Lesbian Wellington
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Wellington Pride Festival 2021
13 - 27 March ... all over town
It's coming - with a few changes from recent years. Out in the Park moves to the Michael Fowler Centre as Out in the City on Saturday 27 March, coinciding with Cuba Dupa. Visit the Pride website or the Pride facebook page for more information. The major events:
- He Taāngata - the official gala opening Saturday 13 March 7pm, The Opera House. Tickets on sale at bit.ly/3plh2ZS
- Pride Youth Ball: INTERGALACTIC Saturday 20 March 6-10pm, Hunter Lounge, Victoria University. Tickets from eventfinda
- Pride Hīkoi Saturday 27 11am, from Civic Square
- Out in the City Saturday 27 noon - 5pm, Michael Fowler Centre - successor to Out in the Park
Register your interest on the Pride website if you wish to hold an event or participate. Keep up to date on the Pride Festival facebook page.
Wellington International Pride Parade Saturday 10th April
Registrations are open on the WIPP website. Like the facebook event page for more announcements. Volunteers needed.
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
Please include contact details for several referees from the local lesbian community
with your request. Leonie will get in touch with the referees as it is important
to keep the list safe.
If you were once on the email list but have not received any messages for a long while
you may need to rejoin.
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, attachments and images are not sent out.
- And please keep your message simple - strip out earlier email messages to save Leonie having to do it!
Support Kiwi groups supporting LGBTIQ youth
Let's support the groups and organisations that support the youth in our communities - they are always short of $$$ for their valuable work. Most are registered charities and have Donate pages on their websites.
- OuterSpaces is a charitable trust which operates as the parent organisation for three LGBTIQ+ youth groups, based in Wellington - School's Out, Tranzform, Naming New Zealand and Wellington Binder Exchange.
- InsideOUT is a national organisation that works to make Aotearoa a safer place for all young people of diverse genders and sexualities to live and be in.
- Im Local - a project of Rainbow Youth that helps queer and gender diverse youth all over the country to feel valued, recognised and supported in their local communities. They focus on getting i nformation into rural areas. I'm Local has a give a little page we can support.
- Rainbow Youth - Auckland based group that initiates and supports projects nationwide including InsideOUT and Im Local.
- OUTLineNZ provides a free confidential telephone help line from Auckland for Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Takataapui (GLBTT) - 0800 688 5463 (0800 OUTLINE). For all ages and an important service. They have a givealittle page.
