- 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Canadian Association of LGBTQ2S+ Lawyers Prisme Conference
- This year's theme: Unity in Law: Shaping the Future of 2SLGBTQ+ Rights.
- Prisme creates an inclusive and collaborative forum to discuss current issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in the legal profession and the advancement of 2SLGBTQ+ rights, both in Canada and around the world.
- This event will bring together judges, lawyers, activists, and students from across the country, all committed to building networks within our communities, increasing representation and equity for 2SLGBTQ+ legal professionals in Canada, and advancing 2SLGBTQ+ human rights.
- Registration: Prices range based on type of registrant. Virtual options are available.
- Location: Halifax Convention Centre, 1650 Argyle Street
- Noon to 1:00 p.m.
- Fit Together: Pilates with Aura Wellness
- This instalment of our Fit Together series is a pilates workout with Ryan from Aura Wellness. You are sure to work up a sweat and a smile! All skill levels are welcome. Details online.
- Location: Garrison Grounds
- Noon to 1:00 p.m.
- Lunch & Learn Panel: Thriving, Not Just Surviving: 2SLGBTQIA+ Mental Health, Joy, and Community Care
- 2SLGBTQIA+ communities face disproportionately high rates of anxiety, depression, suicidality, and barriers to affirming mental health care due to discrimination, stigma, and systemic inequities. At the same time, queer and trans communities have cultivated powerful traditions of resilience, creativity, and collective healing. Thriving, Not Just Surviving is a panel conversation that brings these realities together—examining the ongoing challenges while centering the joy, connection, and cultural knowledge that sustain 2SLGBTQIA+ wellbeing.
- Grounded in lived experience, community expertise, and mental health practice, this panel explores what thriving looks like for queer and trans people beyond survival. Through discussion of joy as a mental health practice, trauma and healing, chosen family, cultural expression, and sustainable activism, panelists will highlight both the systemic forces impacting mental health and the community-led strategies that foster belonging, resilience, and care. The session reframes mental health as a shared responsibility rooted in solidarity and collective flourishing rather than an individual burden.
- Details online.
- Location: BusStopTheatre, 2203 Gottingen Street
- 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Bigger Bodies Picnic
- The Bigger Bodies Picnic is a potluck-style picnic (bring food/snacks for yourself and for others if you wish to do so) intended for people who identify as living in a bigger body. This is a free event intended for all ages 16+. Details online.
- Location: Fort Needham Memorial Park, 3340 Union Street
- 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Free Rainbow Pancake Breakfast
- Join us at Power House Youth Centre for our Mini Cake Decorating Workshop hosted by Midsummer Bakery! Open to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and allies ages 13-24.
- Space is limited; pre-registration is recommended. Email powerhouseyouthcentre@halifax.ca to sign up. More info online. Location: Power House Youth Centre, 1606 Bell Road
- 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Two-Spirit Craft Activity
- A hands-on, low-barrier activity open to all ages, offering a joyful creative space for 2S/LGBTQ+ Indigenous folks and their allies. Materials and facilitation provided by WabanakiTwoSpiritAlliance. More info online.
- Location: Garrison Grounds ---
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Free Mini Cake Decorating Workshop
- Join us at Power House Youth Centre for our Mini Cake Decorating Workshop hosted by Midsummer Bakery! Space is limited; pre-registration is recommended. Email powerhouseyouthcentre@halifax.ca to sign up. Open to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and allies ages 13-24.
- At: Power House Youth Centre
- 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Sapphic Hangout
- Lay down a picnic blanket, grab a snack, and have fun at the Sapphic hangout! This closed-space hangout will have crafts, games, and good times. Come down with friends, or make some there! More info online.
- Location: Garrison Grounds
- 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- Movie: But I'm a Cheerleader
- Join us for a screening of the cult comedy classic, But I'm A Cheerleader.
- Megan is an all-American girl. She's a cheerleader and has a boyfriend, but she doesn't like kissing him very much, and she's pretty tactile with her cheerleader friends, and she only has pictures of girls up in her locker.
- Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn how to be straight. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?
- Rated 14A | 1999 | 1h 25min
- Info online. Free, no registration; for teens and adults.
- Location: Cole Harbour Public Library, 51 Forest Hills Parkway
- 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- Teen Night: DIY Pins for Pride
- Welcome to Teen Night, where all the fun happens! Pins, beads, charms, and oh so many colours to choose from. Join us and create a pin that is uniquely you.
- Oh, and did we mention it's totally free? For Grades 7-12.
- Info online.
- Location: Sackville Public Library, 636 Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville
- 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Desert Hearts
- With Lucky Line Dance. No cover.
- Location: BacklotHfx, 2103 Gottingen Street
- 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- RRANS Community Hangout - Drag Karaoke Night
- Dress up in your best drag look or clothing that makes you feel pride, and come sing some karaoke with RainbowRefugeesNS! More info online.
- Location: Local Council of Women, 989 Young Avenue
- 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Out & Active
- Game on! Join HalifaxPride for an evening of low stakes fun with Volleyball NS, some friendly matches. Whether you know how to play or have never touched a ball in your life, all are welcome to play! WRMII will be spinning tracks to keep the good vibes going all night!
- More info online.
- Location: Greenfoot Energy Centre, 61 Gary Martin Dr, Bedford
- 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- Gays on the Clocktower: A Blood on the Clocktower Special for Pride!
- Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 15 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk.
- Join Andrey as Storyteller for this spooky mystery game! NEW! This session features a custom script to celebrate Pride! Beginners always welcome but this will be a more advanced script!
