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Atlantic Canada has a new organization of racialized q***r DJs: FREEQ Atlantique is launching on July 23 with.. you guessed it: a DJ party:

FREEQ: Q Racialized DJs.... and a party | Wayves Magazine Halifax / Kjipuktuk • Staff • 2026-07-13 Atlantic Canada has a new organization advocating for racialized q***r DJs: FREEQ Atlantique is celebrating its debut on July 23 with, you guessed it: a DJ party. FREEQ Atlantique is the brainchild of Patricia (Patti) Kibenge, a 2nd generation Ugandan-Can...

The Halifax Pride Festival starts in six days; the official website has MANY of the events during the festival, but…
the Halifax Events Board has ALL of them -- over fifty at the moment. Every event of interest to the Q community is in one place; here it is queued up to the beginning of the Pride Festival:
1) the icon on the right gives you a clue about the event type or producer,
2) scroll backwards for events before that.

https://gay.hfxns.org/LocalEvents?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=subscriber #2026-07-16

Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: Local Events

Halifax Harbour Tours is offering Halifax Q History tours on the harbour, on their electric boat

https://wayves.ca/halifax-harbour-tour-2026?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=follower

An interview about the state of speculative fiction in Halifax from 30 years in the future has fallen through a very small time vortex into the Wayves office:

Halifax TriCon: an interview from the future | Wayves Magazine By Johana Bearden • Halifax • July 8, 2056 Dear Wayves readers: Just last week, during one of our typically Halifax city other-worldly mornings, I discovered a mysterious capsule which had apparently fallen through a time vortex!  Inside was the transcript of an interview done [Editor: to be do...

Nova Scotia’s own Allister MacDonald is revisiting the iconic role of Roger in RENT at Neptune Theatre this summer. Wayves’ James Gerus sat down for a talk:

https://wayves.ca/allister-macdonald-rent-2026-07?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-07-03

A deep dive into women’s soccer by new Wayves writer Ivy Weir AND a Wayves Magazine discount on the July 5 Pride game in Halifax:

https://wayves.ca/halifax-tides-fc-2026-07?utm_source=fb_wayves

Health services student Gene Dixon has created a portal to gender diverse / Q health care for New Brunswick:

https://wayves.ca/nb-in-nb-2026

Page1 Theatre announces its Q***r Arts Fund: three micro-grants for artists across Nova Scotia.

https://wayves.ca/page1-arts-fund-2026-06

In case you didn’t hear Rebecca Rose talking about her new book, "Amazing 2SLGBTQIA+ People in Atlantic Canada" on CBC Mainstreet this evening, here’s a dub in the Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia

https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/RebeccaRose/2026-06-18_RebeccaRose_CBCMainstreet.mp3

Dates & cities for the new play bringing Canadian q***r history - the Toronto bath house raids - to life on stage:

https://wayves.ca/333-tour-2026