Organisations

• AGENDER NZ Inc
• Amazon Softball Club Inc
• Gay Donor Dads Group
• gQ Network
• FTM Aotearoa
• Gay and Bisexual Dads
• Gay Blacks Wellington
• Gay Wellington Helpline
• Intersex Trust of Aotearoa NZ
• Lesbian and Gay Archives of NZ (LAGANZ)
• LILAC
• NZtransguys
• Rainbow Wellington
• Reel Queer Inc
• School’s Out
• Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Wellington
• The Homophones - Wellington Gay Men's Chorus
• UniQ Victoria
• Wellington Asexual Group
• Wellington Rape Crisis
• Wellington Vegetarian Lesbian Dining Group
• Youthline

AGENDER NZ Inc

$30 annual fee. No charge for the provision of information.
Support group for all transgendered people.

Amazon Softball Club Inc

Amazon Softball Club Incorporated, is Wellington’s only Lesbian softball club and has been going strong for 30 years. Membership of the Club is confined to self-identified lesbians though we welcome supporters of all genders and sexual orientation.

Training: Martin Luckie Park, Berhampore, Wednesdays 6 - 7.30pm during summer. See Thursday’s Dominion Post for game times and venues.

The Club is an affiliated member of the Wellington Softball Association and currently has two teams in competitive and social grades.

The object of the Club is to promote and make accessible the game of softball within the lesbian community in the greater Wellington region.

Gay Donor Dads Group

A group for gay guys who are donor dads and active in the parenting of their children. Guys who want to be fathers are also welcome.

gQ Network

The gQ Network is an informal Wellington-based network of GLBTI government sector employees and their friends. gQ Network stands for `government Queer Network'.

gQ Network organise a get together once a month (on the first Thursday of every month) usually at the Parliament end of town, and also send out regular email notices about events of interest to the GLBTI communities.

FTM Aotearoa

There are many types of men within our community who affiliate to many types of interests. Some men who started life in the wrong biological body, identify with the term gender dysphoric, transsexual or transgender. FTM Aotearoa is but one of many support networks, designed for those who feel they fit within this concept with a Maori basis of nurturing the spirit (wairua). This nurturing can also extend to friends and family if they so wish. FTM Aotearoa is about real everyday life.

If you are considering FTM Aotearoa as an avenue for you to pursue or rekindle – please do not hesitate to make contact – “everything to gain, nothing to lose”

These words from a well known Maori proverb depict FTM Aotearoa’s vision

Gay and Bisexual Dads

A support and social group for gay dads who meet monthly over a pot luck dinner and a drink

Gay Blacks Wellington

Gay Blacks has been formed in Wellington and Christchurch comprising those intending to travel to various gay cultural and sporting events. Past involvement included the Gay Games, Chicago and Outgames, Montreal in July/August 2006, and Outgames, Melbourne 2008.

The Gay Blacks will aim to assist those who wish to compete at events by providing:

• A co-ordinated approach to a team uniform
• Access to information on travel and accomodation opportunities
• A reference point for those people intending to participate both before and during the games.

Gay Wellington Helpline

Help and information.

Under the umbrella group, Gay Wellington Welfare Group, Gay Wellington Helpline offers information, support and referrals to people who are or think they might be gay or bisexual. It also provides a social/narrative group for newcomers (those just coming out as gay/bisexual - separate groups for men and women), a group for school youth (Schools Out), a social and support group for 18 - 25 year olds (G.L.B.T Sandwitch), and a new group for 30ish and under who identify as other genders (TRANZform).

Intersex Trust of Aotearoa NZ

ITANZ is a New Zealand registered charitable trust and provides information/education and training for organisations and professionals who provide services to intersex people and their families.

Lesbian and Gay Archives of NZ (LAGANZ)

LAGANZ (founded in 1977) is a research library and archives which preserves and makes available to the public the accumulated records of the gay and lesbian movements in New Zealand. Housed within the Alexander Turnbull Library in the National Library of NZ it contains photographs, manuscripts, archives, books, periodicals, newspapers and audio and visual materials. Material can be consulted on the premises but there is no lending. LAGANZ is a registered charitable trust.

