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…

The WPF committee is responsible for our signature events but all other parts of the festival are created and run by our community. And our community includes YOU!

Thinking about putting on an event can be daunting if you haven’t done it before. We’ve put together this guide to help you get started.

Our film fundraisers on continue on 10 August with a screening of with Pride (2014), a story of grassroots activism and solidarity. Based on a true story, it depicts a group queer activists who raised funds to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984.