinking about creating an event for Wellington Pride Festival 2026, but got some questions? This online event is for you! We’ll also be joined by some of our partners who’ll have more information on grants and venues. Full details www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...

We're incredibly grateful to all y'all for donations to our #GiveOUTDayNZ and to the Rainbow NZ Charitable Trust for matching your donations. As a reward, please enjoy some footage of some good cats purring. Oh, and we'll also throw an amazing festival too - 6-22 March 2026. See you there!

Hey friends, there’s still matched funding available to double your donations for #GiveOUTDayNZ so if you’re able, we’d very much appreciate it! giveout-2025.raiselysite.com/wellingtonpr...

There’s still matched funding available, so please donate to us if you can!

It’s time! #GiveOUTDayNZ is now live! All your donations to us through the portal will be doubled until the pot runs out so please support us if yoi can! giveout-2025.raiselysite.com/wellingtonpr...

Our time in the Human Rights Review Tribunal finally finished yesterday. This has been a long four and a half years in the making, and a long time spent in court too. We want to thank everyone who stood with us www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/updat...

The wonderful Indigo Bloom tattoo studio (super queer, very good with fat bodies) is doing a tattoo flash raffle and proceeds are going to us! Full details here www.indigobloomtattoo.nz/flashraffle

Tomorrow (Tues 4 Nov) is our monthly drop-in session in Lower Hutt at Te Whare Kahukura from 5.30pm to 7pm. Come along to talk all things Festival, including any questions you might have about creating your own events!

This Thursday 6 Nov, from 7pm is #GiveOUTDayNZ. The Rainbow NZ Charitable Trust will be matching all donations you give to us then (up to $10,000) so it's a really important fundraising opportunity. Here's a reminder of what the Festival is all about www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/giveo...

We are at Woollington at Moera Community Hall in Lower Hutt so come see us and have a…. Yarn! The Knitorious Lulu is also representing Chosen Family Project

Our latest newsletter is out now! mailchi.mp/39f0bd45f64d...

We love to see our beloved Ivy Bar in a positive news story www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Paekākāriki Pride is in full swing! Profits from their disco tonight are very kindly being donated to our fund for the Human Rights Review Tribunal case, and it’s going to be a banger!

The government’s political interference in the healthcare of trans kids is holding up the publication of sorely needed guidance for clinicians supporting *all* trans people. We’ve been told they will not be published until Simeon Brown deigns to decide the fate of trans youth.

Where will your donations on #GiveOutDayNZ go? Here's some things! TL:DW 1. Hanging up the Pride flags 2. Security 3. Accounting 4. Rubbish collection 5. Photography 6. Snacks 7. Insurance 8. Audio visual tech 9. Web hosting 10. Onions www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1 /giveoutday2025

GiveOUT Day is back, when all donations to Wellington Pride Festival will be matched (up to $10k total). That means if you can even give us $5, we'll get $10. Find out more on our website, and put aside some money now, if you can, to donate then www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/giveo...

People be queer! Our latest artist merch collab with Kat Hall is just saying what we're all* thinking. Get sassy in a tee or hoodie, availabe in sizes XS to 5XL and a wholeeeeeee multilayered rainbow of colours. wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz/shop/categor... * well some of us anyway

See you in 20 minutes or so!

#Kikorangi fam, I have an open studio this weekend as part of the Lower Hutt Arts Trail! Check out my space, I'll have all my merch available and also, it's gonna be v chill and we can just have a yap <3 FB Event here: www.facebook.com/share/1CoNfr...

Wellington Pride Festival is for the community, by the community. That means people like YOU create events for it! So we are running an online Q&A session next Tuesday at 7pm www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...

The CHEER that Christine Baranski just got for her first appearance on screen for The Birdcage, absolutely deserved. What a queen!

Your Pride committee - or some of them at least - are ready to welcome you to our screening of The Birdcage (1996) - the film starts at 6.30pm so you’ve got plenty of time to join us!

Okay it's lousy weather, which makes it all the better for grabbing a ticket and coming along to this tonight at Scotty & Mal's. Cold drinks, cool company, hot pizza if you want, a range of temperate good times!

