Lesbian Wellington

Wellington Pride Festival March 4  - 18 2023

The dates for Wellington Pride Festival 2023 have been announced and the Board are calling for registration of events. The closing date for inclusion of events in the printed programme is Friday 6th January ... more on the Pride Festival website ... follow on facebook

The dates for major events have been announced:

• Sat 4th:  Opeing Gala and Official Pride Hikoi
• Sat 11th: Youth Ball
• Sat 18th: Out in the City

Cervical cancer screening online survey

Do you take part in cervical screening? Why/why not?

Currently very little is known about non-heterosexual women's engagement in cervical screening in Aotearoa - and the reasons we do, or do not, engage with this process. Please consider contributing to this important Kaupapa. Follow this link to find out more about the research and/or to participate in the survey.

Sonja Ellis is undertaking this study exploring non-heterosexual women's engagement with cervical screening. Sonja is a lesbian, and an experienced researcher in both sexual and gender diversity and sexual health. She is an Associate Professor in Te Kura Toi Tangata (School of Education) at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. The research has received some funding from the Waikato Graduate Women Educational Trust - it is not in any way funded, or connected to, any health care entities. Contact Sonja at sonja.ellis@waikato.ac.nz

Elder voices online survey

Elder Voices is an online survey about life for Takatapui and Rainbow Elders, developed by Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura and Rainbow Hub Waikato. The findings from this survey will be used to create a report to inform plans and services for Takatāpui and Rainbow Elders.
The survey is open to everyone over 55 who knows they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, non-binary, intersex or Takatāpui. People do not need to be “out” to anyone else to take part. The survey will be open until 20 December 2022. You can go to the survey via this link: bit.ly/3qdLK9A.

You can find out more about Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura and Rainbow Hub Waikato by visiting their websites: kahukura.co.nz and rainbowhubwaikato.org.nz.

Armstrong & Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians

The Armstrong and Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians was established in 2001 by the late Bea Arthur for the benefit of lesbian community groups in the Wellington region. The Trust is named to recognise and remember the 57 year relationship of Bea and her partner the late Bette Armstrong. The Trustees invite applications for funding assistance, as grants, for projects and activities that will benefit all or part of the lesbian communities in the Wellington region. Visit the Trust website www.armstrong-arthur-trust.nz for information about how to apply for grants, and how to donate or make bequests to the Trust.

Application forms and guidelines are available from the Trust's website.

Leonie's email list

This is a service for distributing your notices to the lesbian community. To join the list, email leonies.email.list@lesbian.net.nz.
If you were once on the email list but have not received any messages for a long while you may need to rejoin - email Leonie.

Once you are on the list, you can send email notices to the same address for distribution. Any notice that will help or inform us as lesbians is sent out.

• When sending in a notice please include any relevant contact info in the content of the message or at the end - your email address in your message's header will be stripped out before the notice is distributed.
• Political notices and attachments are not sent out.
• And please keep your message simple - strip out earlier email messages to save Leonie having to do it!