Queer MTL things to do : July 2025

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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. 

🏳️‍🌈 The Québec Lesbian Archives presents Keeping our memories alive! Tracing lesbian history in Montréal, MEM—Centre des mémoires montréalaises all month long

🏳️‍🌈 SEX GARAGE: 35 years later, curated by Michael Hendricks and René LeBoeuf opens on July 16, 2025 and runs Wednesdays to Saturdays, Archives gaies du Québec and Parc de l’Espoir

Tuesday, July 1, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle : Ô Canada ! with Gisèle Lullaby, Kiara, LaDrag on-Fly, Misty Waterfalls and Bambi Dextrous, Cabaret Mado
🎥 Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7, Cinéma du Musée
🎥 David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Cinéma du Musée
🎥 Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love, Cinéma du Musée
🎥 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Cinéma Moderne

Wednesday, July 2, 2025
👑 Laura Cadieux: Le Drag Musical with Marla Deer, Clay Thorris, Velma Jones, Bobépine, Lana Dalida, Peggy Sue, Fabien L’Amour, Misty Waterfalls, Tracy Trash, Kelly Torrieli, Bambi Dextrous, Lady Guidoune, Popo Daraiche, Daisy Wood, Hugo Le Magnifique and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
🏳️‍🌈 RÉZO presents the official launch of Zone Rose, Village
🎥 Miloš Forman's Amadeus, Cinéma Moderne
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz
🎶 Twin Peaks Show with Jean-Philippe Audin, Ghislain Leclant and the One Eyed Jacks Band, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
 
Thursday, July 3, 2025
🎥 Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz, Cinema du Parc
🎥 Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love, Cinéma du Musée
🎥 David Lynch's Inland Empire, Cinéma Moderne
👠 Black Gxrl Sessions for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh
👑 Girls’ Night Out : Hoeee Canada! with Krystella Fame, Bobépine and Crystal Starz, Cabaret Mado
👑 One Butterfly Show with Miss Butterfly, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Friday, July 4, 2025
👠 Black Girl Sesh, MTL KBA and Village Pour Toustes presents a Get In!: Mini Kiki Lounge, Place du Village
👑 Drag Show: America Protest Fundraiser with GoblinHarlequin, Pater Pansexual, Ofeelia Blush, Spiked Corona, Charlot Bean and Malibu Hadid, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
🥳 Sweet Like Honey MTL hosts Soirée Caribéenne with Nalee, Po and Adia, Village au ied-du-Courant
🎭 Prince Vs. Bowie Burlesque with BiG SiSSY, Sugar Vixen, Holly Von Sin, The Foxy Lexxi Brown and Frenchy Jones, The Wiggle Room
🤣 BULGE and Tales of Gender Affirmation present The Friendly Show: Speed Friending and Comedy Show, Théatre Sainte Catherine Café-Bar
🥳 DOMESCILE x HOMEGROWN with Matrixxman, Quan and Dileta, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🎥 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Cinéma Moderne
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Lady Boom Boom, Velma Jones and LaDrag On-Fly, Cabaret Mado
 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Saturday, July 5, 2025
 Supernature presents Waacking Competition, Place du Village
🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra
🥳 CLUB SAT x GROOVY CASTLE x LE ROTARY CLUB with JP Groove, ROH and Lia Plutonic, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🥳 SUPER TASTE MTL and Homopop present BRITNEY ... One More Time—A Britney Summer Dance Party, Cabaret Berlin
🥳 Exphoria 3.0 rave, Esc
👑 Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Robin des Bois
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Shania Twain + Céline Dion, Cabaret Mado
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Lady Boom Boom, Velma Jones and LaDrag On-Fly, Cabaret Mado
👑 Late Night with Sasha Baga, Bobépine and Walter Ego, Cabaret Mado
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, July 6, 2025
🎨 Queer Bodies presents a live drawing class, Place du Village
🎥 Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham's No Other Land, Cinéma Moderne
📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Daniel Allen Cox’s I Felt the End Before it Came, Espace des Possibles dans La Petite-Patrie 
🎥 Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Cinéma Moderne
🎭 Tales From the Crypt: Halloween in July with Tristan Ginger, Bijoux, Eldritch Mór, Moonshine and Honeysuckle Pussywillow, The Wiggle Room
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Jessie Précieuse and Bobépine, Cabaret Mado
👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle : Vampires à la plage with Gisèle Lullaby, Kiara, Petula Claque, Aizysse Baga and Velma Jones, Cabaret Mado
🎶 Pixies with Kurt Vile, MTELUS
 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
🎥 Cinéma Public presents Jeremy Workman's Secret Mall Apartment with Divine, LIVART
👑 Oh la la! with Manny, Tracy Trash, Plastik Patrick, Ruby Doll, CC Chanel and Miami Minx, Cabaret Mado
👑 L'après bal MX Cocktail 2025 with Crystal Starz, Alexandra Moss, Lady Magpie and Diva on a Dime, Bar Le Cocktail 
🎶 Pixies with Kurt Vile, MTELUS
 
