2023 Virtual Pride event calendar
A resource for queer people who are celebrating Pride from the safety and accessibility of their homes.
Virtual Pride 2023 has ended for the year, and the organizers are taking a well-deserved break. Thank you everybody who participated! The event description, calendar, and history will remain on this page for reference and posterity. You can reach the organizers via our contact form.
Let’s be honest: many Pride events have an accessibility problem.
Sign language interpretation is spotty, ramps and adequate rolling space are rare, crowds are overstimulating, COVID precautions have been cast aside, allergens such as food, alcohol, and fragrance are everywhere… and for some sick and disabled queer people, there are simply no measures other than virtual options that would make event attendance accessible, inclusive, or safe.
Disabled, sick, isolated, and closeted queer people deserve safe access to community celebrations, so the Bi Pan Library has partnered with a friend of the library, Emi, to gather as many virtual Pride events as possible into one calendar. In the embedded calendar below (or the plain text list) you can read about different events and add them to your Gcal or iCal.
You can help us grow this resource! Whether you’re throwing a virtual gathering yourself or hear about one through the grapevine, you can submit an event via this form. The Bi Pan Library is a US-based organization, so most of the calendar events so far as also US-based — but we would love to open this up! Please submit events in any time zone and any language. You get more information about event inclusion on the form itself.
PLEASE NOTE
- Time zone: The calendar below is set to Pacific Standard Time. If you add an event to your personal Gcal or iCal, it should convert to your own time zone. Please remember that adding events to your personal calendar does not automatically register you for the events, and more steps may be required to ensure you a seat.
- Registration: Many of these events are hosted on Zoom and require prior registration, so make sure to click through to the event homepage before the day of the event to register. Responding to the Google Events below or adding them to your calendar does NOT register you for these events. Carefully follow the instructions on each event’s homepage.
- Accessibility: The accessibility of each event does vary, as they are all facilitated by different people and organizations. We have highlighted in the event descriptions any accessibility measures the facilitators made public, and included their contact information when possible.
- Safety: Unless noted otherwise, the Bi Pan Library is not involved in the planning or execution of the events listed on the Virtual Pride calendar. While these events are vetted to the best of our ability, it is important to practice basic internet safety and consider your own privacy when participating in online events.
Jump to plain text list of events
You can help us grow this resource! Whether you’re throwing a virtual gathering yourself or hear about one through the grapevine, you can submit an event via this form. The Bi Pan Library is a US-based organization, so most of the calendar events so far as also US-based — but we would love to open this up! Please submit events in any time zone and any language. Find more information about event inclusion on the form itself.
Plain text list of events
Last updated 07/02/2023, 8:07am PST
PAST EVENTS
June 1st
- Navigating Queer Interracial Relationships (Wicked Grounds)
- Quiet Queers Craft Along (link)
- Day 1: NewFest Pride Film Festival (Newfest)
June 2nd
- Day 2: NewFest Pride Film Festival (Newfest)
- 100 Queer Poems at Manchester Poetry Library (Manchester Poetry Library)
June 3rd
- Day 3: NewFest Pride Film Festival (Newfest)
- Telling Our Stories: A Panel on Queer Visibility and Authorship (Pride and Less Prejudice)
- Gender Exploration Conversations (Still COVIDing)
- Queer & Kinky (Still COVIDing)
- Queer Chill Lounge (Still COVIDing)
- Rainbow Roundtable (Still COVIDing)
- QTBIPOC Group (Still COVIDing)
June 4th
- Day 4: NewFest Pride Film Festival (Newfest)
June 5th
- Day 5: NewFest Pride Film Festival (Newfest)
- Pride: Drag HERstory (Wake County Library)
- Drawn This Gay: LGBTQIA+ Comics and Graphic Novels Online (Lake Bluff Public Library)
- LGBTQ+ Addiction Recovery Virtual Support Group (Mountainside Treatment Center Support Groups)
June 6th
- Lesbian Love Story: Amelia Possanza with Casey McQuiston (New York Public Library)
- Book discussion: X by Davey Davis (Other Fruit Queer Book Group, Lighthouse Bookshop, Scotland)
