Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara
@wellingtonpride.bsky.social
Wellington Pride Festival is the longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa.
The 2026 Festival is happening 6 - 22 March.
https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/
The 2026 Festival is happening 6 - 22 March.
https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/
Three spots have opens up in our Queer Cooking Class tonight. Want to joint us? Email eat@wellingtonpride.com now!
Working with funding from Lower Hutt City Council, we’re really excited to be able to start offering FREE cooking classes for our rainbow community. Learn some new skills, make some new friends & eat some great food. Classes start next Wed so sign up now! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/they-ate
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Three spots have opens up in our Queer Cooking Class tonight. Want to joint us? Email eat@wellingtonpride.com now!
Btw there will be one of these guides to Wellington Pride too, just a little later on!
It’s Auckland Pride season! The D*List has curated a list of accessible, joyful events happening throughout February to enjoy. Happy Pride!
An accessible events guide for Auckland Pride 2026
It’s Auckland Pride season! The D*List has curated a list of accessible, joyful events happening throughout February to enjoy. Happy Pride!
thedlist.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Btw there will be one of these guides to Wellington Pride too, just a little later on!
The programme for our 2026 festival is now online, yay! To celebrate, we took two minutes during our committee meeting today to discuss what events we're most looking forward to. www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events
WPF - good at organising a festival, really really bad at making promo videos.
WPF - good at organising a festival, really really bad at making promo videos.
February 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The programme for our 2026 festival is now online, yay! To celebrate, we took two minutes during our committee meeting today to discuss what events we're most looking forward to. www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events
WPF - good at organising a festival, really really bad at making promo videos.
WPF - good at organising a festival, really really bad at making promo videos.
This is what Rainbow Windows of Wellington - and indeed all of Pride - is about. You are safe here, you are loved.
This was a genuinely moving & heartfelt moment, part of a glorious day filled with youthful joie de vivre, diversity, great ‘fits, & 💕 music. It reminded me that what sometimes gets called performative DOES matter, when it signals safety & manaakitanga to a stranger, a guest.
Every queer person deserves to feel safe 💚
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This is what Rainbow Windows of Wellington - and indeed all of Pride - is about. You are safe here, you are loved.
Y’all can be awesome like Violet and take flyers for Rainbow Windows of Wellington to your favourite stores abd cafes too! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Y’all can be awesome like Violet and take flyers for Rainbow Windows of Wellington to your favourite stores abd cafes too! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...
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Want to be a part of Aotearoa’s longest running Pride festival? Excellent, cos we need your help as volunteers!
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Want to be a part of Aotearoa’s longest running Pride festival? Excellent, cos we need your help as volunteers!
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Want to be a part of Aotearoa’s longest running Pride festival? Excellent, cos we need your help as volunteers!
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Want to be a part of Aotearoa’s longest running Pride festival? Excellent, cos we need your help as volunteers!
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In exchange, you’ll meet lovely new people, give back to your community and just all around be a champion. Your role can fit your time and your strengths docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Auckland Pride 2026 Festival 𝗡𝗴ā 𝗨𝗿𝗶 𝗘! 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 takes its name from an understanding that to be an uri is not simply to inherit, but to carry forward. To hold responsibility as well as possibility.
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The Auckland Pride 2026 Festival 𝗡𝗴ā 𝗨𝗿𝗶 𝗘! 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 takes its name from an understanding that to be an uri is not simply to inherit, but to carry forward. To hold responsibility as well as possibility.
“We’re trying to place our communities within the collective whakapapa…connect with people older than them so they have a sense of community” - great story about @aucklandpride.bsky.social (and we hope to do the same down here)
archive.ph/2026.02.01-0...
archive.ph/2026.02.01-0...
archive.ph
February 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
“We’re trying to place our communities within the collective whakapapa…connect with people older than them so they have a sense of community” - great story about @aucklandpride.bsky.social (and we hope to do the same down here)
archive.ph/2026.02.01-0...
archive.ph/2026.02.01-0...
