MARCH 21-23 2025

GEMBROOK, VICTORIA

MUSIC + ART + CAMPING

BALLOT IS NOW CLOSED

First Round Ballot tickets will go on sale on
Tuesday Oct 15th at 9am.

Second Round Ballot tickets will go on sale on
Friday Oct 18th at 9am.

Ballot recipients will be notified by email.

If you aren’t successful in the First Round Ballot, you will automatically get another chance in the Second Round Ballot.

Being drawn in the Ballot is not a guarantee of a ticket. For each Ballot draw, you will have the opportunity to purchase a maximum of four (4) tickets on a first in, best dressed basis.

If you miss out in the Ballot, you will have the opportunity to buy tickets when all remaining tickets go on General Public Sale.

General Public Sale tickets will go on sale on
Tuesday Oct 22rd at 9am AEDT.

Gaytimes is a boutique festival with a strictly limited capacity of under 2000, so demand for the ballot exceeds the total ticket allocation.

Given the festival has sold-out in a matter of minutes in previous years, your best chance of securing a ticket will be by registering for the ballot.

An allocation of Hardship and First Nations tickets will be available by application after the Ballot closes.

Volunteer applications and Artist submissions will also open soon. Further information and FAQS will be released on our website. Resale tickets will only be available through Humanitix.

A Message From Us

Gaytimes is an independently run, grassroots community festival run by and for the queer community as a labour of love (not for profit), with support of many volunteers.
Gaytimes is the first queer music festival in the world, and the only queer camping music festival in Australia,
This is an art project to throw the best queer party on earth — and we hope we make it better every year.


We are so grateful to all of those who have supported the festival by buying a ticket (or volunteering, performing or working the event) over the years. The uniquely beautiful crowd and community is what makes the festival so magical.

But this year, we have a favour to ask: if you have the means, please buy your ticket early. Last year, 80% of our tickets were sold in the first day, and that support made it possible for us to stage the festival — even though we still lost money.

Gaytimes has no significant government funding or corporate sponsorship, so we rely on ticket and bar revenue to fund the festival each year, and ensure it remains a boutique event. That means, we rely entirely on your support to keep this dream alive.

As the cost of living has gone up, so too have the costs of staging festivals in recent years — including dramatic increases in the costs of hiring equipment, touring and insurances. Like many other festivals in Australia and around the world, Gaytimes has struggled to absorb these cost increases and continue to operate, and we’ve also struggled with ticket scammers (which is why resale tickets will be limited to Humanitix this year).

After nearly a decade, we are working hard to secure the festival’s future and we want to see the festival continue for the next decade to come. But without your support, this year might be our last.

We cannot wait to share this year’s lineup with you, and gather for queer utopia.

x GT