Montreal gay pride 2024
With a jam-packed schedule of events featuring over 240 artists, including some vast names in music and drag, there’s something for nearly everyone at Fierté Montreal Pride 2024.
The festival officially runs from Aug. 1 to 11, but Fierté is also supplemented by some earlier collective events, starting on July 25. And to accommodate the ever-growing crowds of festival-goers, a third location has been added as of this year: the Quartier des Spectacles will feature a lineup of shows, activities and events, as well as the usual locations in the Village and the Olympic Park Esplanade.
Here are just a few of the free outdoor events going on for Montreal Pride.
Afro Drag
Kicking off the launch of official Fierté Montréal events is an evening of Black drag excellence at the Esplanade Tranquille’s Loto-Québec stage, the main meeting space at the festival’s added Quartier des Spectacles location. Nine artists will take the stage for this nighttime cabaret, with a DJ position sure to get the crowd moving. (Quartier des Spectacles, Thursday, Aug. 1, 8–11 p.m.)
Transcendance
Montreal’s trans community is invited to a extraordinary 5 à 7 move party at the Esplanade Tranquille, hosted by Mis
Fierté Montréal Festival is the largest LGBTQ+ gathering in the Francophone world. In addition to the city’s welcoming LGBTQ+ bars and hangouts, Montreal is putting on a star-studded show that's focused on society and involvement.
The 2025 parade theme, "Blossom here, now!", celebrates the right of the 2SLGBTQIA+ society to grow, thrive, and love openly.
Montreal’s first Pride parade was held in June 1979 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. La Brigade Rose organizers in Montreal drew 52 marchers in 1979. Forty years later, in 2019, total attendance at Montreal Pride topped 3 million.
This summer’s festival features live in-person performances, concerts and activities on the Esplanade of the Olympic Park—Montreal Pride’s main site—as adequately as in the LGBTQ+ Village and downtown.
What time does the Pride parade begin in Montreal?
The 2025 Pride parade is on Sunday, August 10 at 1 p.m.
When is the Fierté Montréal Festival?
This 19th edition of Fierté runs from July 31 to August 10, 2025.
What are the festival highlights?
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Annual Fierté celebrations in Montreal wrapped up yesterday with the Pride Parade on René-Levesque Boulevard. The LGBTQ2IA+ community and their allies were out in the streets in massive numbers as the parade progressed in full festive colour — this year’s theme was We Are the Rainbow, after all — moving to party music and driven by the energy of defiance. Watch our 2024 Montreal Pride Parade photos below.
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Fierté Montréal is committed to make its programming as accessible as workable so that everyone can fully enjoy the festival.
Learn more about the actions we undertake to provide or improve accessibility in the various activities of Fierté Montréal Festival.
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