https://wellington.gen.nz/gaybisexual https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/11/07/rw-condemns-minister-meeting-with-anti-trans-activist/ Rainbow Wellington is disappointed, but not surprised, that NZ First Minister Casey Costello met with Irish anti-trans activist Helen Joyce while she was in Pōneke this week. The post RW condemns Minister’s meeting with anti-trans activists appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/11/07/rw-condemns-minister-meeting-with-anti-trans-activist/ Rainbow Wellington 2025-11-07T00:00:00Z https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/grass-roots/ Grass Roots is a heartfelt and charming musical about the colossal culture of rugby. From club fields to Eden Park, a queer boy embarks on an epic odyssey through the New Zealand Rugby ages. gaybisexual rugby sport theatre performingarts Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/grass-roots/ Bats Theatre 2025-09-10T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/09/10/rainbow-wellington-to-host-mayoral-candidates-forum/ Rainbow Wellington has invited Pōneke's leading Mayoral contenders to our Rainbow Mayoral Forum. We're pleased to have Andrew Little, Karl Tiefenbacher and Alex Baker joining us to discuss everything from trans rights to social housing and Māori wards. The post Rainbow Wellington to host Mayoral Candidates Forum appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/09/10/rainbow-wellington-to-host-mayoral-candidates-forum/ Rainbow Wellington 2025-09-09T00:00:00Z https://toiponeke.nz/events/hewharemahana He Whare Mahana - a warm house, a full house, a cosy kainga to nurture your dreams and the infi nite queer possibilities. Tātou āhuru mōwai, nau mai, haere mai. exhibitions gaybisexual art toi-pneke museumsandgalleries Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://toiponeke.nz/events/hewharemahana Toi Pōneke 2025-08-13T00:00:00Z -41.296236050000005 174.77324350825376 Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand https://toiponeke.nz/events/2025/09/19/utu-housewarming Come along to the opening celebration of Te Whare Mahana - A Takatāpui Exhibition. You are invited to our housewarming party, a celebration of queer indigenous love. It’s virgo season, spring is blooming, Mahuru Māori is here, all your queer Māori dreams are possible! exhibitions gaybisexual art toi-pneke museumsandgalleries Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://toiponeke.nz/events/2025/09/19/utu-housewarming Toi Pōneke 2025-08-13T00:00:00Z -41.296236050000005 174.77324350825376 Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/07/24/rw-disappointed-sport-minister-scrapping-trans-inclusive-guidelines/ Rainbow Wellington is incredibly disappointed that Sports Minister Mark Mitchell has ordered Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa to remove the Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport document from their website. The post RW disappointed Sport Minister scrapping trans inclusive guidelines. appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/07/24/rw-disappointed-sport-minister-scrapping-trans-inclusive-guidelines/ Rainbow Wellington 2025-07-24T00:00:00Z https://www.salient.org.nz/post/queer-safe-tattoo-studios-so-you-ll-only-cry-because-of-the-blood-and-hours-of-pain By Maia Berryman-Kamp (They/she/ia), Te Arawa me Mataatua Wellington - gay, artistic, expensive. Nothing sums up the city like a series... gaybisexual media vuw education Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/queer-safe-tattoo-studios-so-you-ll-only-cry-because-of-the-blood-and-hours-of-pain Salient 2025-07-13T00:00:00Z http://www.armstrong-arthur-trust.nz/news/2025-funding-round-dates 2025 funding round closes on 30 September 2025 [...] gaybisexual wcnhosted Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://www.armstrong-arthur-trust.nz/news/2025-funding-round-dates Armstrong and Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians 2025-06-14T00:00:00Z https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/05/19/agm-notice-2025/ The Committee would like to advise you that the Annual General Meeting of Rainbow Wellington Inc for 2025 will be held on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, at 5:30 PM. The venue, in Central Wellington, and a link to attend online will be sent to current financial Members closer to the time. If you are a current… Read More »AGM Notice 2025 The post AGM Notice 2025 appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/05/19/agm-notice-2025/ Rainbow Wellington 2025-05-19T00:00:00Z https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/epic-way-im-gay-oui-oui-faguettetm-i-love-kim-hill-1999-version/ Faguette1 [fag-ghet] - french word for faggot Faguettedom1 [fag-ghet-dom] - french word for safe space for queer people gaybisexual theatre performingarts Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/epic-way-im-gay-oui-oui-faguettetm-i-love-kim-hill-1999-version/ Bats Theatre 2025-03-27T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/epic-way-im-gay-oui-oui-faguettetm-i-love-kim-hill-1999-version-fringe/ Faguette1 [fag-ghet] - french word for faggot Faguettedom1 [fag-ghet-dom] - french word for safe space for queer people gaybisexual theatre performingarts Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/epic-way-im-gay-oui-oui-faguettetm-i-love-kim-hill-1999-version-fringe/ Bats Theatre 