Queer MTL things to do: September 2025

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🎥 Cinema
👑 Drag
🥳 Parties
🎶 Concert
✊ Activism
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans
🏳️‍🌈 Community
😆 Comedy
🎭 Performance
💪 Sports
👯‍♀️ Dance
🎤 Karaoke
🎨 Arts
📚 Literary / Educational
🕹️ Gaming
👠 Ballroom / Vogue

Find tickets for drag shows at Cabaret Mado and Bar Le Cocktail at their websites.

🏳️‍🌈 The Québec Lesbian Archives presents Keeping our memories alive! Tracing lesbian history in Montréal, MEM—Centre des mémoires montréalaises all month long.

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec presents Sex Garage: 35 Years Later, Archives gaies du Québec until September 13, 2025 (check website for opening times).

🎨 The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts presents Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors from September 27, 2025 to March 8, 2026.

Monday, September 1, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Montréal Fetish Weekend 2025, various locations
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado 

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

🎭 The Poly Mic, weekly queer variety open mic, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 

👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz

 🎨 Drink & Draw by @Hommehomo, Bar Le Cocktail
 

Thursday, September 4, 2025

🥳 Palomosa Block Party with Zack Fox and Tallandskiiny, Parc Jean-Drapeau

👠 Black Gxrl Sesh for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh

👑 Mado Sings ABBA with Mado Lamotte and Squeegee Nicky, Cabaret Mado

Friday, September 5, 2025

🎶 Palomosa with M.I.A., Nettspend, Fcukers, The Hellp, Mgna Crrrta, TDJ, MCR-T, Minna-No-Kimochi, Mechatok, MRD and Isla Den, Parc Jean-Drapeau

🎭 Spectacular: A Night of Tease! with Yikes Macaroni, The Foxy Lexxi Brown, Lily Monroe and Miami Minx, The Wiggle Room

🥳 After Palomosa—SPF Infini x Live from Earth with Fcukers (DJ set), DJ Smokey and Nasty Gloss, Société des arts technologiques [SAT]

🥳 Friday I’m In Lovepost-punk and new wave dance party with DJ Davidé, Cabaret Berlin

👑 Girls’ Night Out: Full 2000s with Krystella Fame, Kiara and Emma Déjàvu, Cabaret Mado

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado
👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, September 6, 2025

🎶 Palomosa with Arca, Rebecca Black, Yeule, Marie Davidson, Loukeman, Cecile Believe, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, X-Coast, Cult Memer, Shadow Wizard Money Gang and Lia Plutonic b2b Lis Dalton, Parc Jean-Drapeau

🏳️‍🌈 The Québec Lesbian Archives presents Retracer nos histoires: Pratiques historiennes et archivistiques, a round-table with Fallon Rouillier, Aurélie Chouinard and Samia Dumais as part of their exhibition Keeping our memories alive! Tracing lesbian history in Montréal, MEM—Centre des mémoires

🥳 After Palomosa with Rebecca Black (DJ set) and Oddly Satisfying, Société des arts technologiques [SAT]

🎤 Bareoke karaoke strip tease, Café Cléopatra

👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Beyoncé, Cabaret Mado

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Lady Boom Boom and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, September 7, 2025

👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch hosted by Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand

👑 Le Brunch aux Folles with Misty Waterfalls, Lady Boom Boom and Suri Racha, Bar Social Verdun

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, Patro Villeray

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Tuesday, September 9, 2025
 

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, TAZ

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Garden of Shade: Nintendo with Sarah Winters, Lulu Shade, Teddy Boop, Kleopatra Perfection and Ad’horrible, Bar Le Cocktail

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz 

🎭 The Poly Mic, weekly queer variety open mic, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 

🎶 Morrissey, Place Bell

Thursday, September 11, 2025

👠 Black Gxrl Sesh for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh

👯‍♀️ Trevoga + Projet Alterdogs, Tangente Danse

🎭 High School Musical Burlesque! with Petro, Lily Monroe, Butterscotch Blondie, Enshantay, Rose de Flore and Satin Simone, The Wiggle Room

👑 Smash ta perruque with Misty Waterfalls and special guests, Cabaret Mado

Friday, September 12, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 BLUF Montréal leather men monthly gathering, Bar Le Stud

