What’s On Queer BC
for the 2SLGBTQiA+ Community in BC. Events, stories, resources, poster wall, and the Rainbow Store.
BC’s queer lifestyle magazine
Photo: Fonda Vit, Scarlette Rosé, Heather Ripley and Dandy at New West Pride
UPCOMING EVENTS
A funny and heartfelt exploration of bisexuality, relationships, queer identity, and learning to trust your own instincts. Five shows Aug 28. 30. Sept 2. 4. 6.
Let’s get messy for a good cause with JELLO WRESTLING!
Camp Out is a comedy variety show featuring a star studded lineup highlighting different performers from Vancouver and the Fraser Valley!
One of North America's very first queer history tours, and your guide Glenn Tkach, will leave you laughing, crying, and thinking over two hours spent exploring the city's West End.
The HIMBO Jock Tea Dance is coming back this summer hotter and wetter than ever! Get ready to soak up some sun and scoop up some fun!
Come to Pony Room for a night of drag, bingo, cocktails, snacks, and the sweet, sweet thrill of yelling B-I-N-G-O!
We are back for another Drag Show at The Iconic Dinghy Dock Pub!
Join us for an exciting Drag Queen Bingo Night! Get ready for an unforgettable evening with a fabulous Queen calling out the numbers.
Defy gravity and come laugh, eat, and see some wacky drag for one night and one night only!
Join us at the Roundhouse Theatre for a geeky, sexy, body-positive, and hilarious night of burlesque out with your fellow nerds!
Get ready to dance and scream along to what is indisputably Beyoncé's loudest album.
The Fringe Festival is lighting up Granville Island every night with a mix of your fave local performers, refreshments, and fun activities at our covered outdoor patio
Your favourite queer HANGOUT PARTY is has one last summer fun party—> cause SUN’S OUT, FUN’S OUT.
A copious cavalcade of top notch talent and captivating
cabaret await at the RIO.
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter LP has captivated global audiences with their transcendent, sold-out live shows, soar-away vocals, and genre-fluid style. You don’t want to miss this concert!
The ALL king Drag competition RETURNS to The Birdhouse
A fun-filled event created for kids of all ages, queer families, and the friends and allies who love them!
That’s right, Birdies ~ we’re combining THREE of our favourite things into one big summer send-off: a patio party, a drag show AND a market!
All Asian comedy is back from summer break and this time we're coming back right in Chinatown at Pony Room
Camp Rock AND Highschool Musical crossover in a chaotic "where are they now" drag show with Burna Dart, Glimmer, and more!
This year's theme, Every Kind of Everything, anchors a lineup of more than 80 productions featuring international and local creators.
2SLGBTQiA+ MAGAZINE
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!
Do you have stories in your pocket? Have you promised yourself you’ll send them into a publisher in 2025? Here’s a grand list calls for submission and contests for the lgbtq2si+ community. Updatd monthly.
Our straight and queer families don't live in separate worlds. We shop for groceries, worry about the kids, look after our partners, and get on with the business of living. And sometimes, somewhere in the middle of all that ordinary life, being queer becomes part of the conversation.
What The Frock Productions presents Drag Fight Club 2026 at the Hotel At The Waldorf, featuring 12 performers competing head-to-head for the crown.
The theme, Every Kind of Everything, reflects a season of over 80 shows by artists from around the world, two days of free Kids Fringe programming for children and families, and the return of the all-ages Fringe Patio with free nightly music and entertainment
SUM gallery presents To Be Black, Is To Be Free, a duo exhibition by Vancouver-based artists Simone Chnarakis and Valérie d. Walker. The exhibition honours Emancipation Day by centering 2SLGBTQIA+ Black resilience, lineage, and liberation.
SUM gallery presents To Be Black, Is To Be Free, a duo exhibition by Vancouver-based artists Simone Chnarakis and Valérie d. Walker. The exhibition honours Emancipation Day by centering 2SLGBTQIA+ Black resilience, lineage, and liberation.
Taylor Miwa, a Port Moody-based photographer shares her photos of this year’s Port Moody Pride.
It’s time for Vancouver’s secrets to come out of the closet. From drag kings and two spirit warriors, to queer church ministers and transgender crime fighters, this walking tour is a celebration of the unsung heroes who forever changed the social fabric of our city.
Public Disco's Pride Block Party returns to Mount Pleasant on Saturday, August 1, marking 10 years of the non-profit's journey of turning unconventional urban spaces into pop-up dance-floors. Tickets are already 80% sold out.
WOQ SUPPORTERS
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.
Physical board games, card decks, and informal play pass between generations through shared practice, contrasting with the automated rules and preservation challenges of digital platforms.
A streak of bad matches feels frustrating, but neuroscience shows that close defeats trigger high reward prediction error, forcing the brain to adapt faster than standard wins ever allow. Turning rank-drop frustration into steady mechanical progress comes down to how player performance data gets analyzed.
VQFF is Western Canada’s largest queer arts event and Vancouver’s second-largest film festival. Its programming centres 2SLGBTQIA+ stories while placing particular attention on work involving Indigenous people, Black communities, people of colour, and people across different experiences of gender, sexuality, expression, and ability.
Quinn’s place in Canadian sport cannot be reduced to one ceremonial night, one Pride campaign or one social media moment. Their career matters because the performance came first, and the visibility followed inside the pressure of elite football.