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Thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you thank you thank you!

Now we’ve had a little time to rest our weary bones, everyone here on the Wellington Pride Festival board has a big list of people we’d like to thank. Pride 2025 was an amazing two weeks and it took an awful lot of help to make that happen!

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Download your guide to Out in the City
Download your guide to Out in the City

While you can read all about Out in the City on its event page, and check out the performer timetables, and a map, and a list of stallholders, we’ve also knocked together a PDF version, that you can download and print for yourselves. Wahoo!

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Celebrating our city of rainbows this weekend
Celebrating our city of rainbows this weekend

On Saturday Odlin’s Plaza will be full of rainbows and jubilation at Out in the City. On Sunday, the Pride Hīkoi will march to Parliament in solidarity with our trans* and gender minority whānau for rights to gender-affirming healthcare. Then on Sunday afternoon, we’ll relax at the Pride Picnic in the Botanic Gardens, featuring performances from Orchestra Wellington to bring the festival to a close. 

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The longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa.

The first Pride celebrations in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara were organised as part of campaigning for Homosexual Law Reform in 1986. Wellington Pride Festival traces back to Newtown Lesbian and Gay Fair, themed ‘a Fair for a fair law’.

Wellington Pride Festival now is an ever-growing annual Festival celebrating our rainbow whānau in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara.

Our grassroots, volunteer-led kaupapa is guided by Te Whāriki, which sets our strategic priorities for the future: a more inclusive and Te Tiriti o Waitangi-centred Pride Festival.

We’ll be starting work on WPF 2026 probably around May.

Read more about our kaupapa further down the page.

a speaker at a protest
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Someone on our hikoi holds a sign on a bicycle that says "I am queer, I am a taonga worth protecting"
Performers on stage
Someone reclines under a parasol at our picnic
A stallholder at Out in the City
Stallholders at Out in the City
Trans flags are raised at Parliament
A speaker on stage
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Our kaupapa

for the community,
by the community.

At Wellington Pride Festival, we pride ourselves on:

  • Diversity

  • Accessibility

  • Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi

We acknowledge that Pride is political.

We are committed to engaging in conversations about intersectional justice — and weaving that kaupapa into everything we do.

We will always show up and speak up for our community, to ensure safety and representation for all.