Queer MTL things to do: May 2025
May has arrived, and LGBTQ+ fun is blossoming all over town! Like every month, Montréal is stuffed to the brim with events, parties and unique experiences painted in all the colours of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. From drag to community, circuit to underground, here’s some of our picks for the best LGBTQ+ things to do in the city. For further announcements, including those not announced at time of publication, follow QueerMTL on Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr! Got an event coming up? DM it our way!
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🎥 Cinema
👑 Drag
🥳 Parties
🎶 Concert
✊ Activism
🏳️⚧️ Trans
🏳️🌈 Community
😆 Comedy
🎭 Performance
💪 Sports
👯♀️ Dance
🎤 Karaoke
🎨 Arts
📚 Literary / Educational
👠 Ballroom / Vogue
Find tickets for drag shows at Cabaret Mado and Bar Le Cocktail at their websites.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
👑 Happy Birthday, Cabaret Mado! with Mado Lamotte, Cabaret Mado
👠 Black Gxrl Sesh ballroom collective for Black Trans Queer People and Black Femmes presents Sex Siren: A Workshop with Marlyne 007, Studio ED
🎭 Madonna Burlesque Tribute with Yaya Havana, Tristan Ginger, Butterscotch Blondie, Petro and Sucre à la Crème, The Wiggle Room
👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025, Bar Le Cocktail
🎥 David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, Cinema du Parc
🥳Substrat, Sound Series with IRL, Bénédicte, Michael Gary Dean and Freddy Speer,Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
Friday, May 2, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Tracy Trash, Lady Boom Boom, Krystella Fame and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
😂 FemmeNOMNOM cuisine and comedy night with Abby Stonehouse, Mariam Khan, Raajiee Chelliah, Dawn McSweeney and Tina Cruz, Molotov Cocktail
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Urban Element Zone
🎭 Extravaganza! with The Lady Josephine, Enshantay, Lily Monroe and Miami Minx, The Wiggle Room
🎥 The Film Society of Montréal presents Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry, Cinema du Parc
🥳 Solid Pink Disco with DJ Trixie Mattel, Rebecca Black, DJ Mateo Segade and DJ Philippe, MTELUS
Saturday, May 3, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Tracy Trash, Lady Boom Boom, Krystella Fame and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Beyoncé with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado
🎭 Pussy Pop presents Cuntry Cabaret, Aux Angles Ronds
🏳️🌈 Festival Jouissif Montréal queer, kink and leather fest, Bain Mathieu
🥳 PANTS OFF Mtl pants-free party with Plastik Patrik, Cabaret Berlin
🥳 Hilary Jane with DJ Lady McCoy, Complexe Sky
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz and Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
🎤Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra
🎭 Cult of AnarchKey presents TRANSMUTATION—Live Music, Drag & Burlesque with Korra AnarchKey, Sir Vergon, Yikes Macaroni, Just Hxrny, STAB, Anna Pest and Pyrocene Death Cult, Complex Sky
Sunday, May 4, 2025
🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado
🏳️🌈 Festival Jouissif Montréal queer, kink and leather fest, Bain Mathieu
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Peggy Sue and Crystal Starz, Cabaret Mado
👑 Les succès oubliés with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
🎥 Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, Cinema Public
Monday, May 5, 2025
👑 Rawxy & Cie with Lady Magpie, Lady Boom Boom and Lulu Shade, Cabaret Mado
🏳️🌈 Embodying Desire intimacy workshop, see event for info
🎥 Panorama-cinéma’s Queers en cavale, a travelling film club showing films exploring the joyful relationship between queerness and criminality present Gregg Araki’s Nowhere, Cinema Public
🎥 Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, Cinema Public
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
👑 Sasha Baga presents DIVAAAS: 100% Pure Pop with Peggy Sue and Adriana, Cabaret Mado
🎭The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
Thursday, May 8, 2025
👑 Slay5ians with Manny, Ad’Horrible, Bijurjya, CC Chanel, Emmötional Damage, Jebbie, Joy Rider, Kajol, Khann, Komodo, Korranarchkey, KrissCheness, Li Xi Mulan, Lia Jasmine, Miss Elle, Novah, Psyberia, Rameez Karim, Song & Suri Racha and Ken Antonio, Cabaret Mado
👑 L’effet Butterfly with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail
Friday, May 9, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Petula Claque, Kiara, Bambi Dextrous and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Urban Element Zone
🎶 DARUDE with The Holy, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🥳Cerise Noire goth night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
🏳️🌈BLUFMontréal leather men monthly gathering, Bar Le Stud
Saturday, May 10, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Petula Claque, Kiara, Bambi Dextrous and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Lady Gaga with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado
🥳 Lez Dance with DJ Gwine Stefani, Stock & Soda
🥳 Queen & Queer Dance Party—Nuit Afro 3 with KidCrayola, BlackGold, Ms. Baby and Gurafiku, La Sala Rossa
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz and Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
🎶 BLAWAN, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
📚The Violet Hour Book Club reads Greg Marshall’s Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It, Espace des Possibles dans La Petite-Patrie
👑Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Robin des Bois
Sunday, May 11, 2025
🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado
👑 Afternoon Drag Café Fundraiser for Palestine with Envy the Clown, Delam in Drag, Elissa Kadik and Heart Dandy, Brique Par Brique
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Petula Claque, and Kiara, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vive la France with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
🎥 Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, Cinema Public
Monday, May 12, 2025
🎭 Full Plumé with Lady Guidoune and Charli Morin, Cabaret Mado
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado
🎨 Aussenwelt hosts Figure Drawing, Union Française de Montréal
🎥 Sean Baker’s Anora, Cinema Moderne
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
Thursday, May 15, 2025
👑 Happy Birthday Aizysse with Aizysse Baga, Sasha Baga and Lady Boom Boom, Cabaret Mado
👑 L’effet Butterfly with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail
Friday, May 16, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Carmen Sutra, Kitana, Aizysse Baga and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Urban Element Zone
🎥 David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Cinema Moderne
Saturday, May 17, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Carmen Sutra, Kitana, Aizysse Baga and Nana, Cabaret Mado
🏳️🌈 Eurofest Eurovision viewing party with drag performance, Robin des Bois
🎭 Latino Burlesque Canada presents Muy Sabrosa: A flavourful celebration! with Anaconda LaSabrosa and more, Bar Le Cocktail
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz and Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra
🥳 Les nocturnes du MAC, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
Sunday, May 18, 2025
🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado
🥳 Dad Bod—Tea Dance with Dr Love and Laura Ingalls, Robin des Bois
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Lady Boom Boom and Esirena, Cabaret Mado
🎥 David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Cinema Moderne
Monday, May 19, 2025
👑 Tribute to Katy Perry with Lulu Shade, Esirena, Lady Boom Boom, Diva on a Dime and Natachatte, Cabaret Mado
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado
🎶 Shakira Las mujeres ya no lloran—World Tour, Bell Centre
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
👑 Sam Star, Cabaret Mado
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
Thursday, May 22, 2025
👑 Le Sami Party with Sami Landri, Cabaret Mado
👑 L’effet Butterfly with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail
🎥 Queer Cinema Club, Image+Nation and Mubi Canada present Frank Perry’s Mommie Dearest, Cinema Moderne
Friday, May 23, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Uma Gahd, Peggy Sue, Celes and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Eye of Horus presents Renai-Sauce with Kleopatra Perfection, Dupré Latour, Asmatix, Dolores Diamonds, Safierce Diamonds, Skyler Rey, Alexandra Moss, Father Broadway Mulan, Colleen De Bine, Sasha Die-Men, Sevv, Rosy Bloom, Pomp LeMousse, Muz’Emma, Alastair S!N and Genesis Loren, Café Cléopatra
👑 Vendredi Fou sans pantalon with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Urban Element Zone
