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UPCOMING EVENTS
A month-long comedy festival running throughout September 2026 featuring a mix of local stand-up, touring headliners, indie shows, live podcasts, and alternative comedy formats spread across multiple venues in the city.
Co-authored and performed by dance artists Ziyian Kwan and Shion Skye Carter, rhymes with rain is an expressive duet exploring themes of rupture, memory, and repair through a collaborative blend of movement, text, and media design. Sept 16-20. 24-27.
If you love to sing, you love queer community, and you're looking for a fun evening out to meet new friends and make music together, our choir is for you!
Kick off this Oktoberfest season with a unique and heartfelt cultural experience featuring the best local beer, bratwurst, buxom beauties and bouncing booties. Must be 19 years or up.
The zombies are coming! Even worse, they're QUEER! And they're doing IMPROV and TRIVIA! Laugh with us in this fundraiser for Glitch Theatre!
Calling all wine lovers, come on in and sip your way through our cast of dazzling burlesque performers.
Come see Bliss take on the Music industry one Album at a time! This months record is Prima by Adela!
Looking for a wholesome laugh or to try out some comedy? Our community open mic is a place for comedy lovers to connect and laugh!
Blending stand-up with drunk book club, Ribald is a vulgar English lesson, a chronic overshare, and an unexpected return to the stage for this moderately celebrated comedian and author.
Queer dance party celebrating the Harvest Moon. It features DJs and live performing artists working in various electronic genres
Join us for a fabulous brunch filled with drag performances, delicious food, and endless fun!
It is officially time to rally the crew. We are throwing the ultimate Women's Only 25+ Lesbian Dance Night.
Get ready to blast off with cosmic tunes, stellar acts, and out-of-this-world vibes live on stage!
Bells and Whistles Burlesque features a taste of music, and drag, plus and a copious serving of burlesque.
Come see Vancouvers favourite drag artists in the best show on davie at numbers
This is an ICONIC event bringing together kings who have been performing for over 20 years 🤯 alongside the newest generation of drag. We’re getting hunky, funky, faggy & braggy
Get ready for not just a regular drag brunch but a spectacular fusion of burlesque, belly dancing, Bollywood, comedy, and games!
A group Photowalk for LGTBQIA2S+ folks who identify as having lived experience with mental health and/or addictions challenges.
Rocky Riobo is queer Colombian-Canadian jazz artist and theatrical storyteller, and this is the opening night of her 18-month Fable Tour exploring love, identity, belonging and becoming through live music, storytelling, dance and plenty of old Hollywood glamour and queer joy.
From the producers of Hot New Lez Party & Dyke Nite comes an intimate evening of sapphic seduction.
For The Love Of Drag is a FREE charity show produced by Phantom Haus Events ! This month we support Peter Packer.
2SLGBTQiA+ MAGAZINE
Featuring over 100 arts and culture events rooted in local history, grassroots activism, and 2SLGBTQiA+ community expression, the 23rd Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival runs from October 30 to November 7, 2026.
Celebrating 51 years, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is messy, camp, and unapologetically strange. A film that doesn’t just include queerness but thrives on it.
Ghost tours, haunted trolleys, and nights of fright - we’re gathering creepy events for you.
Massage therapy is not a nice extra bolted onto surgical recovery. Used at the right point, with the right practitioner, it changes how scars settle, how quickly swelling clears, and how long it takes before a person feels at home in their own skin again.
Two Spirit is an Indigenous term that reflects diverse roles and identities rooted in culture, land, and spirit. Its meaning continues to grow as part of both Indigenous resurgence and the 2SLGBTQiA+ community.
Fall is typically the time when local choirs and choruses invite community to join them on the risers. Here are a few queer-specific opportunities for you!
Language carries layers of history that may not be immediately visible. As we become more aware of these histories, revisiting the words we use can show respect for others’ experiences and backgrounds.
Writer-director Nick Butler sits down with cast member Kaden Connors to chat about shooting in remote Cache Creek, the magic of small-town locations, and the vital role of intimacy coordination on set.
ARTIVISM is celebrating its 10th anniversary from September 14 to October 16, and this year’s lineup offers plenty to explore across campus and around Vancouver.
A Guide to Choosing Respectful Halloween Costumes for you and your family
The Autistic Queer & Trans Peer Group, hosted by Canucks Autism Network, provides a regular, supportive space dedicated specifically to Autistic queer, trans, and questioning adults. No official diagnosis required.
WOQ SUPPORTERS
Major expenses are easier to manage when couples decide what they can realistically afford before committing to a purchase, celebration, or life change. A dedicated savings target, clear spending limit, and backup plan can prevent one expensive milestone from disrupting everyday bills or longer-term goals.
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival returns for its 38th edition in September 2026 with a theme that places participation, belonging, and shared cultural space at the centre of its programme.
Show up at The Junction on Davie Street on a Tuesday and you'll find "Bingo for Life" in full swing by 7pm: six games for $15, hosted by Peach Cobblah, proceeds going straight to the Friends for Life Society.
With Dreamina’s Seedance 2.5 model, subtle motion like a flickering candle, drifting petals, or typography easing gently into frame transforms a flat announcement into a memorable preview that gets guests excited well before the actual date.
Intimacy products are often sold with a script already attached: who they are for, what a body should look like, and what a satisfying experience is supposed to mean. Queer people have always found ways around scripts like that.
Over the past decade, online slots have evolved far beyond classic fruit machines and ancient Egyptian pyramids. As pop culture becomes more diverse, major slot providers are building games around high-fashion glamour, stage divas, drag queen culture, and vibrant Pride festivals.
Canadian sport has many public faces: packed hockey arenas, Olympic podiums, soccer crowds, community pools, winter rinks and local fields that shape children long before a national anthem plays.