Got your ticket for tomorrow yet? It’s gonna be such a fun time! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

Feeling super snuggly in my new @wellingtonpride.bsky.social hoodie with cat print done by Shay Loves Orange. I got a Gildan hoodie in a 5XL & I’m a size 4 Boom or regular 28 (Obvious disclaimers etc) Yes this is basically all I post about these days #sorrynotsorry wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz

We made a tiktok to convince you to comr to our screening of The Birdcage (1996) this Friday. That’s how it works right? vt.tiktok.com/ZSUYugrUt/

Tomorrow is our monthly drop-in evening at Te Whare Kahukura in Lower Hutt! Come along & kōrero about the Wellington Pride Festival. Whether you’ve got ideas, questions, or just want to meet some of the team (and amazing community partners) and play games, it's up to you. 5.30pm-7pm, 2/330 High St

The Melbourne Fringe Festival is running a free event available online on Monday evening about access for all to the arts, and it sounds like it's going to be an absolute cracker, with lots of stuff for us to absorb in NZ too www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/eve...

Hi Bluesky FAFSWAG is in the building!! FAFSWAG is an arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQIA+ artists and activists founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. They explore and celebrate the unique identity of gender fluid Pacific people and LGBTQI+ communities in multi-disciplinary art forms.

Our queer artists continue to deliver some absolutely amazing pieces for our merch collabs! Today we're serving up a triple threat, with dancers by Imogen Wara, trans resistance from Juhyeon Yi and cats by Shay Likes Orange Grab yours here - wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz

We're really excited to open up Expressions of Interest for events to be part of the 2026 Wellington Pride Festival programme! If you're a seasoned producer, you might be already good to go with lots of plans already and we can't wait to see them! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...

At the Human Rights Commission’s panel on Rainbow Elders and there is someone here in the most amazing fuzzy progressive pride flag jersey, half pictured here

Our last fundraising film for the year (probably?) is happening next Friday 10 October. We've got classic comedy with The Birdcage (1996). Hosted by drag legend Ellie Kat, old school gay camp needs a deserving location, so where better than Scotty & Mal's? www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

The Chappell vs Charli event is actually Saturday night, old bad with dates ADHDer here apologises for the confusion www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/chappel...

Is today's newsletter the longest one we've written so far? Maybe! It's jam packed with all kinds of info, including amazing events, ways to get involved with WPF and all sorts of things happening in the community. mailchi.mp/94e9cb21acb6...

We saw you from across the bar, really like your vibe and were wondering - how do you feel about unicorns? Oh, bring on the dancing horses? Consider them brought, with this fabulous new addition to our Pride merch by Brea Marsh! wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz

We saw you from across the bar, really like your vibe and were wondering - how do you feel about unicorns? Oh, bring on the dancing horses? Consider them brought, with this fabulous new addition to our Pride merch by Brea Marsh! wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz

More details about the roles we need to fill are available here: www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/hello...

We want to put on the best Pride yet to celebrate our 40th anniversary next year, and to do that, we need to be better resourced. Committee turnover, illness and a court case have left us stretched a little thin - maybe your skills are what we're looking for?

Hey Lower Hutt! We’ll be at Multifest today AND Living in Colour tonight, so please do come say hi!

Next up in our fundraising film series, we go back to the 1990s, when things were both simpler and more complicated for our community, with the Robin Williams/Nathan Lane comedy 'The Birdcage'. Join us on 10 October at S&M's Cocktail Bar - tickets $20/$13

Bluesky is probably very sensibly not the place that relies on video, but here, have a very high quality promo made expertly for tiktok anyway, and come see The Hunger on Sunday! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

There’s no way the WPF committee'd be able to create 70+ events we’ve had at past festivals by ourselves. Maybe you’re thinking about an event you’d like to see at WPF 2026? But you don't know how to start? We've put together a beginner's guide to events! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/how-to

Bluesky is probably very sensibly not the place that relies on video, but here, have a very high quality promo made expertly for tiktok anyway, and come see The Hunger on Sunday! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

Apologies to your bank account, but we've added another amazing design to our merch. "Pride was a riot" by Cosmo Bones is a reminder of the political role of Pride, along with being a gorgeous piece of design, a show of strength thru love & a little word play too wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz

"Benjamin Doyle’s resignation forces the question: whose Parliament is this? If it cannot hold Māori, takatāpui, rainbow, and diverse communities safely, then it fails – Te Tiriti, Parliament and the kaupapa of MMP." waateanews.com/2025/09/06/b... #nzpol

A reporter from @thespinoff.bsky.social came to court last week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-...

Got your tickets yet? It’s happening this Sunday and you can win a $50 bar tab courtesy of Underworld Tavern for the best dressed…

We are incredibly sad to hear that Benjamin Doyle has been forced to resign from Parliament due to continued harassment and intimidation. We must do better as a country.