Event Submission

Approval Guidelines

The following guidelines determine whether your event will be approved for listing on Kikipedia. Please review these carefully before submitting your event because our form is long and we don't want you to waste your time.

1. Event Eligibility

First Of All: are you the organizer or someone directly involved with the event? If not, is the organizer aware that you are posting their event to our platform? While we appreciate community event contributions, we prefer that someone associated with the event in question is the one to submit the event. Nothing is more awkward than us having to reach out to an event organizer directly on social media to clarify something, only for them to have no idea who we are.

Note: As of January 2026, a point of contact email address is required on all event submissions. If we are unable to use that point of contact email address to verify that the submission was submitted by someone involved with the event, we will NOT approve the submission.

We accept most LGBTQ-centric events: drag shows, circuit parties, kink nights, dance parties, drag bingo, trivia at gay bars, pride parties (preference to those organized by LGBTQ people), etc...

Please keep in mind: While our demographic is typically 21+ and 18+ events, we do accept certain all-ages events.

2. Exclusions and Restrictions

To maintain platform relevance, quality, and user safety, the following types of events are typically not accepted:

• Event listings are not enabled for all areas; we will not approve any events that circumvent our submissions safeguards to prevent this
• General event periods (e.g. Bear Week, Pride Weeks, multi-day festivals, etc...) are managed separately from individual events and are currently only supported for focus areas
• Happy hours or drink special nights (this will be available as a separate feature in the future)
• Private events such as house parties
• Pride events at schools, colleges, or corporate offices
• Drag story hours (for the safety of participants / outside our demographic focus)
• Large tour-style events such as concerts and large-scale production shows

3. Venue Requirements

Events may be held at either:

• Preferred: An existing Kikipedia venue
• A new venue that can be verified via Google Maps

Note: New venues require additional verification time before event approval.

4. Best Practices

To ensure your event is listed effectively:

• Prefer Recurrence: We here at Kikipedia LOVE regularly recurring events and generic flyer graphics. They're easy to maintain, they're predictable, they scale well, and they're search engine optimized. We prefer regularly recurring events over individual event submissions for each occurrence, as that keeps things clean on our end. Verified users are welcome to update their existing recurring listings when themes change as well as mark skipped and off-schedule dates.
• Event Names: Please do not include the venue name in the event name - we automatically append it in most places
• Description: Provide detailed information to help people find your event. Please minimize emoji use, and keep in mind that our search engine ignores #hashtags
• Cost: List the typical cover or ticket price, or a range (e.g. $10 - $15)
• Links:
  • Event Page: A link to your event's official web page, social media event page, or your org's website
  • Tickets: A link to where people can purchase tickets
  • Reservations: Include reservation link, phone, or email, with any specific details in the description. Please note that any email address provided in this field will be publicly visible.

5. Right to Gatekeep

Kikipedia reserves the right to reject any event submission at our sole discretion, with or without cause, and without prior notice. While we strive to maintain clear guidelines, we may reject submissions that do not align with our platform's goals, values, or quality standards, even if they technically meet the requirements listed above.