LAGANZ aims to collect, preserve and make available the historical and cultural records of lesbians, gay men and our communities.

LILAC

Lesbian Information and library centre. Over 2000 lesbian books, DVDs, videos, latest overseas and local magazines.

NZtransguys

A NZ e-group for trans guys (FtMs) that has over 90 members throughout Aotearoa. Members have access to resources and contacts. The e-group offers confidentiality and respect for the different choices that trans guys make. It is open to anyone born "female" who does not identify with that label. Most of the group members live as trans men. However the group is also a supportive place for anyone born female who is questioning their gender identity, and those who identity as gender queer etc.

Rainbow Wellington

Rainbow Wellington, The Wellington Rainbow Network. Networking, social and political group for LGBTI communities.

Click here for Rainbow Wellington activities.

Reel Queer Inc

Reel Queer organises the Out Takes gay and lesbian film festival that ordinarily takes place in May and June each year. There is no festival in 2008; there will be occasional film screenings in 2008 and early 2009 to fundraise for a festival in 2009. Volunteers are welcome.

Reel Queer welcomes submissions and enquiries from film makers and interest from volunteers who can help to organise the festival and special fundraising screenings. The festival will tour to Auckland and Christchurch in 2009.

School’s Out

School's Out is a support / hangout group for young people and school aged people, identifying as queer, transgender, takataapui, intersex, fa'afafine, gay, lesbian, bisexual, questioning, and their friends. We meet in Wellington city on Thursdays, 3:30-5pm

School's Out on Demand - A forum for young queer people to voice, air and express what's going on for them, the things that affect them, and the challenges they face.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Wellington

Wellington SLAA Intergroup

Recovery programme for people who have obsessive/compulsive patterns of behaviour for sex or emotions; destructive to career, family, or self-respect. Also for people with compulsive needs for sex, extreme dependency on one (or many) people, or anorexic.

A 12 step programme based on the Alcoholics Anonymous model.

The Homophones - Wellington Gay Men's Chorus

The Homphones formed at the end of 2007 as a community male-voice choir open to all who wish to participate. We have a professional musical director and our gigs for 2008 included our inaugural concert, Around the World with Twenty Gays, in November. In 2009 we will be performing at gay community events and presenting concerts in July and November. We continue to welcome new members. Everyone likes to sing, even if only in the shower, and the ability to read music is not essential. There are no auditions - just come along to a rehearsal and see how you enjoy it!

The group meets weekly on Thursday evenings at St Mary of the Angels' Church Hall in Boulcott St (up the hill from the church on the left) for a two hour practice. Anyone interested is welcome to make contact by e-mail or simply turn up.

UniQ Victoria

Queer Student group at Victoria University. All students are welcome. Meeting notices published in Salient Magazine, and through our Mailing list. For more information, or to join our mailing list, contact via e-mail address or check out the web site.

Wellington Asexual Group

The Wellington Asexual Group meets occasionally at a cafe in the CBD.

See also our article about asexuality.

Wellington Rape Crisis

Wellington Rape Crisis provides free, accessible and professional support, information, counselling and advocacy for women survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their family, friends and Whanau.

Also provides free comprehensive education for secondary schools and community groups.

Wellington Rape Crisis has a committment to the Treaty of Waitangi and acknowledges Maori as Tangata Whenua with Tino Rangatiratanga.

As a group we are committed to the elimination of rape and sexual abuse and the empowerment of women and children by raising community awareness through political action, education and the provision of healing and support services.

Wellington Vegetarian Lesbian Dining Group

The group meets regularly (once every 6-8 weeks) at either restaurants or at hosted pot lucks. This meal will be at a cheapish restaurant (under $20 for a main) and attendees will pay only for what they have ordered.

The group is open to all who enjoy vegetarian and vegan food, with the proviso that only vegan/vegetarian food is ordered when dining out with the group. Pot lucks will be vegan so that all can enjoy what is shared. We can help with vegan recipes if you are challenged!

Youthline

Free, confidential, gay friendly counselling, information and referral service

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