Welcome
Our origins are in Wellington but with the help of OUTLineNZ in Auckland, and other organisations, we aim to provide information of interest to the nation-wide GLBTI community.
The content on this site is organized as about 470 Articles and Listings and growing. Each item has a page of its own and to help you find what you want we rely heavily on lists, search and tags. For a quick start use the top tags on the right of each page. Alternatively use the search box. We have a separate page of tips on How to get the best from this site.
This site is a work in progress with many new things in the pipeline to help you find what you need and to help other organisations to share what is here.
One thing you can be sure will not change: this is a family-friendly site and we have strong processes in place to ensure that it is a safe place for young people to explore.
So, watch this space - we're changing!
We and those who list with us have recently been bombarded with spam through the email facility. For that reason we have temporarily withdrawn the email forms.
A more secure contact form will be provided shortly.
Gay Line thanks the Rule Foundation for funding Gay Line from its start in the year 2000 and for funding technical development of this new web site. Without their support this web site would not be here.
Gay Line and OUTLineNZ are sharing data on this site and the work of creating and maintaining articles and listings. Initially OutLineNZ plan to use this data for their telephone counselling service and later for a redeveloped web site. We thank them for their work that they are doing to help us bring you a more comprehensive web site.
About Gay Line Wellington
From the group's inception in 1972 its main focus has been the Telephone Help Line, originally Gayline, but since 1982 has been Gayline/Lesbianline.
At present the group has over 70 active telephone volunteers who have all had good basic training and undertaken on-going training and supervision. A few of these are women, but we are always looking to increase the number of women in the group. The Co-ordinator/Trainer is responsible for administration, recruitment, training and supervision. All staff - voluntary or paid - are gay or lesbian. Read more
We are always looking for new members, so go to the Get Involved page to find out how you can help.
Our Objectives
The organisation's objectives are to provide support, information and counselling to gay and lesbian people and their significant others through the Gayline/Lesbianline telephone counselling service,face-to-face counselling, referral and support groups.
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Wellington Region Dads Group
This group is rather unique in that it currently still operates as it initially begun in 1989: on an informal basis with no formal membership. Guys who are interested in joining either phone or email the faciliator of the group, who explains the concepts of the group: essentially a social group of like-minded gay dads, but support is available for anyone requesting it. Monthly potluck dinners or lunch are held in a member’s home, with a restaurant dinner held usually once year. Partners or a friend is also welcome. The same concept still happens today, except the social events are now a little less frequent, as the numbers attending functions have declined from earlier years, because some members have left Wellington and some have passed over. Read more
How to Get the Best from this Site
Essentially every page on this site is either an Article or a Listing. Listings have special facilities for displaying contact information. Each Article or Listing has its own page.
For a quick start you can see a list of articles or listings but, because there are many of each (hundreds of listings!) the lists are quite unweildy and can take a while to explore. But they are in date order with the latest articles at the top of the list. This is a way of finding new content.Try this by using the menu items at the top of the page and then click on the title of one of special interest.
Next, to focus more on your interest, try the top tags at the right. This will provide a list of all items that have the same tag. Again click on one that has special interest.
Alternatively, to focus more on your interest, try the search box at the top right. This will provide a list of all items that contain your search terms. Again click on one that has special interest. You may use several words and results will include items that have those words. For instance, if you would prefer to see items that cover accommodation in Wellington but dont want to be swamped by Auckland listings use the search terms `Wellington' and `acccommodation' (without the inverted commas).
Next, find an article that comes somewhere near providing the information you want. Then click on a tag near the bottom of the page that seems to be interesting and you will get a list of all pages that have the same tag. That way you will get a list of related articles and one of those might be what you want. You can repeat the process as often as you wish until all possibilities have been exhausted.
The system will be developed further later to enable you to filter out unwanted pages. This site is a work in progress and new things will be offered as time and resources permit.
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This Site is a Work in Progress
This site is a work in progress and has it's origins in the manually coded, flat, menu driven, inflexible and hard to maintain site that had been in existence since the year 2000. Now we have a data base supported Drupal site that has the potential to grow in many new ways.
Currently our new database supports two sites, this one for Gay Line and another for OUTLine to use as a support for its telephone counselling service and later as a public web site. We have the potential to support several different and independent sites and to share information between these sites and discussions are under way on this. Later some organisations that are simply listings on this site rather than web sites in their own right will be able to update their own information. These facilities will greatly reduce the work load of keeping information up to date and that work load can be distributed.
Finding out is what this site is for and we will be adding to the facilities to make that easier as the site grows. An early addition is likely to be a tag cloud to enhance the capability of the tag system. Filters will also help to find that tiny scrap of information that may be hidden under the mountain of Auckland stuff. Compound searches will provide more focused results as will an hierarchical system for tags.
A calendar of events is planned and we hope that organisations will eventually be able to keep their own part of that up to date.
This is going to involve many organisations and Gay Line will encourage those organisations to form a management organisation to take over the infrastructure and drive further growth. Gay Line was funded by the Rule Foundation to get to this point and will step back when the management organisation is formed.
We are right at the beginning of an exciting new phase and would like to hear from you about your ideas of where we might take this system.
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