2025-03-27T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/02/17/rainbow-wellington-shocked-by-aggression-at-rainbow-events/ Rainbow Wellington, like many in Aotearoa, is shocked and upset by the displays of aggression against rainbow events in Tāmaki Makaurau The post Rainbow Wellington shocked by aggression at rainbow events appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/02/17/rainbow-wellington-shocked-by-aggression-at-rainbow-events/ Rainbow Wellington 2025-02-17T00:00:00Z http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2025/1/8/our-website-is-closing-but-we-are-dancing-on Kia ora koutou Nga mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou - Happy New Year! We are looking forward to another year of same-sex dance classes on Sunday evenings at Thistle Hall in Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual performingarts wcnhosted Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2025/1/8/our-website-is-closing-but-we-are-dancing-on Danss 2025-01-08T00:00:00Z -41.29736355 174.77365784691114 Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand https://www.newtownfestival.org.nz/burnt-indigo/ We are a queer youth band from SWIS/Wellington High. We mainly do covers but we have an orginal song we are currently writing gaybisexual newtown places events wcnhosted Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.newtownfestival.org.nz/burnt-indigo/ Newtown Festival 2024-12-17T00:00:00Z https://toiponeke.nz/events/bent A team of local creatives from Wellington's zine scene have created illustrated portraits, historical protest art, photography, fanart and writing for BENT - a new collaborative zine series looking at our city’s subcultural and queer communities. The exhibition shows off their work in a collection of over fifty risograph-printed pieces. art exhibitions gaybisexual toi-pneke museumsandgalleries Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:09:49 GMT https://toiponeke.nz/events/bent Toi Pōneke 2024-12-01T23:09:49Z -41.296236050000005 174.77324350825376 Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand https://wellingtonfilms.nz/is-it-not-queer-derek-jarman-and-the-shifting-identities-of-edward-ii/ WFS committee member Russ Kale looks back on his first encounter with Edward II, and tries to uncover what Jarman was saying about queer identity. In 2006, I moved to Te Whanganui-a-Tara for university. This was my first time living in a city that had a recognisable queer community, and of course my first strategy […] gaybisexual cinema communitygroups wcnhosted Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:09:13 GMT https://wellingtonfilms.nz/is-it-not-queer-derek-jarman-and-the-shifting-identities-of-edward-ii/ Wellington Film Society 2024-10-03T10:09:13Z https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/jez-jace/ An improvised, queer, bogan road-trip comedy that is hilarious, heartfelt and fun. gaybisexual theatre performingarts Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/jez-jace/ Bats Theatre 2024-09-27T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/dungeons-delinquents-be-gay-do-crime/ It’s time… for crime. Queer Crime. Join Wellington-based Dungeons and Dragons podcast Last In Initiative in a law-defying, action-packed romp into the depths of the seedy criminal underworld. gaybisexual theatre performingarts Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/dungeons-delinquents-be-gay-do-crime/ Bats Theatre 2024-09-19T00:00:00Z -41.293595249999996 174.7846181 BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://www.armstrong-arthur-trust.nz/news/alison-jean-laurie-1941-2024 It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Alison Laurie on 16 August 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she had been living. Alison worked with the original donor, Bea Arthur, to found the Armstrong and Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians in 2001. She was the Trust’s first Chair. [...] gaybisexual wcnhosted Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://www.armstrong-arthur-trust.nz/news/alison-jean-laurie-1941-2024 Armstrong and Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/7/13/julyaugust-classes Kia ora koutou Beat the winter blues with some same-sex dancing. communitygroups gaybisexual performingarts wcnhosted Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/7/13/julyaugust-classes Danss 2024-07-13T00:00:00Z -41.29736355 174.77365784691114 Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/rainbow-wellington-disappointed-by-drag-story-time-cancellation/ Rainbow Wellington is deeply disappointed in the actions of some groups, which has resulted in the cancellation of the Drag Story Time event that was planned for the Upper Hutt Library. The Committee of Rainbow Wellington released this statement. The post Rainbow Wellington Disappointed By Drag Story Time Cancellation appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. upper-hutt libraries huttvalley places communitygroups gaybisexual Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/rainbow-wellington-disappointed-by-drag-story-time-cancellation/ Rainbow Wellington 2024-07-03T00:00:00Z -41.1240674 175.0699589 Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/elementor-1964/ The 2024 AGM was held on the 21st of May, and celebrated the great successes of the previous year The post 2024 AGM appeared first on