There’s one space left! But after that you could go on the waiting list
Working with funding from Lower Hutt City Council, we’re really excited to be able to start offering FREE cooking classes for our rainbow community. Learn some new skills, make some new friends & eat some great food. Classes start next Wed so sign up now! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/they-ate
February 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
There’s one space left! But after that you could go on the waiting list
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I was really proud to be an expert witness for @wellingtonpride.bsky.social last year, and really blown away both by their care and manaakitanga as well as the incredible calibre of the other witnesses. Such a useful resource in these expert witness statements, thanks Pride for sharing them!
BUT, since we were forced to do that, we recognise that the work our amazing expert witnesses put into their briefs of evidence is an important community resource. With their permission, we are proud to share these briefs on our website now.
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/hrrt-evidence 2/2
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/hrrt-evidence 2/2
Wellington Pride Festival - the longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa New Zealand.
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I was really proud to be an expert witness for @wellingtonpride.bsky.social last year, and really blown away both by their care and manaakitanga as well as the incredible calibre of the other witnesses. Such a useful resource in these expert witness statements, thanks Pride for sharing them!
In an update to our time at the Human Rights Review Tribunal:
As you know, we never expected to go to court over our right to hold an event where trans*, non-binary, intersex, and all gender minority attendees would feel safe, accepted, and supported to be themselves.
1/2
As you know, we never expected to go to court over our right to hold an event where trans*, non-binary, intersex, and all gender minority attendees would feel safe, accepted, and supported to be themselves.
1/2
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 AM
In an update to our time at the Human Rights Review Tribunal:
As you know, we never expected to go to court over our right to hold an event where trans*, non-binary, intersex, and all gender minority attendees would feel safe, accepted, and supported to be themselves.
1/2
As you know, we never expected to go to court over our right to hold an event where trans*, non-binary, intersex, and all gender minority attendees would feel safe, accepted, and supported to be themselves.
1/2
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Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
Working with funding from Lower Hutt City Council, we’re really excited to be able to start offering FREE cooking classes for our rainbow community. Learn some new skills, make some new friends & eat some great food. Classes start next Wed so sign up now! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/they-ate
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Working with funding from Lower Hutt City Council, we’re really excited to be able to start offering FREE cooking classes for our rainbow community. Learn some new skills, make some new friends & eat some great food. Classes start next Wed so sign up now! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/they-ate
As part of Pride 2026, we're challenging local retailers to roll out the rainbow all over the city by taking part in Rainbow Windows of Wellington. Have you signed up yet? How about your favourite cafe or shop? There's fab prizes for the best windows! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
As part of Pride 2026, we're challenging local retailers to roll out the rainbow all over the city by taking part in Rainbow Windows of Wellington. Have you signed up yet? How about your favourite cafe or shop? There's fab prizes for the best windows! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...
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Thanks to Quilted Bananas Radio for having our chair Joanna on the show on Sunday to talk about all things Wellington Pride Festival - including a preview of some of the events happening in the festival, and also how to show up for the community.
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
QUILTED BANANAS Radio - Wellington Access Radio
accessradio.org.nz
February 2, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Thanks to Quilted Bananas Radio for having our chair Joanna on the show on Sunday to talk about all things Wellington Pride Festival - including a preview of some of the events happening in the festival, and also how to show up for the community.
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Thanks to Quilted Bananas Radio for having our chair Joanna on the show on Sunday to talk about all things Wellington Pride Festival - including a preview of some of the events happening in the festival, and also how to show up for the community.
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
QUILTED BANANAS Radio - Wellington Access Radio
accessradio.org.nz
February 2, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Thanks to Quilted Bananas Radio for having our chair Joanna on the show on Sunday to talk about all things Wellington Pride Festival - including a preview of some of the events happening in the festival, and also how to show up for the community.