Thursday, July 10, 2025
🎥 Cinéma Public presents John Waters' Polyester with Divine, dubbed in Québécois French and subtitled in English, LIVART
🎥 Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Cinéma Moderne
👠 Black Gxrl Sessions for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh
👑 Happy Birthday Krystella Fame: 10 years of drag with Krystella Fame, Tracy Trash and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado
 
Friday, July 11, 2025
👠 Ballroom4Community and Village Pour Toustes presents the Bloc Kiki Party, Place du Village
🏳️‍🌈 BLUF Montréal leather men monthly gathering, Bar Le Stud 
🥳 DOMESICLE x T.I.T.S. with Clara D and Cori, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🎥 Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love, Cinéma Moderne
🥳 Cerise Noire goth night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 
🥳 Dance with 3 DJs with Mightykat, Soundshaper and Patch Safari, Robin des Bois
🎭 ABBA Burlesque with Sucre à la Crème, Yaya Havana, Moonshine Sunshine, Quinzy Chase and Frenchy Jones, The Wiggle Room
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Adriana The Bombshell, Marla Deer and Bambi Dextrous, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, July 12, 2025
👠 PIMAN and the House of Siriano present the Spicy Kiki Ball, Bain Mathieu
🏳️‍🌈 Atelier méchanique, L'asterisk and Sweet Like Honey MTL present the Sapphic Car Wash, a fundraiser for Palestine relief and Wild Pride Festival, Atelier méchanique Bâtiment 7
🎤 C’est Ma Toune, Place du Village
🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra
🏳️‍🌈 The Annual BBQ of the Phoenix Leather Rubber Club of Montréal, Parc des Faubourgs
🥳 CLUB SAT x MICRORAVE with Tom Marsi, Lou Celsius, Pretty Privilege and Lather Rinse Repeat, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
👑 Eyes of Horus presents Minecraft: The Drag Show with Kleopatra Perfection, Amnesia, Sandra D'Licious, Daisy Dratée, Colleen De Bine, Pomp LeMousse, Dullahanne and Casanova, Bar Le Cocktail
🎥 Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love, Cinéma Moderne
🎥 Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, Cinéma du Musée
🎭 Cult of AnarchKey presents Rock N Royal with Korra AnarchKey, SALT, Maya Iconique, Angel's Spit, Jodie Jodie Roger and Scarlet Wives, Trash Can
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Britney Spears, Cabaret Mado
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Adriana The Bombshell, Marla Deer and Bambi Dextrous, Cabaret Mado
👑 Late Night with Pétula Claque, Aizysse Baga and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Sunday, July 13, 2025
🏳️‍🌈 Voulez-Vous Productions presents a Médiation Culturelle and Course, Place du Village
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Beyoncé, Cabaret Mado
👑 Afternoon Drag Cafe with Itsh, Brique par brique
🎥 Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love, Cinéma Moderne
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Kiara, Marla Deer and Gina Gates, Cabaret Mado
👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Monday, July 14, 2025
🎥 Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, Cinéma du Musée
 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle : Vive la France! with Gisèle Lullaby, Ruby Doll, Peggy Sue, Esirena and Lady Magpie, Cabaret Mado
 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
‍🏳️‍🌈 SEX GARAGE: 35 years later, curated by Michael Hendricks and René LeBoeuf vernissage, Archives gaies du Québec and Parc de l'Espoir
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz
👑 Le Filip: Reine(s) de France, Cabaret Mado
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles

 Thursday, July 17, 2025
👑 Mado : bitche la France with Mado Lamotte and Squeegee Nicky, Cabaret Mado
👑 Dalulu: 1st Anniversary, Theme Pokemon with Sally D, Woody Fungi, Val the Freak and Prudence, Cabaret Mado
👑 Le Sami Party with Sami Landri, Cabaret Mado

🎭 BOYLESQUEmmmTL: Big D*ck Edition with Swordverine, Jay Show, Cherry Topp, Baron Von Styck, Dom and Casquivano, The Wiggle Room
👠 Black Gxrl Sessions for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh

Friday, July 18, 2025
👠 Bring It! and Village Pour Toustes presents a Mini Kiki Ball, Place du Village 
🏳️‍🌈 Gay and Grey Montréal hosts the Queer Anglo Pride Picnic 2025, New Hope Senior Centre
🥳 DOMESICLE x Nuits d'Afrique with Aunty Rayzor and Maya Kamaty, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Sasha Baga and Emma DéjàVu, 
Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Saturday, July 19, 2025
👯 Supernature presents Waacking Course, Place du Village
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Sasha Baga and Emma DéjàVu, Cabaret Mado
👑 Late Night with Jessie Précieuse, Tracy Trash and Foxy Lexxi Brown, Cabaret Mado
👑 So EmmÖtional with EmmÖtional Damage, Casanova, Lulu Shade and Corosoly, Bar Le Cocktail
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Sunday, July 20, 2025
🥳 BLUSH presents Sunday Disco, Place du Village
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Sasha Baga and Lady Magpie, Cabaret Mado
👑 Les succès oubliés with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail 

Tuesday, July 22, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle : Perdues dans l’espace with Gisèle Lullaby, Saltina Shaker, Sunshine Glitterchild, Lady Boom Boom and Sasha Baga, Cabaret Mado
 
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz
👑 Armado with Petula Claque and members of the Armada Montréal rugby team, Cabaret Mado
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
 
Thursday, July 24, 2025
🎥 Queer Cinema Club Montréal presents Sally Potter’s Orlando, Cinema Moderne
📚 The Violet Hour presents a book launch for The Blue House by Sky Gilbert, Stock Bar
👑 Bingo Coquin with Rainbow, Cabaret Mado
👠 Black Gxrl Sessions for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh
 
Friday, July 25, 2025
🎥 Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Cinema du Parc
🥳 DOMESICLE with Jump Source, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🥳 Village Pour Toustes presents Festival Ctrl+Alt, Place du Village
🥳 SUPER TASTE MTL present Starships: 2010's Dance Party Vol. 3, Cabaret Berlin
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Celes, Carmen Sutra and Erica, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, July 26, 2025
🥳 Village Pour Toustes presents Festival Ctrl+Alt, Place du Village

🥳 ALL NIGHT with Juan Atkins, Martyn Bootyspoon, Bianca Badita and Donotstealmyname, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
🎭 Cult of AnarchKey presents QUEERCORE: Nu Metal with Korra AnarchKey, Tristan Nestea, Yikes Macaroni, Poppet The Banshee, Asmatix and Cyril Cinder, Complexe Sky
🎥 Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Cinema du Parc
👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Céline Dion, Cabaret Mado
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Celes, Carmen Sutra and Erica, Cabaret Mado
👑 Late Night with Jessie Précieuse, Crystal Starz and Lady Boom Boom, Cabaret Mado
👑 Charlie’s Angels : Full Throttle with EmmÖtional Damage, Pomp, Mimi Fatale, Lulu Shade and Esirena, Bar Le Cocktail 
👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail
 