Rainbow Wellington. communitygroups gaybisexual Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/elementor-1964/ Rainbow Wellington 2024-07-03T00:00:00Z https://www.salient.org.nz/post/review-dating-s-a-drag-1 Dating apps have seen a decrease in usage, signalling a shift in the way people want to approach dating. Selina Simone and Homer Neurotic, two of Wellington's popular drag performers, have come up with a unique solution: Dating's a Drag (pun intended). This event has become an annual occurrence, specifically catering to members of the queer community. I recently attended their She 4 Her event at Mishmosh on May 24th. They also have a They 4 Them event planned for June 7th and an inclusive Queer 4 Queer event scheduled for June 21st. gaybisexual media vuw education Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/review-dating-s-a-drag-1 Salient 2024-05-28T00:00:00Z https://www.salient.org.nz/post/p%C5%8Dneke-protest On Saturday the 18th of May, Inflection Point, which identifies itself as “a group for middle NZ that has become ‘The oppressed majority’”, hosted an event at Wellington's Tākina convention centre. The event, titled ‘Unsilenced: Middle New Zealand on Ideology’, was attended by a delightful collection of virulent anti-trans campaigners, including the frothingly homophobic culture war ‘apostle’ Brian Tamaki, celebrity bigot ‘Posie Parker’ (via video-link), Tanya Unkovich, a current MP for NZF, and Simon O’Conner, a former MP for National. gaybisexual media vuw education Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/p%C5%8Dneke-protest Salient 2024-05-26T00:00:00Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://www.salient.org.nz/post/uniq-participation-trophy-progress-the-state-of-queer-rights-on-campus Words by Khai (They/Them) Ah, student life. Lectures, two-minute noodles, that existential dread that lingers like a flatmate who won't... gaybisexual media vuw education Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/uniq-participation-trophy-progress-the-state-of-queer-rights-on-campus Salient 2024-05-12T00:00:00Z http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/4/6/april-may-timetable Kia ora everyone - here’s the timetable for the next six weeks. communitygroups gaybisexual performingarts wcnhosted Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/4/6/april-may-timetable Danss 2024-04-05T00:00:00Z -41.29736355 174.77365784691114 Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand https://www.thistlehall.org.nz/james-graves/boys BOYS is a celebration of queer male identity through intricate and lavish collage. gaybisexual cubastreet places wcnhosted art exhibitions Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.thistlehall.org.nz/james-graves/boys Thistle Hall Community Venue 2024-03-18T00:00:00Z -41.29736355 174.77365784691114 Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand https://www.thistlehall.org.nz/index.php/rainbow-and-takatapui-artists-around-aotearoa/broccoli-x-queer-joy The uniting visual theme of this art exhibition is the broccoli, which our team has embraced as a symbol of queer joy and frivolity during this difficult time for our rainbow communities. With transphobia and online hate speech continuing to rise, we wanted to create a space of joy and silliness that gave a platform to rainbow artists of all generations and backgrounds. art exhibitions gaybisexual cubastreet places wcnhosted Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.thistlehall.org.nz/index.php/rainbow-and-takatapui-artists-around-aotearoa/broccoli-x-queer-joy Thistle Hall Community Venue 2024-03-12T00:00:00Z -41.29736355 174.77365784691114 Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand https://www.salient.org.nz/post/review-an-old-fashioned-lesbian-love-story Whisking us back to a world of swing jazz and giggle juice, Bars Behind Bars is an immersive experience. From the moment the audience enters, the actors are scattered about, welcoming us, having secret conversations in the hallway, sending us back in time. The show begins with a fourth-wall-breaking introduction to the characters and their lives at The Cat’s Pajamas, an illicit bar in Manhattan during the prohibition. When the bar’s owner is murdered in the back room, his wife Annie is the primary suspect of the interrogation. gaybisexual reviews theatre performingarts media vuw education Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/review-an-old-fashioned-lesbian-love-story Salient 2024-03-03T00:00:00Z -41.2910611 174.7771887 Ivy Bar, Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://enjoy.org.nz/blog/2024/02/proposal-for-a-body-reading-list Proposal for a Body posits that sound and text-matter are mediums that can be regarded as inherently queer in their expansive and corporally liminal states. Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett draw on the music and writing of artists Loren Connors and Kim Gordon to communicate through sound and poetry abstract-experience; what is inexplicable. gaybisexual art cubastreet places museumsandgalleries Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://enjoy.org.nz/blog/2024/02/proposal-for-a-body-reading-list Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 2024-02-23T00:00:00Z -41.2926017 174.7755377 Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 211, Left Bank, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand