MAX Ottawa

Gay Men In Recovery
2025-07-17 19:00 - 20:10, 2025-07-24 19:00 - 20:10 (America/Toronto) | MAX Ottawa, 400 Cooper St. Suite 9004, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2H8, Canada
A weekly hybrid narcotics anonymous group for gay men.

To access the Zoom link, click the link below, select Thursday, and scroll down to “Gay Men In Recovery.” To enter the building, ring the intercom doorbell on the left side of the main doors if they are locked and a member will let you in.

Meeting formats and accessibility:

This meeting is closed to non-addicts. You should attend only if you believe that you may have a problem with substance abuse.

This meeting invites participation by all attendees.

This meeting is focused on the needs of gay, lesbian and transgender members of NA.

This meeting is meant to be attended by men only.

This meeting is wheelchair accessible.

Meetings virtually and in person.

Karaoke Night
2025-07-17 20:00 - 23:00, 2025-07-20 20:00 - 23:00, 2025-07-24 20:00 - 23:00 | T’s, 323 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON, 2P 0J8, Canada
Karaoke with fellow Queers hosted by Jolene.

Frontrunners - Women's Run
2025-07-18 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-07-25 17:00 - 19:00 | ON
A running and walking club for 2SLGBTQ+ community and friends in the National Capital Region, meeting Tuesday nights, Friday nights, and Saturday mornings (09:00 (spring, summer, fall); 09:30 (winter; from the first Saturday of December to the last Saturday of March)) at 111 Lisgar Street, the rear entrance of City Hall.

Runs are held:

Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, after which we go for coffee (Routes)

Saturdays at 9:00 am (9:30 am from the first Saturday of December to the last Saturday of March inclusive), followed by breakfast (Routes)

Women’s 5km run

Fridays at 5:00 pm

This event is open to all who identify as women, female-identifying, non-binary, and Two-Spirit individuals

For more details, please email wmns@ottawafrontrunners.org

NOTICE: 2025 Gatineau runs — Saturdays, 10 May, 14 June, 12 July, 9 August, 13 September, and 11 October.

Cancellation of runs are rare, only owing to holidays and hazardous weather. When runs are cancelled, we post a notice on the site linked below and send an e-mail to members.

Ottawa Trans Library Youth Group
2025-07-18 18:00 - 20:00 | ON
Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ youth! Are you between the ages of 14-19 and interested in connecting with other Queer youth in your community? Drop into OTL’s Youth Group on April 18th between 6pm-8pm to make some new friends and learn more about our community. Meetings are casual and drop in, so you can stay for as long or as little as you would like. Expect a mix of discussion, low stakes activities, and free time to chat and connect. We will be meeting on the third Friday of each month, so if you can’t make this one we hope to see you in the future!

Art Hive
2025-07-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Diversity Cornwall, 167 Pitt St., Cornwall, Ontario, K6J 3P5, Canada
Join us for a special Pride Week edition of Art Hive as part of Diversity Cornwall’s 10th Anniversary Pride Celebration! This is your chance to get crafty and contribute to the festive spirit!

We’ll be making signs for the festival, bracelets, buttons, and more! It’s a wonderful opportunity to tap into your inner artist, explore new mediums, and connect with community in a queer-affirming space.The session is facilitated by Student Therapist Lara (they/them), training in Art & Expressive Arts Therapy at WHEAT Institute.

📍 Where: 167 Pitt St, Cornwall, ON⏰ When: Friday, July 18th | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

No registration required! All abilities welcome. All materials will be provided. Just bring your creative energy!

Queers & Beers
2025-07-18 18:00 - 23:30 | Lowertown Brewery, 73 York St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5T2, Canada
🌈 QUEERS & BEERS is back at Lowertown Brewery in the Byward Market! 🍻 Join us Friday, July 18 for an indoor/outdoor hangout (weather depending) with great brews, cool queers, and chill vibes.

✨ All genders & sexualities welcome👯 Come solo, with friends, or leave with new ones🗣️ Chat, chill, flirt—or just vibe♿️ Accessible space + patio

📍 Lowertown Brewery – 73 York St, Ottawa⏰ Friday, July 18💌 queering613@gmail.com

Let’s raise a glass on unceded Algonquin Territory and keep building community 💖

Come Through: Black Queer Drop Ins
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | The Grove, 18 Louisa St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1R6Y6, Canada
Project Agape has teamed up with The Grove to create a monthly gathering space for Black queer folks. These sessions are designed to offer a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment where we can unwind, connect, and simply be ourselves.Join us every month for an evening of relaxation, fun, and community! 🍊

Our first event is kicking off in July with a Community Chill Session. Whether you’re in the mood for a friendly board game, vibing to music, or getting creative with coloring or beading, there’s something for everyone. We’ll also be providing delicious patties from Run 2 Patty to enjoy while we hang out.

