5 activities to celebrate Pride Month

The fifty or so men who make up Montréal Gay Men's Chorus (CGDM) are taking the stage of the Cinquième Salle of the Place des Arts for the first time to mark their ensemble's 20th anniversary on June 7 and 8, 2025.

Rita Baga, Quebec's most famous drag queen, who is also making a name for herself in Europe, is coming back to you with her brand new musical tour, “Spraynet”! A free performance on the Place des Festivals, as part of the Francos de Montréal, on June 14.

Accompanied by her band under the musical direction of Jacob Roberge, “Spraynet” invites you to a real 80s party. Rita will revisit the greatest hits of the decade she loves, as well as perform songs from her first original album, due out in 2025.

Built from the iconography of the hermit, the pig, and the himbo, FACE RIDER is a queer indie sleaze swamp dump. Think of this dance as a slippery bog that celebrates gender deviance, glittery resurrection, and live-laugh-love in the face of the chaos of living together. This performance reinvents the disarming nature of aspirational imagery through the dreary melodies of midwest emo, intimate song lyrics, and the aesthetics of the irresolvable mundane. June 18-21, 2025, at the Maison Théâtre.

Curated by Kristen Hutchison as part of her research residency (2024), the exhibition, presented at Artexte until June 21, 2025, We're Here. We're Lesboqueer. We're Still Fabulous. is composed of documents created by and about Canadian lesbian artists active between 1988 and 2002, from the Artexte collection, as well as posters and newspapers from the Archives lesbiennes du Québec. This exhibition aims to give greater visibility to the works and lives of Canadian lesbian artists.

Panel: Lesboqueer Activism in Montréal

As part of the public programming surrounding the exhibition We’re Here. We’re Lesboqueer. We’re Still Fabulous., join us on June 14, 2025, for a roundtable discussion on lesboqueer activism past, present, and future, featuring Montreal-based queer activists, community workers, and artists from Grind’her, Helem, and Sweet Like Honey.

As part of the NFB's free Salut ciné ! screenings, Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, presented on June 26, 2025, traces the decisive moments that led to the emergence of the 2ELGBTQIA+ movement in Canada and pays tribute to the activists whose acts of resistance earned us our current rights. Using rarely seen archival footage and testimonials, the film takes the audience to the front lines of the struggle. From police raids to the first drag shows, and from communities organizing to the House of Commons, the complex history of Canadian diversity unfolds before our eyes.