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Have a listen accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcas...
Sounds like this guy is planning a kink event for Pride, which is nice
January 21, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Sounds like this guy is planning a kink event for Pride, which is nice
If we could give you a physical space for no cost for a couple of hours, what free community queer event would you like to put on in it?
A book club? Queer poetry reading? D'n D session for newbies? A meetup? Karaoke session? Heated Rivalry discussion group? Let us know!
(things are happening!)
A book club? Queer poetry reading? D'n D session for newbies? A meetup? Karaoke session? Heated Rivalry discussion group? Let us know!
(things are happening!)
January 20, 2026 at 1:08 AM
If we could give you a physical space for no cost for a couple of hours, what free community queer event would you like to put on in it?
A book club? Queer poetry reading? D'n D session for newbies? A meetup? Karaoke session? Heated Rivalry discussion group? Let us know!
(things are happening!)
A book club? Queer poetry reading? D'n D session for newbies? A meetup? Karaoke session? Heated Rivalry discussion group? Let us know!
(things are happening!)
Lulu wants attention and probably feeding, because her human has been too busy mapping out all the events y'all have submitted for the festival. No details yet but safe to say, we are very very very excited!
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Lulu wants attention and probably feeding, because her human has been too busy mapping out all the events y'all have submitted for the festival. No details yet but safe to say, we are very very very excited!
Got a physical business or work at one? Or maybe you just have a favourite store you visit all the time? Get them to decorate their windows with Pride and win!
Wellington Pride Festival
Retailers, get your rainbows ready - Wellington Pride is challenging businesses to roll out the rainbow across the city during the 2026 Pride Festival. Businesses are invited to decorate their windows...
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Got a physical business or work at one? Or maybe you just have a favourite store you visit all the time? Get them to decorate their windows with Pride and win!
As we wait for the last event applications to come in today ( for listing in the printed programme - you may have more time if your listing will just be digital), can our community please pledge to try to use a RANGE of songs in their posts from Pride this year?
January 15, 2026 at 11:36 PM
As we wait for the last event applications to come in today ( for listing in the printed programme - you may have more time if your listing will just be digital), can our community please pledge to try to use a RANGE of songs in their posts from Pride this year?
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Important hui in Te Whanganui-a-Tara this Saturday about next steps regarding the puberty blocker ban after its interim delay.
Organised by Queer Endurance in Defiance.
Time & location:
10:30am-12:30pm @Innermost Gardens, 31 Lawson Place, Mt Victoria.
#nzpol
Organised by Queer Endurance in Defiance.
Time & location:
10:30am-12:30pm @Innermost Gardens, 31 Lawson Place, Mt Victoria.
#nzpol
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Important hui in Te Whanganui-a-Tara this Saturday about next steps regarding the puberty blocker ban after its interim delay.
Organised by Queer Endurance in Defiance.
Time & location:
10:30am-12:30pm @Innermost Gardens, 31 Lawson Place, Mt Victoria.
#nzpol
Organised by Queer Endurance in Defiance.
Time & location:
10:30am-12:30pm @Innermost Gardens, 31 Lawson Place, Mt Victoria.
#nzpol
Hey community, if you want to put on an event as part of the Festival - and we hope you do - you gotta get your Expression of Interest in to us by tomorrow to make it into the printed programme!
All details are on our website - sing out w questions!
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...
All details are on our website - sing out w questions!
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Hey community, if you want to put on an event as part of the Festival - and we hope you do - you gotta get your Expression of Interest in to us by tomorrow to make it into the printed programme!
All details are on our website - sing out w questions!
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...
All details are on our website - sing out w questions!
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...
Our first newsletter for the year is out now, and is pretty much essential reading cos there's a whole lot going on! mailchi.mp/568b28b0469c...
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Our first newsletter for the year is out now, and is pretty much essential reading cos there's a whole lot going on! mailchi.mp/568b28b0469c...