We’re thrilled to host this event in a cozy, colorful, and welcoming space, perfect for dancing, lounging, and mingling. The Grove has designed the space with diverse seating options, including sofas, floor pillows, and chairs, so you can feel comfortable however you choose to relax. It will also be a mask-friendly space and emphasize on Black joy, comfort, and community. 🌈

A special thank you to @thegrove613 for sponsoring this event by providing us with a welcoming space where we can gather, connect, and feel supported. We truly appreciate your support in making this initiative possible!

Registration is required through the link below!

Dragalicious
2025-07-18 21:00 - 2025-07-19 02:00 | AIDS Committee of Ottawa, 19 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S1A9, Canada
🌟✨ DRAGALICIOUS is coming to Ottawa! ✨🌟Hosted by the AIDS Committee of Ottawa, this is your official invite to a night of fierce fun, fabulous fashion, and unforgettable vibes!

👑 Kings, Queens & Everyone In-Between—this night is for YOU!

🎉 Event Details:📅 Friday, July 18, 2025🕘 9:00 PM – 2:00 AM📍 19 Main Street, Ottawa🎧 Music by DJ V1nny

💃 Drag dress code encouraged but not compulsory. Come dressed to impress!🍿 Free snacks & drinks🎁 Door prizes🚗 Free parking

📩 For more info, contact: joshua@aco-cso.ca📲 Register now via the QR code on the poster

Let’s celebrate community, creativity, and queerness in all its glory. See you on the dance floor! 💅🏽🌈

Frontrunners
2025-07-19 09:00 - 11:30, 2025-07-22 18:30 - 20:00 | ON

West Side Pride Festival
2025-07-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Alexander Grove Park, 10 Warner-Colpitts Ln, Stittsville, Ontario, K2S 1V7, Canada
West Side Pride Festival is an accessible outdoor annual event. We host a large Community Fair, a Children’s’ Area, amazing food from the Queens View Cafe and stage show featuring BJ Stroker, Caleb O’Guy, the No Border Drummers, Skylar Sapphire and Holli Cow. Free parking and access to indoor toilets and air-conditioning.

Bottomless Dine & Drag Dinner
2025-07-19 19:00 - 22:00 | The Vanitea Room, 551 Somerset St West, Ottawa, ON, K1R 5J9, Canada
Every week, on Saturday night, Vanitea is the destination for the no. 1 voted drag dinner, presented by beloved house host Devona Coe and a rotating calendar of featured local and visiting drag queens.Delivering their struts, gag-worthy performances & all-over sass for your Saturday night pleasure, + a fabulous 3 course tower (with meal included) and bottomless drinks!

Leather & Fetish Night
2025-07-19 20:00 - 2025-07-20 02:00 | T’s, 323 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON, 2P 0J8, Canada
Leather Meets Fetish Gear – July 19th at T’s

BLUF Ottawa is teaming up with Fetish Gear Night for one hell of a night at T’s All Welcoming Pub — and you’re invited.

Visit Stroked Ego for some gitch and some wears! Located at 131 Bank Street – 2nd Floor.

BLUF Leather Social 8 PM – 10 PMYour chance to suit up, connect, and hang out with fellow leathermen in a chill, social vibe.

Fetish Gear Night 9 PM – 2 AMOnce 9 hits, it’s full throttle—rubber, leather, neoprene, pup gear, uniforms—if you wear it, bring it. The floor is open, the beats are deep, and the crowd is kink-friendly and fierce.

This night is extra special as we raise a glass (or two) to the Ottawa Knights celebrating 50 years of brotherhood and legacy. Members and friends of the Knights will be in the house!

19+ | No cover ever

Gear up. Show up. Be seen.

Boots N' Bling: Queer Country Rave
2025-07-19 21:00 - 2025-07-20 02:00 | LIVE! on Elgin, 220 Elgin St #2, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1L7, Canada
Where rhinestones meet rhythm. Where hoedown meets ho-up.Because country was always queer — and now it’s loud about it.