🥳 ALL NIGHT with Funk Assault (Chlär & Alarico) and Bashkka, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
Saturday, May 24, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Uma Gahd, Peggy Sue, Celes and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👠 Godmother Britney Unbothered Cartier and Father Rony Unbothered Cartier present The Divas Ball with DJ GMako 007 and MC Father Broadway Mulan, Toscadura
🥳 Le Jour des Goths, Cabaret Berlin
🏳️🌈 Queer Community Clothing Swap, La Fontaine Park
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz and Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
👑 Disney Villains with Wooy Fungi and Victoire de Rockwell, Bar Le Cocktail
🎶 KLANGKARUSSELL, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Taylor Swift, Le Studio TD
Sunday, May 25, 2025
🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Sasha Baga and Clay Thorris, Cabaret Mado
👑 Happy Birthday Emma Déjàvu, Bar Le Cocktail
Monday, May 26, 2025
👑 Girls’ Night Out with Krystella Fame, Cabaret Mado
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
🎨 Aussenwelt hosts Figure Drawing, Union Française de Montréal
👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
👑 C’t’à ton tour Bobépine with Bobépine, Marla Deer, Gisèle Lullaby, Tracy Trash, Jessie Précieuse, Johnny Jones, Clay Thorris, Lady Guidoune and Bambi Dextrous, Cabaret Mado
👠 Ballroom Sessions, Espace sans Luxe
🎭The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
Thursday, May 29, 2025
👑 Kylie Drag Show with Jessie Précieuse, Lady Boom Boom and Crystal Starz, Cabaret Mado
🎭 Sabrina Carpenter Burlesque with Lily Monroe, Clara Develours, Rose de Flore, Bijoux, Leia Vontress, Miss Behave and Satin Simone, The Wiggle Room
👑 L’effet Butterfly with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail
🥳QUARTZ Soirées Lesbiennes—Secret Room Edition, Bar Confessional
Friday, May 30, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Marla Deer, Velma Jones and Nana, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Urban Element Zone
🎶 Hologramme EP Surfaces Release Show, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Lady Gaga, Le Studio TD
🥳Homopop and SUPER TASTE MTL present BABES! Girl Pop Dance Party, Cabaret Berlin
Saturday, May 31, 2025
👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Marla Deer, Velma Jones and Nana, Cabaret Mado
🎭 Old Hollywood! Double Feature with Miami Minx, The Main Attraction, Maria TopCatt, Zyra Lee Vanity and Frenchy Jones, The Wiggle Room
🥳 Daring Tribe presents RED leather night with Ian Jackman and Yerko, Le Red Room
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz and Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
👑 Érica et ses divas vol. 2 with Crystal Starz and Lady Zaza, Bar Le Cocktail
🏳️🌈 Soirée d’explorations intimes ~ s3x Positive ~ en mixité choisie FLINTA, À Corps Consentants (ÀCC)
OTHERS
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Project 10 hosts regularly scheduled drop-in events and workshops for queer youth. Follow them on Instagram for all the latest details.
🎨Queer Bodies MTL / Tiohtiakë hosts monthly live model drawing sessions. Find schedule, model and location info on their Instagram.
👠 Montréal’s ballroom goings on can also be found at the Montréal Kiki Ballroom Alliance (Mtl-KBA) and Ballroom4Community pages on Facebook and Instagram.
👠 Black Gxrl Sesh ballroom collective for Black Trans Queer People and Black Femmes hosts weekly events and open studios. Check their instagram for details and times.
💅 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.
🎤Queer Karaoke MTL hosts regular karaoke events. Follow their Instagram for dates and location.
🛼Montréal Roller Derby hosts regular matches and open boot camps throughout the year. Follow their Facebook page for additional info.
⚽️ The Juke Lesbo-Queer and Trans inclusive soccer league collective offers weekly pick-up games.
⚾️ The Balle Molle Queer Softball league holds regular games and events.
🤠Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud.
👯Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact tango.queer@hotmail.com or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts.
🏐Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play.
🕹Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!
🏃🏾 Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!
🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders' regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.