Sunday, July 27, 2025
🥳 Village Pour Toustes presents Festival Ctrl+Alt, Place du Village
🏳️‍🌈 AIDS Community Care Montréal (ACCM) hosts the ACCM Community BBQ, Parc La Fontaine
🎥 Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Cinema du Parc
👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Lady Boom Boom and Lulu Shade, Cabaret Mado
👑 Happy Birthday Crystal Starz with Crystal Starz, Bar Le Cocktail 

 
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
📚 The Violet Hour presents Love and Sex as Resistance: Writing Queer Romance and Erotica with Afrooz Zaad, Gabriel Cholette, Leila Marshy and Jane Walsh, Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe
🏳️‍⚧️ AIDS Community Care Montréal (ACCM) presents a Trans Realities Workshop, West Island LGBTQ2+ Centre
👑 Full Gisèle : Bonne fête Gisèle! with Gisèle Lullaby, Victoire de Rockwell, Marla Deer, 👑 Tracy Trash and Kelly Torreli, Cabaret Mado 

Wednesday, July 30, 2025
🎥 Cinéma Public presents John Waters' Polyester with Divine, dubbed in Québécois French and subtitled in English, LIVART
🎶 Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour with Rebecca Black, Bell Centre
👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz
🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles
 
Thursday, July 31, 2025
🎭 Lady Gaga Burlesque with Izzy Stardust, Foxy Lexxi Brown, Yikes Macaroni, Petro, Yaya Havana and Sugar Vixen, The Wiggle Room
🏳️‍🌈 Interligne presents Dialogues à travers le temps : partage intergénérationnel LGBTQ+, Espace ONF
🏳️‍🌈 AIDS Community Care Montréal (ACCM) presents Two Lines, one Story: Tracing HIV Through ACCM's Archive, Espace ONF
🏳️‍🌈 Fugues and Fierté Montréal Festival present Pride Has Its Flags, Esplanade Tranquille
📚 Philippe-Aubert Côté hosts a Literary Workshop as part of Literary Pride, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal
🏳️‍🌈 Fugues, Fierté Montréal and the Indigiqueer Cirlce of Québec present Lumière des Nations with Bobby Sanchez, Camille Larivée, Gilbert Niquay, Léuli Eshr?ghi, Marie-Celine Einish, Soleil Launière and Shub, with Elder Sedalia Fazio and Carling Sioui, Esplanade Tranquille
🎶 XoXo concert with BiG SiSSY, NIIVI and Nath, Jardins Gamelin
👑 Drag! In Three Acts with Michel Dorion, ASMATIX, Casanova, Chouchoune, Ciatha Night, Crystal Starz, Démone Lastrange, Diva on a Dime, Emma Déjàvu, Érica, Esirena, Génesis Loren, Jean-Marc Reid, Lulu Shade, Miss Butterfly, Miss Mira Belle, Moh Dafok, Rawbin, Sally-D, Sarah Winters and Sir Vergon, Scène Dovato

👑 Terrasse Monville will light up with Drag on the Monville Terrace, a dazzling summer soirée
🎭 Lesbian Wilderness Retreat from Hell with Alyssa Angelucci-Wall, Veronica Baron, Anton May, Elly Pond, Joan Edouard Williams, Emma Elizabeth, Chrystal Zhang and Hannah Morrow, Cabaret Lion d’Or
📚 Literary Pride hosts Queer Académie: The Finals with Barbada, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal
🎶 Transcendance presents Jasmine Infiniti, Esplanade Tranquille
🎶 Supernature and Fierté Montréal present Supernature Vol. 2 with Archie Burnett, Mariana Benenge, BlackGold, Flame, Moodz, Paolo Askia, San Farina and The Butcher, Club Soda
🏳️‍🌈 Cri de ralliement hosts the vernissage of In the blur of pleasure: A photo exhibit on consent in the context of PnP/chemsex, QG du Festival Fierté Montréal
👠 Black Gxrl Sessions for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh
👑 RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 runner-up Jewels Sparkles, Cabaret Mado

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.

🧗‍♀️ Queer Bloc’s monthly bouldering events bring together MTL’s queer climbing community with live DJs, after-drinks and even a tattoo artist on-site. Follow their Instagram for all of the details.