A two-steppin’, glitter-drenched takeover of your favorite venue — complete with: indoor honky-tonk-style rave hall (club lights, thumpin’ bass)Parking: Street & paid lot options nearbyClosest Transit: [Albert & Slater]

THE SOUND:Country, but make it club.Think barn dance on molly. Think gay rodeo meets Pride parade.Soundtrack by our genre-blending, floor-filling DJs spinning:● Deep cuts & boot-stompers from Orville Peck, Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter● Shania Twain, Lil Nas X, Dolly Parton (remixed, reworked, revered)● House, disco, and country-trap crossover edits● Surprise y’allternative throwbacks & queer line dance anthems● Midnight “Hoe-Down Hour” — a curated set of gay country bangers to lose your spurs to

Expect everything from “9 to 5” on acid to “Old Town Road” like you’ve never heard it before.

THE VIBE:Not your granddaddy’s country bar.We’re flipping the script, queering the narrative, and glittering up every boot and buckle.From small-town dreamers to big-city twirlers, this is your rodeo.

Expect:● A joyful mashup of queer camp, cowboy fantasy, and southern sparkle● A mix of cowboy core and club kid couture● A consent-forward, all-genders-welcome space with room to be loud, proud, and country AF

Dress Code Inspo:(You don’t have to dress up, but we highly recommend it.)● Rhinestone cowboy hats, fringe, sequins, and boots made for strutting● Chaps over fishnets, bolo ties with crop tops, denim-on-denim with glitter accents● Country drag, rodeo raver, non-binary cowfolk chic● Bring your most fabulous, freaky, and feral frontier fashion

WHAT TO BRING:● Valid ID (19+)● Danceable boots or comfy shoes● Phones charged for selfies● Cash/card for bar● Joy, consent, and cowboy energy

No hate. No harassment. No TERFs, bigots, or body-shaming.✅ Radical inclusion, chosen family, safe space, and a whole lotta love

Got accessibility needs or sensory sensitivity? Email us in advance: mccottevents@gmail.com

A Queerly Crafty Afternoon
2025-07-20 13:00 - 17:00 | The Grove, 18 Louisa St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1R6Y6, Canada
Bring a craft (sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting, embroidery, etc) and enjoy an afternoon with fellow sewists, crafters, and creators! If you think you’ll need a sewing machine or an iron/ironing board, please let Josephine know in advance and she will try to accommodate (i.e., make sure those are available).

This is a masked event! Please bring a KN95 or higher mask (we have KN95s if you don’t have one!)

Have questions about the Grove like parking and how to get in? Check out the FAQs.

Sunday Afternoon Bear Walk
2025-07-20 14:30 - 15:40 | Ottawa / Gatineau Pathways, Ottawa, Canada
Join other gay and bisexual men (including gay and bi transmen) for a one hour walk every Sunday at 2:30pm. Locations vary each week and are posted to the website through the link below.

Spectrum
2025-07-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Youth Services Bureau, 147 Besserer St, Ottawa, K1N 6A7, Canada
Looking for a fun, queer chat with people your age? Want to just hang out, eat some snacks and meet new friends? Are you interested in having some discussions about sexuality, identity, homophobia and your personal experience? YSB is proud to offer Spectrum, a program for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Ottawa!

Spectrum meets every Monday from 5-7 p.m. upstairs at our 147 Besserer St location.

We provide workshops, discussion groups, and art collaborations, as well as counselling services, peer mentoring, and primary care resources.

Spectrum can help with challenges like depression, anxiety and suicide while also offering practical support to navigate the mental health, housing and educational systems.

Spectrum is also a safe space for youth to:

Meet new people

Engage in workshops and discussions

Access services like showers, laundry, computers, telephones

Get referrals

Access trained counsellors and peer mentors if youth need to talk

Just hang out!

Activities include:

An introduction to our space and expectations

A queer current events discussion

Activities

Access to snack during group, showers, laundry, harm reduction supplies, telephone, internet

Access to crisis counsellors from YSB and/or our in-house counsellor from Centretown Community Health Centre

A relaxed space where youth can be out and proud!

Contact: Aidan FritzEmail: afritz@ysb.ca

5-Pin Bowling
2025-07-21 18:30 - 20:00 | West Park Lanes, 1205 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 2Z8, Canada
EVERYONE is welcome (please bring your friends!) to join us for a fun evening of 5-pin bowling at the West Park Lanes bowling alley at 1205 Wellington Street West. We play two games. The cost is $10.00, including shoe rental. It’s quite informal. You don’t have to join a team, just show up at West Park Lanes. Please come to the lanes early—at least 15 minutes early.

