Montreal, Canada
Events
Divers/Cité
Jul 24 - Aug 1, 2010
For many, many years this used to be Montreal's Pride celebration, but in 2007 they decided they wanted to switch things up a bit and become exclusively a queer music and cultural festival (a new pride formed and now takes place two weeks later - see below). One do not miss Divers/Cité event is Lesbomonde, the biggest dyke party of the year in Montreal. But buy tickets early as it’s often sold out or you’re stuck waiting forever in line as you watch all the cute girls who planned ahead just saunter right in.
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Divers/Cité's numbers have never seased to grow. The difference from a while back is that we now actually do a count and not an estimate. If other GLBT events were forced to prove their numbers like we were a while back everything would change. Example,some pride parades and events site a million in attendence. Well, a million people watching a parade is a crowd twenty deep on each side, for about 45Km long... GO figure ... As for dropping the parade as some mention , we also had a vision of forming 2 GLBT events from one. Things did not work as we had planned and we LOST control, but there is now another GLBT event as we originally planned, the more the better, n'est-ce pas? For a community that has always strived for change there is a lot of barking when change does happen. A word of advise for those working in the GLBT community: no matter what you do there will always be bitching and the only way to stop the bitching is to stop doing things in the public sphere. So keep striving and believe with passsion ... like the 200 and more that work annually on this unique event.
Suzanne Girard, director and cofounder of Divers/Cité on Dec 04, 2008
Pervers/Cité
Early Aug, 2010 (TBA)
An anti-establishment take on the other Montreal queer fest, Divers/Cité. "A week of events, workshops, performances, shows, music, video projections, artistic production, and direct action aimed at feminists, anti-capitalists, queers, anarchists, drags, lesbians, seropositive people, communists, transgendered people, artists, fags, dykes, gender-fuckers, sex workers, punks, flamers, (s)kids, bizarros and all the folks that love them!"
Célébrations LGBTA Montréal - Montreal Pride
Mid-Aug, 2010 (TBA)
This new Pride event formed in 2007 when the former Pride, known as Divers/Cité, decided they wanted to focus on the music and culture side of their event, and drop the Pride parade and community day. Even though it's a newbie, Célébrations already attracted about 150,000 participants. The big party for us is BYOL, short for Bring Your Own Lesbian!
Coupe de la reine
Early Sep, 2010 (TBA)
Very successful international gay and lesbian tennis tournament taking place every Labour Day weekend with players of all levels from across North America and Europe.
Montreal Burlesque Festival
Late Sep, 2010 (TBA)
Even though Montrealers have long been fans of burlesque, it was only in 2009 that they finally getting had their own burlesque fest, and we're hoping it will be back again in 2010.
Sex, Labour, Smut Film and Video Festival,
Mid-Oct, 2010 (TBA)
This indie event is heavy on the dirty sex, along with a good serving of activism. With 20 films over four days, every flick has to include at least two of the three subjects brought up in the festival's title. With a queer director of programming, the Smut Fest has a very queer bent. The first edition of this fest took place in 2009 and we have to hope it will be back in 2010.
image+nation: Montreal’s International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Late Oct, 2010 (TBA)
Run by two lesbians, this annual international LGBT film festival is usually held in November, but in 2009 they decided to switch things up and have the fest at the end of October. Expect line-ups around the block for some of the more popular girl flicks.
Gaylaxicon
Oct 29 - Oct 31, 2010
“Gaylaxicon is the annual international LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Gaming Convention, held in a different city each year hosted by a local GLBTQ fan organization.” Where else will you find a queer SF costume contest, Chocolate Symposium, SF Jeopardy game and a live performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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Looking forward to this!
A SF Fan on Mar 03, 2010
Coupe de Montréal
Mid-Nov, 2010 (TBA)
Annual swim/water polo/synchronised swimming/diving competition that attracts upwards of 300 participants from about 15 cities across North America. The competition is open to all however and some Europeans participate from year to year. The event is always held during American Thanksgiving.
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