- During a hellish thunderstorm, on the stroke of midnight, there echoes a bone-chilling scream. The townsfolk rush to investigate and find the town storyteller murdered, their body impaled on the hands of the clocktower, blood dripping onto the cobblestones below. A Demon is on the loose, murdering by night and disguised in human form by day. Some have scraps of information. Others have abilities that fight the evil or protect the innocent. But the Demon and its evil minions are spreading lies to confuse and breed suspicion. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon and save themselves? Or will evil overrun this once peaceful village?
- Registration: $10 each (+tax and Eventbrite fees). Event is ALL AGES, but please note that any guests under 14 must be accompanied by a chaperone.
- Location: Location: Board Room Game Cafe, 1256 Barrington Street
- 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Pride Ride Bike Party
- Bike Party, Halifax Pride edition! Come dance, sing and roll with us through Halifax before joining for our annual Pride Ride afterparty. Bikes, skates, blades, scooters and all wheels welcome!
- RSVP on Facebook
- Location: Emera Oval
- 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Halliwood Queers Game Show
- The Haliwood Queers Game Show is a live, high-energy gameshow inspired by Hollywood Squares, with a queer Halifax twist. Brought to you in partnership with Eastern Front Theatre, the game features a grid of bold personalities and quick-witted contestants, and it’s packed with shady answers, unexpected moments, and a lot of chaos. Audience members have the chance to participate, jump into the game, and be part of the action.
- More details (including cast) online.
- Location: Garrison Grounds
- 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Dancing With Pride: Salsa
- Join us for a FREE Salsa class in a safe space that celebrates all bodies, abilities and identities. All ages welcome, no partner required. Class will be held in the Lilian Piercey Hall at the Maritime Conservatory. Instructor: Cole Richardson.
- Sign up online.
- Location: Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, 6199 Chebucto Road
- 8:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m.
- RadPride's Dry Dance Party
- Dance! Dance! PWYC at the door.
- Location: RadStorm, 2177 Gottingen Street
- 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- Sapphic Sillies
- Celebrate Pride with a laugh: A showcase of HRMs best & proudest funny females! Including: The Coast's Best of Award winner Sharon McCormack?; Serius XM's Adrienne Gabrielle; Fringe Festival queen Sara Gram; Just for Laughs showcaser Maddie Arsenault; headlined by hilarious Roz Kennery; and hosted by AlvaSparkles?.
- Laughs. Games. Prizes.
- Tickets: $17.57, online.
- Location: RumoursHFX, 1668 Lower Water Street
- 8:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m.
- Crystal Queer - A Sober Drag & Burlesque Show
- Step into a world of glitter, glamour, and fabulous performances to get into the spirit of Pride; without the actual spirits! Get ready to dance, cheer, and experience the magic of drag and burlesque in a substance-free environment for the third year in a row.
- The Soberish Mocktail Shoppe will be tending the dry bar! They will be providing a variety of non-alcoholic beverage options, including but not limited to non-alcoholic canned beer, canned beverages, hand crafted mocktails, and more!
- Tickets: Early Bird: $10.00; Advanced: $15.00; Last Chance: $20.00
- Location: North Endurance, 5687 West Street
- 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
- NightSpa - Pride Solo Play Day
- This is an ALL MEMBERS EVENT. We are inviting all 5700+ NightSpa members to attend this event but you can expect 15-25+ people to be in attendance. For legal and safety reasons you must be a Night Spa member or the guest of a member in order to attend. This event is for those who like to take matters into their own hands. We will gather twice this night at set times to sit and view each other intensely. Everyone is to keep their hands to themselves while in the circle as we enjoy each other's company. This will be our third time hosting this theme, the last being during Winter Fest 2026. It was standing room only as we got things started. With some minor adjustments. : 8:30pm, upstairs will now be the start time of the first gathering. We will sit in the social area seats and watch each other with pleasure. 10pm will be the second planned gathering but we will be moving things downstairs for a darker version of the same thing. If people want to connect outside of these times/spaces they are welcomed to. If it is your first time at Night Spa know that you'll need a tour that takes about 15 minutes, so be on time or you may miss the first circle!
- Additional details online.
- Location: NightSpa, 2199 Gottingen Street
- 8:00 p.m. to Midnight
- Karaoke
- With Troy Ward. No cover.
- Location: BacklotHfx, 2103 Gottingen Street
- 9:00 p.m.
- Poison Apple: A Murder Mystery
- The cider is cold. The suspects are hot. The alibis are terrible.
- Poison Apple is an interactive drag and burlesque murder mystery where the audience decides whodunnit. Follow the clues, question the suspects, and prepare for an evening of camp, chaos, and criminal levels of foolishness.
- Tickets: online; a MonsterHaus presentation.
- Location: Chain Yard Urban Cidery & Taproom, 2606 Agricola Street
- 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- FREEQ Atlantique DJ Collective Launch Party
- What better way to celebrate Pride than dancing with local Black, queer DJs?! We're throwing a launch party for newly formed but sorely needed FREEQ Atlantique, a DJ collective with some of the best and up and coming racialized, queer DJs in the city. Three Black, queer DJs will be spinning tunes all night long. Everyone is welcome. No bad vibes. Come join us for what promises to be an unforgettable night!
- Tickets: Starting at $17.57 (early bird).
- Location: Stillwell Brewing Company, 3670 Kempt Road
- 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- Gaga: The Funeral
- We’re not just throwing a party… we’re bringing it back to life on the dance floor. 📅 July 23 ⏰ 10PM – 2AM 🎧 DJ MIKE G 🎥 VIDEO DANCE PARTY ✨ NO COVER ✨ ⚰️ Dress Code: SEXY FUNERAL Come as your darkest fantasy. Veils, lace, black leather, glam, grief, glitter… whatever you’d wear to bury the ordinary. We mourn. We dance. We resurrect. And the cameras stay rolling all night. Details online.
- Location: RumoursHFX, 1668 Lower Water Street
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