🎥 Films With Style presents Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Cinema du Musée

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, September 13, 2025

🥳 KVNT Detour genre-bending QTBIPOC party with Nino Brown, Black Daria, Duppy Grlz, Buccaltheft, Christen Marlot, Vicky, Kuntiana and Kiara, Bain Mathieu

🥳 RuPaul DJs at Off Piknic, Parc Jean-Drapeau

🎶 Wet Leg with mary in the junkyard, MTELUS

🥳 Super Taste MTL presents BABES! Girl Pop Dance Party (Vol. 6), Cabaret Berlin 

👑 Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Robin des Bois
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Emma Déjàvu and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, September 14, 2025

👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch hosted by Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 

🤣 Touching Grass, a comedy fundraiser for carewagons mutual aid collective with Sean Carson, Lucy Gervais, Daniel Carin, Shawn Stenhouse, Sin Dee and more, Co-Op Bar Milton-Parc

🤣 Tales of Gender Affirmation Pop-Up comedy show, Café Eevee

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, Patro Villeray

🥳 SevenSins Productions presents the Pangea Queer Day Party! with DJ Rogue and Sev, Pangea

👑 Pangea Duelling Divas Drag Brunch with Sev and Rosy Bloom, Pangea

👑 Afternoon Drag Café hosts Drag? In my Dungeons? hosted by Itsh and Late Bloomer, CJE Montréal Centre-Ville

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Happy Birthday Sarah Winters with Sarah Winters and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Monday, September 15, 2025

👑 Tribute to RuPaul with Luly Shade, Esirena, Aizysse Baga, Kiara and Natachatte, Cabaret Mado

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, TAZ

🎶 Frankie Cosmos with Fantasy of a Broken Heart and Moontype, Bar Le Ritz PDB

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz 

🎭 The Poly Mic, weekly queer variety open mic, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 

🎶 Nourished By Time with Zsela, Le Studio TD

🎶 Kybba, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

 

Thursday, September 18, 2025

👠 Black Gxrl Sesh for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh

🎥 Queer Cinema Club Montréal and Image+Nation presents Basil Dearden’s Victim, Cinema Moderne

🥳 Super Taste MTL presents The Showgirl Era: Taylor Swift Dance Party!, Bar Le Ritz PDB

🎶 Jacques Greene with Nosaj Thing, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

👑 Le Sami Party with Sami Landri and special guests, Cabaret Mado

Friday, September 19, 2025

🥳 All Night with Gabrielle Kwarteng, Mad Miran, OK Williams and Roza Terenzi, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

🥳 KARAH All Night Long with KARAH and guests, Esc

🥳 Super Taste MTL presents KIDS! Alternative + Indie Sleaze Dance Party, Bar le Ritz PDB

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, September 20, 2025

📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, Espace des Possibles dans La Petite-Patrie

🎤 Bareoke karaoke strip tease, Café Cléopatra

🥳 Dad Bod with DJs Dr. Love and Laura Ingalls, Robin des Bois

🥳 Daring Tribe presents RED leather night, Le Red Room

🥳 CLUB SAT x Hauterageous with Otis, Monib, Siren Mars, Dustbunny and Lucid Grooves, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

🎥 Roger Vadim’s Barbarella with Jane Fonda, Cinémathèque québécoise

👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Shania Twain, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Adele, Cabaret Mado
👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Disney Villains with Démone LaStrange, Woody Fungi and Asmatix, Bar Le Cocktail

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, September 21, 2025

👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch hosted by Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, Patro Villeray

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Monday, September 22, 2025

🎶 Sharon Van Etten with Torres, Le National

🎶 Wolf Alice, Théâtre Beanfield

🎶 Viagra Boys with BODEGA, MTELUS

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, TAZ

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

🎶 POP Montréal, various locations

👠 Vogue Class with Kuntiana, Studio Bizz 

🎤 Aussenwelt hosts Queer Karaoke Night Spéciale Glitter, 429 Avenue Viger E

🎭 The Poly Mic, weekly queer variety open mic, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 

