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52 upcoming events Aug 2026 – Apr 2027
When All Today Tomorrow This week This month
Aug · 16 Sep · 44 Oct · 6 Nov · 6 Apr 27 · 2
What All Drag 17 Community 15 Festival 9 Comedy 9 Live Show 8 Pride 8
+ 6 more
Club Night 3 Film Screening 2 Women / Sapphic 2 Party 1 Cabaret 1 Free Entry 1

This weekend

Fri · 3:00 PM Sober Game Night Sat · 7:00 AM Sip & Social: Coffee Hour Sat · 8:00 AM Rendezvous: August 2026 Sat 3rd Annual Community Service Award Brunch

Friday, Aug 21 Today

1 event
21 AUG
3:00 PM

Sober Game Night

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Community
Free entry

Saturday, Aug 22 Tomorrow

3 events
22 AUG
7:00 AM

Sip & Social: Coffee Hour

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Community
Free entry
22 AUG
8:00 AM

Rendezvous: August 2026

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Club Night
22 AUG

3rd Annual Community Service Award Brunch

Community
Free entry

Sunday, Aug 23

1 event
23 AUG
6:00 AM

Author Event: Jonathan Graziano

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Monday, Aug 24

1 event
24 AUG

Fiber Arts Club

Community
Free entry

Wednesday, Aug 26

2 events
Q
26 AUG
6:00 PM

Queer Minds

Community
Free entry
26 AUG
All day

Rochester Black Pride 2026

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Pride

Thursday, Aug 27

1 event
27 AUG
7:30 AM

GCV&M Kids Free Days: Storytelling with Jonathan Graziano & Milton

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Free Entry
Free entry

Friday, Aug 28 Friday night

1 event
28 AUG
5:00 AM

NYS Fair Pride Day 2026

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Pride

Saturday, Aug 29 Saturday

2 events
29 AUG
3:00 PM

Tig Notaro: Out of Nowhere Tour

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Live Show Comedy
29 AUG

Community Drop-in: August 2026

Community
Free entry

Wednesday, Sep 2

2 events
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2 SEP
6:00 PM
Online

LGBTQIA Virtual Open Peerled Grief Support - MyGriefAngels.org

Free entry
G
2 SEP
6:00 PM
Online

Grief Support LGBTQ - Betterhelp.com: "One of the Best Online Grief Support Group"

Community
Free entry

Friday, Sep 4 Friday night

1 event
4 SEP

Trans Pride Fest

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Pride Festival
Free entry

Sunday, Sep 6

1 event
6 SEP
9:00 AM

TARA Reunion 2026

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Tuesday, Sep 8

1 event
8 SEP
2:00 PM

Arts & Crafts Club

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Community
Free entry

Wednesday, Sep 9

1 event
9 SEP
2:05 PM

Rochester Red Wings Pride Night 2026

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Pride
$9

Thursday, Sep 10

1 event
T
10 SEP
7:30 PM

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow - LGBTQIA+ Book Crew Chat

Free entry

Saturday, Sep 12 Saturday

1 event
12 SEP
9:00 AM

Pop-Up Pride: Day at the Orchard (Sep. 2026)

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Pride

Monday, Sep 14

4 events
14 SEP
All day

Bennie Jaye: “Polishing My Craft” – Songs Set to Poems by Martha Kelch

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Free entry
14 SEP
All day

MASS DRAG: How the Church Blessed Gay Couples — Again

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Drag Comedy
$23
14 SEP
All day

Stand Up for Drag

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Drag Live Show
$20
14 SEP
All day

Blackout Bingo

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Drag Club Night
$25

Tuesday, Sep 15

4 events
15 SEP
2:00 PM

Rainbow Reading Club: YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN

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Free entry
15 SEP
All day

Comedy Is A Drag

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Drag Comedy
$25
15 SEP
All day

Baby Jane, Baby Jane

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$18
15 SEP
All day

Ruby’s High School Reunion

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Drag
$15

Wednesday, Sep 16

1 event
16 SEP
2:30 PM

2026 LGBTQIA+ Archival Film Series: WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY

rochester.lgbt
Pride
Free entry

Friday, Sep 18 Friday night

3 events
18 SEP
All day

DRAGMASTER

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$20
18 SEP
All day

Chloe Corcoran: “I Don’t Get It…”

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$20
18 SEP

Madelein Murphy: “Lesbian American Princess”

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Festival Comedy
$20

Saturday, Sep 19 Saturday

3 events
19 SEP
3:30 PM

La Diva de L’Empire

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Drag Live Show
$15
19 SEP
4:00 PM

Carmen Adore’s Drag Roulette ALL STARS

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Drag Film Screening
$10
19 SEP
All day

Penny Sterling: “Have I ever told you about…?”

rochester.lgbt
$20

Sunday, Sep 20

1 event
20 SEP
4:00 AM

Ice Cream Sundays: VICS

rochester.lgbt
Community

Tuesday, Sep 22

2 events
22 SEP
4:00 PM

Film Screening: HAIRSPRAY (1988)

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Party Film Screening
22 SEP
All day

Warhol: Bullet Karma

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Live Show

Wednesday, Sep 23

1 event
23 SEP
All day

The First Jew in Canada

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Thursday, Sep 24

1 event
24 SEP
1:30 PM

ImageOut Fall Festival Fair & Open House

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Festival

Friday, Sep 25 Friday night

1 event
25 SEP
4:00 PM

Et al. – Queerky Science on the Fringe

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Saturday, Sep 26 Saturday

1 event
26 SEP
12:45 PM

Thomas Warfield: “Let the Music Heal You”

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Wednesday, Sep 30

1 event
30 SEP
2:30 PM

Visiting Authors Series: Alex Sanchez – RAINBOW BOYS 25th Anniversary

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Thursday, Oct 1

1 event
1 OCT
3:30 PM

ImageOut at the Theatre Night: HAIRSPRAY

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Live Show

Wednesday, Oct 7

1 event
7 OCT
All day

ImageOut: Rochester LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Fall)

Festival

Friday, Oct 9 Friday night

1 event
9 OCT

Rochester Queer Arts Festival (RQAF)

Festival
Free entry
November 2026 · 5 events open ▸
Thu 12 A Drag Queen Christmas › Thu 12 A Drag Queen Christmas - Rochester › Sat 14 Pop-Up Pride: Day at the Museum: Holiday Edition (Nov. 2026) › Tue 17 Rainbow Reading Club: HEATED RIVALRY › Wed 18 2026 LGBTQIA+ Archival Film Series: SATURDAY CHURCH ›
April 2027 · 1 event open ▸
Sat 3 RuPaul's Drag Race (Ages 21 & Over) ›

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