Naked Boys Reading: "Body Language"
2025-07-21 20:00 - 22:00 | LIVE! on Elgin, 220 Elgin St #2, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1L7, Canada
They get naked. They read. A different theme every month from Ottawa’s trailblazing literary salon — since July 2017.

We regret that the venue is inaccessible to some people. It is on the second floor of the building and accessible only via stairs. Non-gendered washrooms are available.

Qwarabs Picnic
2025-07-23 18:00 - 21:30 | ON
Join us Wednesday July 23 from 6pm to dark for our monthly queer SWANA/MENA social, for the first time in the great outdoors (weather permitting)!

Qwarabs, Friends and Family of all ages welcome.Registration required using the link below!

Bring something to share and something to sit on like a chair or blanket. Don’t forget bug spray and sun protection.

Location and details will be emailed after registration. We hope to see you there!

K1 Cybersecurity
2025-07-23 18:30 - 20:30 | MAX Ottawa, 400 Cooper St. Suite 9004, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2H8, Canada
🚨 Cybersecurity doesn’t have to be boring!Join us for this month’s Keeping It 100 (English) on July 23 @ 6:30 PM 🕡

We’re talking all things online safety — no tech jargon, just real talk, laughs, and tips to keep your digital life secure 💻🔐

📅 Mark your calendar💬 Bring your questions🍿 Snacks provided

Make sure to register through the form below!

Jackbox Game Night
2025-07-24 17:00 - 19:00 | https://maxottawa.ca/list/jackbox-game-west/
🃏Bring your A-game, and your best one-liners! We’ll be playing Jackbox games, where quick wit, creativity, and a little bit of chaos come together for an unforgettable time! ✨

🌱Leaf Links is open to youth who are ages 13 to 21 from 2SLGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities who are actively involved with a child welfare or Indigenous well-being agency.

📅Date: Thursday, July 24th, 2025⏰Time: 5:00-7:00pm💻 This is a virtual event hosted on Zoom

🔗Sign up now: See link below to register before July 22 at 5:00PM

2SLGBTQ+ Adult Peer Support Group
2025-07-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Diversity Cornwall, 167 Pitt St., Cornwall, Ontario, K6J 3P5, Canada
Diversity Cornwall’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Peer Support Group is hosted by Rhonda Quinn from Quinn Creative Counselling. This group will be a chance to share your experiences as a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and hear from others as well, all in a safe and supportive environment.

The group will meet monthly on Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 7:30PM at the Diversity Cornwall Office, located at 167 Pitt Street.

This event is only for people 18 years old and above who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, and there is no cost to attend.

Register through the link below!

OGRC Weekly Run
2025-07-24 19:00 - 20:00 | T’s Pub, 323 Somerset St W, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0J8, Canada
Join us every Thursday evening for our weekly 5 km run, starting and ending at T’s Pub. We welcome runners of all levels, with multiple pace groups to ensure everyone feels comfortable and supported. Whether you’re looking to push your limits or just enjoy a leisurely jog, there’s a spot for you in our community.
After the run, stick around at T’s Pub to unwind with a cold beer and some great company. It’s the perfect way to cap off a run and connect with fellow gay men. No pressure, just good vibes and good times!
See you at 7:00 PM—let’s hit the pavement together!

Rooted and Replenish
2025-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | The Grove, 18 Louisa St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1R6Y6, Canada
ROOTED and REPLENISH is a nurturing Hatha Yoga session with Celeste Alcena @_celestialhealing… centered on playfulness and earth-love. Where gentle yoga meets intuitive healing practices (such as sound healing and Reiki). This intimate session includes a tea ritual and oracle card reading to support grounding and inner renewal.

Bring your own yoga mat and any other items to support your comfort & care during the session (water, blanket, and blocks, if you have). We’ll have a few extra mats available. KN95 masks are recommended and available if you need one.

WILD: After Dark
2025-07-25 18:00 - 2025-07-26 01:00 | Probe Ottawa, 41 York St 3rd & 4th floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5S7, Canada
Come get WILD, join us for an exciting collaboration between Probe Ottawa and Capital Pups on July 25th for a pet play themed party.

Join us at 6:00 PM for a chill social hang to sniff around, make new friends, and get comfy in the space. Whether you’re a curious critter, rowdy pup, or doting handler, it’s the perfect time to meet the pack and ease into the night.

Then at 8:00 PM, the play space opens up. It’s time to let loose, get a little wild, and roll around in all your pet-tastic glory. Come explore, play, and paws-itively enjoy yourself in a space made for creatures like you.

Let the tail wags and happy howls begin!
