The List - Ottawa's Queerest Calendar
Find queer events, sports and recreation activities, and social happenings across the region all under one tab.
MAX will occasionally scour social media and event forums to post but our hope is that you, the community, will add things we might have missed.
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A beginner's poetry workshop featuring pieces from some of the best contemporary queer poets
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Market & Fun-day full of queerness, vendors, and fun activities!
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Drag Me To Live! is celebrating 3 years of incredible monthly drag events on August 6th!
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Part of the Pride Is Political Weekend Events collection
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Join us to kick off the Pride festivities and help us prepare for the festival!
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This show features images of queer domesticity through local artworks. Join us for a vern and open-mic poetry night. Bring your writings!
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6 events,MAX Ottawa is hosting its second annual Confidence is Key: Ballroom Workshop series. Sign up for one of the four free events!
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Join fellow queers on the court at Pride Capital Volleyball's free drop-in session
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Free clothing swap and gender-affirming haircuts for youth during Pride week
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The Pride Night Market is back for another year! Come support local queers, chill in the park, and enjoy the Pride season!
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3 events,MAX Ottawa is hosting its second annual Confidence is Key: Ballroom Workshop series. Sign up for one of the four free events!
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Come for the bacon, stay for the legs! Capital Tease is back with another titillating burlesque show to get you Pride-ready!
$20 – $25
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Come hang out with the community and enjoy a family-friendly picnic at the annual Capital Pride event!
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3 events,A week-long workshop series for 2SLGBTQ+ elders at the NAC
$105.75
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Bring out your leather and lace for an 19+, kink-positive erotic variety show on vernissage night. Masks encouraged.
Free
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In this month's programming for queer newcomers at MAX, we're making pride posters for the parade!
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A week-long workshop series for 2SLGBTQ+ elders at the NAC
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Take the first step towards financial confidence with Capital Pride's free financial literacy workshop
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5 events,A week-long workshop series for 2SLGBTQ+ elders at the NAC
$105.75
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The Ottawa Senior Pride Network and the Good Companions are hosting a Pride BBQ and afternoon of games!
$18
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Welcome to the 2025 Capital Pride Human Rights Panel! Join us for an engaging discussion on queer and trans safer space-making.
Free
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An advocacy panel on the history of blood donation and the queer community in Canada, organized by Capital Pride and pflag.
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Slut Ranch
live music x rave DJs x save a horse ride a cowboy! Get wrangled into something sweaty, glitchy, and gloriously unhinged.
$5 – $10
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Capital Pride Pageant After Party
A week-long workshop series for 2SLGBTQ+ elders at the NAC
$105.75
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Celebrate Pride with Kind Space at their fourth annual party! Get dressed up and come by for mocktails, socializing and karaoke
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for not-cis-man queers who wanna be social in a low stimulus space (soft music, low lighting, conversational chatter. think chill house party!)
$5 – $30
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Come join us for a fast-paced social event to meet other queer and trans folks, whether for dating or for making new friends!
Free – $20
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Get tickets for the Capital Pride Pageant where performers will compete for the titles of Mr., Mx., and Mrs., Capital Pride 2025.
$47.55 – $60.10
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Queen & Queer
T4T PJ PARTY – Big Dyke Weekend
A pride party for exclusively for trans, gender non-confirming, and nonbinary folks.
$15 – $30
Revolt of the Freaks: A Pride Spectacular
Come live your big top fantasy this Pride! We're bringing out the freaks for a jaw-dropping spectacular!
$15 – $45
PRIDE: A Deeper Love
2nd Annual Mens Night- Video Dance Party. 2 separate themed floors, Licensed Bar, Live DJ, Aerial Artist, VIP Lounge, Free Coat Check.
$33.40
Frigays Ottawa Pride
OTTAWA PRIDE - DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? We're back for a third year with another ICONIC Drag Race Winner & Toronto's hottest dance party!
$25.83
A week-long workshop series for 2SLGBTQ+ elders at the NAC
$105.75
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Join us as we paint the capital in every colour of the rainbow and celebrate the kings who are reclaiming their thrones
$15 – $20
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Lez Go: Bliss Pride Party
Ottawa Pride Bar Crawl Party
Don't miss the biggest Pride 2025 Party on Saturday, August 23rd @ the hottest bars and clubs in Ottawa!
$15
DYKE DINO PARTY – Big Dyke Weekend
dinosaur-themed dance party for not-cis-man queers. come dressed as a dino, a palaeontologist, a volcano, a rock… nothing matters! get weird!
$15 – $30
Pitbull Party
Bumpah 2 Bumpah
A QTBIPOC community party taking over the TD Main Stage during this year's Pride festival
Fierce Fusion
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MAX is hosting a pop-up mpox vaccine clinic during the Pride Street Festival.
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Brunch for dykes of colour before the Dyke March
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Celebrate Pride in the park with the OQSL! Softball teams will be playing in drag, DJ POWRHAUS will be spinning beats, and your support directly benefits Bruce House. The annual Street Festival is happening on Bank St. and features community organizations and partners!
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Calling all dykes! Gather and march this Pride with resistance and solidarity.
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Lez Go: Bliss Pride Party
Ottawa Pride Bar Crawl Party
DYKE DINO PARTY – Big Dyke Weekend
Pitbull Party
Bumpah 2 Bumpah
Fierce Fusion
The annual Street Festival is happening on Bank St. and features community organizations and partners!
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Celebrate Pride 2025 at the annual Parade starting at Elgin Street & Laurier Avenue, and ending at Kent Street and Albert Street.
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Join us for a chill afternoon of LGBTQ+ friendly crafting and creativity!
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Get ready to strike and spare your way to victory at our second Drag & Bowl event, where the competition is fierce and the fun never ends!
$25 – $30
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They get naked. They read. A different theme every month from Ottawa's trailblazing literary salon — since July 2017.
$24
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Ottawa's all-male-identified burlesque revue. Titillation and hilarity guaranteed. Since 2024.
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Now What?
A NOTE ON LANGUAGE: We recognize that language is ever-changing and imperfect. The language MAX uses is flexible and tailored to our audience which includes people with specific lived experiences and needs. We use a variety of terms and acronyms as convenient, though imperfect shorthand, including the word queer as an umbrella term for all who identify as members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Language and values change from person to person, and so you may find a range of terms being used in the community events.