Find out who won here…

• Pride Picnic this Sunday

• Vote in Rainbow Windows!

• Still more events to go!

• Thank you for the feedback!

• Media round-up post

Here’s some good news stories about the Festival so far

All you need to know to help you have an amazing day out!

• Out in the City is this Sunday

• Pooches in the Plaza this Sunday too

• Wellington Pride Youth Ball

• Come visit us at Pride HQ

• Out in Brewtown - 21 March

• Voting open now for Rainbow Windows of Wellington

In this issue - Festival programme out now, Out in Brewtown, They Ate, our other Signature Events, Rainbow Windows of Wellington, Pride HQ and an update on the HRRT court case

Want to be a part of Aotearoa’s longest running Pride festival? Excellent, cos we need your help as volunteers!

Read the Briefs of Evidence that our witnesses provided to the the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

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 and eat some great food. Win win win, right?

Want a stall at Out in the City, our all-day family friendly fair? Applications are open now!

Want to create an event as part of the Wellington Pride Festival? Here’s how you do that.

On Friday night, we had the absolute pleasure of giving a preview of Wellington Pride Festival 2026 to a wide range of community members, sponsors, politcians, artists, collaborators and other allies.

We have a ton of thank yous for the night…

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 by everyone at Out in the City. But we will always fight for the most vulnerable members of our community. And we want to thank everyone who stood with us. 

Stepping back as Co-Chair does not mean stepping away. You’ll still find me at our community engagement events, volunteering, and standing with Tīwhanawhana to offer our waiata tautoko whenever it’s needed.

Committee turnover, illness and a court case have left us stretched a little thin - maybe your skills are what we're looking for?

We want to introduce you to all the artists who’ve done amazing designs for our merch. Today: Jamie Renee…