🎶 múm with Laurie Torres, Theatre Fairmount

🎶 Hand Habits with guests, La Sala Rossa

🎥 FILM POP presents John Coney’s Space is the Place, Cinema Moderne

Thursday, September 25, 2025

🎶 POP Montréal, various locations 

👠 Black Gxrl Sesh for Black folks only, @blackgxrlsesh

🎭 Burly Workout with The Irony, Cosmic Crème, Maya Iconique, Lady Boom Boom, Moonshine Sunshine and Milady Marcelle, The Wiggle Room

🎶 Zola Jesus with guests, La Sala Rossa

Friday, September 26, 2025

🎶 POP Montréal, various locations 

🥳 Homopop presents HOMOPOP Dance Party: 6^th Anniversary with Kiara, Cabaret Berlin

🕹️ The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) 2025, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)

🥳 Cave of Bats at The Church, a goth, post-punk, EBM, dark wave and more party with DJ Dimitri, Church of St. John the Evangelist

🎥 Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda, Cinema Moderne

🎥 FILM POP presents Ido Fluk’s Köln 75, Cinema Moderne

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, September 27, 2025

🎶 POP Montréal, various locations 

🎶 U.S. Girls with Elle Barbara and Shunk, Théâtre Rialto

🎨 The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts opens Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts

🥳 Daddy with Reid Bourgeois and Plastik Patrik, Cabaret Berlin

🎶 Lorde with Blood Orange and The Japanese House, Bell Centre

🥳 Making Time XXV with Maria Somerville, DJ Python, James K, Djrum, aya, Dave P., SHERELLE, Honeydrip, Zillas on Acid, CPR Annie, URA and Myfanwy, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Cabaret Mado

👑 Mado reçoit with Mado Lamotte and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Crystal Starz and special guests, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, September 28, 2025

🎶 POP Montréal, various locations 

👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch hosted by Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 

🎥 The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts presents Victory According to Miss Chief: Short films by Kent Monkman, Cinema du Musée

🏳️‍🌈 Community Clothing Swap—Westmount, queer, family-friendly and sustainable, Phoenix Hall

🎥 Pop Montréal presents Billy Shebar and David Roberts’ Monk in Pieces, a documentary on Meredith Monk, with post-film discussion with Sarah Rossy and John Hollenbeck, Cinema Public

🎥 FILM POP presents Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark with Björk and Catherine Deneuve, Cinema Moderne

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, Patro Villeray

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Gala du Cocktail with Michel Dorion and special guests, plus red carpet!, Bar Le Cocktail

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

🎨 Scenes from a New Opera in Development by Kent Monkman: The Miss Chief Cycle, Bourgie Hall

💪 Montréal Roller Derby presents MTLRD’S 2025 BOOTCAMP, TAZ

🏳️‍🌈 Lesbian Speed Dating (Ages 27-43), Bar Le Mal Nécessaire

🎶 The Sex Pistols, MTELUS

👑 Full Gisèle with Gisèle Lullaby and special guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drop Dead Gorgeous with Misty Waterfalls, Bar Social Verdun

OTHERS

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Project 10 hosts regularly scheduled drop-in events and workshops for queer youth. Follow them on Instagram for all the latest details.   
 
🎨 Queer Bodies MTL / Tiohtiakë hosts monthly live model drawing sessions. Find schedule, model and location info on their Instagram.  
    
👠 Montréal’s ballroom goings on can also be found at the Montréal Kiki Ballroom Alliance (Mtl-KBA) and Ballroom4Community pages on Facebook and Instagram.    
 
👠 Black Gxrl Sesh ballroom collective for Black Trans Queer People and Black Femmes hosts weekly events and open studios. Check their instagram for details and times.  

💅 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.   

🎤 Queer Karaoke MTL hosts regular karaoke events. Follow their Instagram for dates and location.   

🛼 Montréal Roller Derby hosts regular matches and open boot camps throughout the year. Follow their Facebook page for additional info.   
     
⚽️ The Juke Lesbo-Queer and Trans inclusive soccer league collective offers weekly pick-up games.   
     
⚾️ The Balle Molle Queer Softball league holds regular games and events.    

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud.   

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact tango.queer@hotmail.com or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts.   

🏐 Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play.    

🕹 Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!   

🏃🏾 Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!   

🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders’ regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.   

🧗‍♀️ Queer Bloc’s monthly bouldering events bring together MTL’s queer climbing community with live DJs, after-drinks and even a tattoo artist on-site. Follow their Instagram for all of the details.