Wellington Pride Festival Human Rights Review Tribunal case
Wellington Pride Festival is being sued by representatives of a group in the Human Rights Review Tribunal
Wellington
Kia ora koutou
Wellington Pride Festival has claim brought against them by representatives of a group called Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa (LAVA). The case will be heard by the Human Rights Review Tribunal (HRRT) in July and September 2025.
In early 2021, Wellington Pride Festival (WPF) made the decision to not accept LAVA’s request for a stall at a gala event after the community alerted us to their views. LAVA is a small group of activists.
This was to protect trans*, non-binary, intersex, and all gender minority attendees who we wanted to feel safe, accepted, and supported to be themselves by everyone at Out in the City.
WPF representatives have been through two Human Rights Commission mediation processes with LAVA, but LAVA is insisting on taking us to the HRRT.
Given that this is a live case, we're limited in what we can say publicly at this stage. We will do our very best to answer questions from the community about what is happening and how it is going.
It’s really important that the rainbow community does not engage with Ms Oxley, Ms Curnow or LAVA about this case due to rules about intimidation between parties in the HRRT.
People who want to support WPF can help by donating to our Givealittle to raise money for upcoming expenses in the case, such as for our expert witness support (flights, transport, food etc) and other legal costs like printing etc.
previous page https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellington-pride-festival-legal-givealittle
About us
Wellington Pride Festival run the rainbown and queer community festival in Wellington / Pōneke.
Use of funds
Funds raised will be spent on supporting expert witnesses to help us and other legal costs. Any and all remaining funding left over will be donated to trans*/nonbinary support causes and charities.
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Why there's two pages 30 June 2025
Kia ora whānau, you may have donated to our previous Givealittle page for this cause, and that money is still in our bank account. However, that page had a closure date of 23 June, and we couldn't edit that, which is why we've opened another donation page.
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