Legendary Canadian and American talents return to the virtual stage on November 14, 2021 for The 519 Virtual Annual Gala to support Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQ+ community centre.

Hallowe’en is the creepiest of all seasons but you’re an adult - you can handle it right? We’ve gone looking for the coolest and most eerie of the BC Lower Mainland’s October celebrations. Enjoy.

Sher Films announced today that director Vinay Giridhar’s feature documentary debut Emergence: Out of the Shadows, a film that started its international festival run this September in the US, will be heading home to BC for its Canadian premiere at KDocsFF. Read more for screening opportunities in BC.

Join Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit authors, speakers, and storytellers at this year’s Vancouver Writers Festival.

Artists Eva Wong & Naoko Fukumaru present Mass Reincarnation of Wish Fragments - A SUM gallery exhibition. Oct 28 - Dec 15

Something in the Water, created and performed by transgender star; S.E. Grummett (Grumms) returns home after representing Canada at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of Spotlight Canada. The show is a comedic deep dive into gender, using puppets, live feed video projections and physical comedy.

The short film, starring Sera-Lys McArthur (Outlander, Monkey Beach) and Aidan Devine (A History of Violence, Suicide Squad) delves into the missing & murdered Indigenous women and girls epidemic and the increased violence and discrimination that Indigenous women face.

The Fandom is a very queer space, with an estimate of 80% of furries identifying on the queer spectrum. “Of course furry is full of sexuality,” says veteran furry Rod O’Riley, “because furry is full of human beings, who are alive and thinking and feeling.”

A first Pride, a first Date - whatever the occasion, what can be better, and safer, than a fabulous Pride Cruise! Dancing on the decks, under the stars with friends or romantic possibilities - celebrate life this year with a Pride Cruise.

Over this past week there are have soooo many events announced. Here’s the most recent listing with links. Excited!

Alternative Pride 2021 returns to Vancouver to offer the public queer spaces, to platform queer artists, and to raise funds and activism for important Vancouver queer causes.

2021 Queer Arts Festival (QAF): Dispersed — Vancouver’s QAF announces its first hybrid format festival in it’s not easy being green, opening Jul 24, 2021.

This year, HIM is focusing on hosting peers from within our communities and holding space to amplify their voices, experiences and identities.

While Vancouver Pride Society is hosting over 60 events this year, many of the in-person offerings are sold out. But don’t despair! There’s more out there to discover -

Celebrating 33 years of illuminating and advancing queer lives through film, education and dialogue, VQFF will be presented online in a video-on-demand (VOD) format, with a few small in-person events.

AfroQueer seeks to create safer spaces of healing love and celebration during Pride season.

If you’re planning to spend some time downtown Vancouver this summer, a Walking Tour might be the perfect activity between morning brunch on the patio and cocktails in the lounge at sunset. Being outside is safe so grab your friends and Get Out!

Pride is a time to learn + grow! As part of this year's Pride programming, we are engaging facilitators and experts to deliver five workshops discussing different topics throughout the month of July.

It’s gonna be a hybrid Pride this year with events being planned throughout BC. Some online, some in person and all of them a celebration of our diversity!

Pandemics are sexy – not. However, Pride springs eternal. Things may be opening up a little (no pun intended…) but are unlikely to have much in the way of in-person events in most places for the June Pride season. These sexy virtual Pride events give BC queers a chance to check out what is going on in other places.