PRIDE 2022
While much of the country celebrates Pride in June, Montreal’s LGBTQ2S+ festival has always taken place later in the summer.
Let's #CUcelebrate #CUpride
March in the Pride Parade
Queer Concordia will be walking in Montreal's pride parade this year!
Queer walking tour of Montreal
Watch journalist and Concordia alum Richard Burnett (BA 88) make stops around the city to share Montreal’s rich queer history. In fact, you’ll spot some familiar buildings — including Queer Concordia’s offices on Mackay Street that have been around since 1978! Also on the tour: the Lime Light, Café Cleopatra, The Tropical Room – an important establishment where gay men were first able to openly dance with each other in 1958 — and, of course, Théâtre National. Originally known as Cinéma du Village, this is where the Gay Village got its name.
Discover Le Village
Montreal’s Gay Village is known for being a meeting point for the city’s LGBTQ2S+ community. Running across Ste. Catherine Street East are vibrant and colourful structures that represent the neighborhood’s lively entertainment and exciting nightlife scene.
Despite the closure of many traditional summertime attractions during the pandemic, the neighbourhood remains a great spot to enjoy walks along the main street, which turns into a pedestrian-only zone in the summer.
Proximity to campus: 20 minutes by bicycle or metro
Metro stations: Beaudry, Berri-UQAM
LGBTQ2S+ resources in Montreal
Find resources in Montreal that provide specific support to LGBTQ2S+ people.
Young queers are changing what it means to live in LBGTQ2S+ districts
Montreal’s Gay Village remains the area where the city’s LBGTQ2S+ community embraces its history of civil rights struggles, thriving nightlife and usually peaceful co-existence between commerce and urban grit.
Inspirational Concordians
“I hope my fashion helps free people to be who they want to be.”
Fashion designer Lucas Stowe (BFA 14) has been turning heads on the runway as founder and artistic director of Montreal-based label Lucas Stowe. He credits Concordia and Montreal for his transition from student life to career life.
Pride Month
Learn more from the Concordia Library
Let us stop and set aside some time, today and beyond, to re-educate ourselves about past and present LGBTQ2S+ histories, stories, celebrations and more. Suggested readings or places to start might include:
- Marginality and global LGBT communities : conflicts, civil rights and controversy (2020)
- Trans studies : the challenge to hetero/homo normativities (2016)
- LGBTQ mental health : international perspectives and experiences (2020)
- Critical concepts in Queer Studies and education : an international guide for the twenty-first century (2016)
- Gender : what everyone needs to know (2021)
- Mapping LGBTQ spaces and places : a changing world (2022)
- Queer embodiment : monstrosity, medical violence, and intersex experience (2019)
- Others of my kind : transatlantic transgender histories (2020)
- Queer and Trans madness struggles for social justice (2022)
- Envisioning global LGBT human rights : (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope (2018)
- Queer between the covers : histories of queer publishing and publishing queer voices (2021)
- Documenting rebellions : a study of four lesbian and gay archives in queer times (2020)
- Information activism : a queer history of lesbian media technologies (2020)