Ticket FAQs

All festival tickets cover the entire weekend and include free camping. Glamping tents, car passes and bus tickets are purchased separately.

• Early bird, first release. $445 + booking fee. Sold out
• General release. $475 + booking fee. Sold out
• Final release. $495 + booking fee. Sold out

Every festival ticket has sold out. Glamping tents, car passes and bus tickets are still on sale through Humanitix.

Prices include GST. Humanitix adds a booking fee and some transaction fees depending on how you pay.

Yes. We ask for the name of every person coming, and the names must match legal ID, as we check them at the gate.

You can update the names on your tickets through Humanitix.

Yes. We're offering Humanitix's Pay in Instalments, along with AfterPay and Zip, so you can buy your tickets and glamping upfront and pay over time.

Set your accounts up with those providers in advance, and have a read of their terms and fees.

Camping is included with every festival ticket. Glamping tents, vehicle passes and bus tickets are separate.

Tickets are for the whole weekend. There's no single day ticket.

Resales open through Humanitix in a few weeks, and you can join the resale waitlist there. We're not accepting resale tickets from other platforms such as Tixel at this stage.

Please beware of scammers and scalpers. Don't exchange money for Gaytimes tickets with strangers on social media. If you buy or resell a ticket anywhere except through us, we can't verify it.

Gaytimes 2027 is sold out, but don’t panic. Resales open through Humanitix in a few weeks, so join the resale waitlist there.

For our 10th anniversary we expected demand to be high. In some years Gaytimes has sold out in minutes, and demand for the Ballot has exceeded the total capacity of the festival.

To reduce the stress of buying a ticket, and make it fairer for everyone, we offered 90% of full priced tickets in the Ballot. Everyone got a chance, whether you’re a Gaytimes veteran or a first time frolicker, and it helped us protect the diversity of our beautiful community.

It also helps protect the festival from scalpers, scammers and unethical resale practices.

We gave some weighting to protect the beautiful diversity of our existing community, including whether you’d been before, and the rest was random, so everyone had a chance.

For the first time in 2027 we're offering a cheaper ticket for people on low incomes, at $385 + booking fee.

It's for anyone on a low income, whether you're a full or part time student, a concession or healthcare card holder, a gig economy worker, in a low wage job, doing an apprenticeship, a full time creative or freelancer, or underemployed.

Applications ran alongside the Ballot and closed with it on Sunday 13 September.

One ticket per person, and they can't be resold. We won't ask for proof of concession or about your circumstances. We do ask that you don't apply unless you can't afford a full priced ticket, so these stay with the people who need them.

We offer heavily discounted or complimentary tickets for people in our community experiencing significant hardship.

Applications open in October through a discreet form on our website, stay open until the end of January, and are assessed case by case.

We hold a separate allocation of tickets for First Nations people, by application.

If you're Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, email hello@gaytimes.com.au.

Volunteer applications open in early October. Volunteers get a ticket in exchange for working two shifts, and it's a great way to meet people. We'll put the details on our website and email subscribers.

Paid roles for experienced crew come up from time to time and go on our website and socials. They tend to be short term, seasonal casual or contract, as Gaytimes has no full time employees.

To register your interest in joining the crew, email hello@gaytimes.com.au.

Gaytimes is an 18+ licensed event. You can't attend if you're under 18, and you can't bring anyone under 18 with you, even with a valid ticket. Photo ID is required at the gate.

Gaytimes is a boutique festival with a strictly limited capacity of 1500. We like to keep things intimate.

Gaytimes 2027 is a ticketed event. Trespassers will be prosecuted or evicted. If you don't have a wristband, or you remove yours, you may be evicted, referred to police, or asked to pay for a full priced ticket.

Your ticket goes directly towards the cost of staging Gaytimes. Like every festival in Australia, our costs have risen with inflation and the cost of living pressure across the live music and events industry, so we've had to lift prices a little to keep Gaytimes going sustainably. Our prices are still in line with other small camping festivals and below a lot of the major ones.

Unlike much larger festivals with 10,000+ patrons to share the load, we cover everything with about 1500 paying punters: venue hire, staging, production and lighting, marquees, stretch tents, power, portable toilets, fencing, insurance, licensing, security, first aid, Dancewize, catering, cleaning, waste, traffic management, permits and planning, transport, creative, artist fees, and more than 70 paid crew.

Where many smaller camping festivals run a single stage, or only DJs, or two days, we programme live music, performing arts and activities across multiple stages indoors and out, with over 100 artists and 50+ live acts and DJs each year. Similar ambition to festivals more than twice our size.

Prices are also set so we can offer discounted tickets to people on low incomes, people experiencing hardship, and First Nations attendees.

Gaytimes is a community-run festival, self-funded almost entirely through ticket and bar revenue. We get no ongoing government funding, major corporate sponsorship or philanthropic support. We run it as a labour of love. We pay our crew, our artists and our suppliers, and we rely on a lot of generosity: given our size, international and major artists often play for well below their fee, and our key crew work on this for months for much less than they'd normally get paid. Nobody makes a profit from this. We do it for our community.