- Discussion with “Boyslut” author Zachary Zane (American Writers Museum)
- Author Talk with Melissa Flores (New York Public Library, ages 13 to 18)
- Dis-Queer: A Disability LGBTQIA+ Support Group (accessABILITY)
- Understanding Gender Webinar (Gender Spectrum)
June 7th
- Inclusive Spaces: LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories (The Bartlett)
- Queer, Trans, and Iranian American: A Pride Month Conversation with Dr. shawndeez and Dr. Shadee Abdi (Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies)
- Dragged Wednesday: Pride Edition (House of Precise)
- Bi Survivors Support Chat (Bi Survivors Network)
- No Pride without Trans Pride Virtual Panel (Dope Black Queers)
- Burnt Out Activist Club (Rest for Resistance)
- Queer Minds mental health support group (Moyo Health & Community Services, Canada)
- Abolishing, Police, prisons, and Carceral Injustice: Abolishing as practice (No Pride in Policing Coalition)
- Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) lessons (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
June 8th
- Drag Performers Resisting Fascism, Racism and Heteromasculinity (No Pride in Policing Coalition)
- Queer Futures in Science Fiction Theatre (York Festival of Ideas)
- Pride Book Club (Brampton, Caledon, & Mississauga Libraries)
- (18+) Peer Support Group for Trans and NB SW (Wicked Grounds)
- Day 1: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 9th
- Trivia Night: Pride Month (Massachusetts Public Libraries)
- Day 2: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 10th
- F.Y.P.P (FOR YOU PRIDE PARTY) with Minus18 (Minus18, Australia)
- Queer Muslim Pride (Still COVIDing)
- Queer Chill Lounge (Still COVIDing)
- Rainbow Roundtable (Still COVIDing)
- QTBIPOC Group (Still COVIDing)
- How to Make Screen Reader Zines (link)
- Day 3: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 11th
- Bi+ Crafternoon (Toronto Bi Net)
- We’re Still Here: Pride Edition (link)
- Release & Restore Yoga Class (Cultivate, Queride)
- QTPoC Meditation: Movement Practice (Rest for Resistance)
- Queer Peer Review for Birthworkers & Holostic Practitioners (Willbliss Kim)
- Day 4: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 12th
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Film Screenings (Disco Riot)
- Rainbow Lounge (LGBT Health & Wellbeing, Scotland)
- Community Geekout: Bataireacht History & Present (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Day 5: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 13th
- NAWP: A Pride & Poetry Celebration (ELJ Editions)
- Feeling Queer: Rage (Middle Church)
- Spirituality of the Gender Expansive Body (DignityUSA)
- Creating and Building Abolitionist Futures (No Pride in Policing Coalition)
- Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health (Invisible Histories Project)
- Day 6: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 14th
- Arts & Crafts (The Cutlery Drawer)
- [POSTPONED] Road to Pride: Exploring the meaning of Pride (Centre for Equity and Inclusion)
- Drag: A Deep Dive on Slayage (Disco Riot)
- Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) lessons (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Burnt Out Activist Club (Rest for Resistance)
- Day 7: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 15th
- Queer characters with chronic conditions (Knee Brace Press)
- Virtual Teen Comics Chat: Comics for LGBTQ+ Pride Month (New York Public Library)
- Pride Zine Party (Family Service Toronto & David Kelley Services)
- Sex Work, Harm Reduction, Encampment Support: Abolition Solidarities (No Pride in Policing Coalition)
- Can’t Cancel Pride 2023 (iHeartRadio)
- So, You Want to Start a Munch! (Wicked Grounds, 18+)
- Day 8: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 17th
- Queer Chill Lounge (Still COVIDing)
- Rainbow Roundtable (Still COVIDing)
- QTBIPOC Group (Still COVIDing)
- Homo-Coming: Collective Zine Making (Invisible Histories Project)
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Workshop: Imaginary Bodies (Disco Riot)
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Workshop: Pelvic Floor Awareness (Disco Riot)
- Day 9: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 18th
- Day 1: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Release & Restore Yoga Class (Cultivate, Queride)
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Workshop: giggles n wiggles (Disco Riot)
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Workshop: jazz disco (Disco Riot)
- Queer Mvmnt Fest Workshop: Contemporary Ballet (Disco Riot)
- Day 10: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 19th
- Knocking Myself Up, with Michelle Tea (Multnomah County Library)
- Day 2: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Care Writes: Exploring the Labor of Love (Octavia’s Chariot @ SAD Fair)
- Day 11: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 20th
- Don’t Tell My Mother! w/ Nikki Levy, Vico Ortiz, Liv Hewson, Chris Renfro, and Ever Mainard (Dynasty Typewriter)
- Building Community Defense (Firestorm Books & Coffee)
- Sexuality and the Harlem Renaissance (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
- Queer Footprints: An Evening with Dan Glass (Lighthouse Bookshop)
- Feeling Queer: Tenderness (Middle Church)
- Qi Gong Conditioning for Bataireacht (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Disabled Dance Aesthetics: What Does Your Illegibility Demand? (Rafi Ruffino Darrow @ SADFair)
- Day 3: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Day 12: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 21st
- T4T 4 PnP – Community Dialogue (Health Initiative for Men)
- The Kids Are Alright (Invisible Histories Project)
- Virtual QTPOC Pride Celebration (Perverts of Color)
- Art and Poetry at the End of the World (No Pride in Policing Coalition)
- Burnt Out Activist Club (Rest for Resistance)
- Day 4: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Mobility Aid Decorating Party (Sad Clown Club @ SAD Fair)
- Bi Survivors Support Chat (Bi Survivors Network)
- Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) lessons (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Day 13: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 22nd
- Online Film Discussion: The World to Come (New York Public Library)
- Art for Mutual Aid and Liberation (Lala Novali @ SADFair)
- Discussion with “You Need To Chill” author Juno Dawson (American Writers Museum)
- Peer Support Group for Trans and NB SW (Wicked Grounds, 18+)
- Day 5: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Day 14: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 23rd
- Day 1: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Pride Our Way Adaptive Yoga (Upgrade Accessibility)
- Cripping Sacred – A Creative Ritual Space for Sick and Disabled QTBIPOC (Thunder X @ SADFair)
- Day 6: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Pride Our Way (Upgrade Accessibility)
- Queer Crip Chillout (The Cutlery Drawer)
- Day 15: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 24th
- Day 2: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Day 7: Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair (SAD Fair)
- Pride Our Way Drag Show (Upgrade Accessibility)
- sensi.skins Fashion Show-and-Tell (thai Lu @ SAD Fair)
- Queer Chill Lounge (Still COVIDing)
- Rainbow Roundtable (Still COVIDing)
- QTBIPOC Group (Still COVIDing)
- Day 16: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 25th
- A Gathering of Black/African Bisexual+ Men (Black Lotus Project – Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality)
- Buddy Up! A Virtual Bataireacht Workshop for You and a Friend (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Day 3: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Day 17: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 26th
- LGBTQ+ Addiction Recovery Virtual Support Group (Mountainside Treatment Center Support Groups)
- Polyamory 101 (Wicked Grounds, 18+)
- Day 18: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 27th
- Abolitionist Queer Strategies (Firestorm Books & Coffee)
- Make It Yours: Embodying Your Strap-On with Sinclair Sexsmith (Wicked Grounds)
- Feeling Queer: Joy (Middle Church)
- Transgender Inclusion: What It Means, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do (DignityUSA)
- Day 4: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Day 19: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 28th
- Day 5: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Burnt Out Activist Club (Rest for Resistance)
- Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) lessons (Strange Fox Fighting Arts)
- Day 20: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 29th
- QTPoC Meditation: Stillness Practice (Rest for Resistance)
- Chat with the Author of Pink Triangle Legacies (link)
- Rainbow Room 2023: LGBTQ+ Space for 18-25 year olds (Rainbow Mind)
- Day 6: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Day 21: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)
June 30th
- Culture Club (The Cutlery Drawer)
- Day 7: International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project)
- Day 22: Gilbert Baker Film Festival (link)