With the 2026 Brisbane Pride Festival Guide hitting the streets, it’s time to start planning for Queensland’s biggest LGBTQIA+ celebration. Have you cleared your calendar?
The 32-page guide is the best way to stay informed as we gear up to celebrate over 35 years of pride.
Mr Queensland Leather 2025, Jacob, is part of the crew delivering the official 2026 Brisbane Pride Festival Guide this week.
“It’s amazing seeing people’s faces light up as we drop off the pride guides,” Jacob said. “It’s a stellar line-up with something for everyone. Come out and enjoy Meanjin’s united colours of pride!”
Grab your copy of the 2026 Brisbane Pride Guide at Come to DaddyImage: Supplied
Brisbane Pride Festival serves as a platform for celebration, protest, and community connection for Queensland’s LGBTQIA+SB communities.
For more than a month, the community will come together in celebration and solidarity. Whether on the dancefloor, in a coffee house, at a performance or in a park.
So get your calendar out. It’s time to start planning.
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Join the Brisbane Pride launch at the Brunswick Hotel
Brisbane Pride will host its annual Brisbane Pride Festival Launch Party on Saturday, September 26 at the Brunswick Hotel in New Farm.
The Brisbane Pride Festival Launch celebrates several weeks of events that highlight the rich diversity, history, creativity and resilience of Queensland’s LGBTQIA+ communities.
It’s free to attend, so be sure to come down from 6 pm to 8 pm and kick off Pride with a bang.
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But why wait till then to celebrate Pride, with events already kicking off in celebration of our communities.
Annual exhibition Queer Here 2026 celebrates the stories, visions and talents of queer creatives.
This finalist exhibition brings together over twenty queer artists from Brisbane/Meanjin who engage across mediums of photography, painting, drawing, digital media and installation.
You can check it out right now or join a special celebration on September 10 at QCAD Galleries, at Griffith University Brisbane City (Southbank) campus.
Brisbane Leather Week is already underway with a host of events. Plus, FiredUp Events and Queensland Leather Pride are excited to bring you the AFTERBURN Play Party.
Want to dance, play, or just burn off some energy? Come join the fun at the newly renovated DEN in Fortitude Valley
And on September 20, Making the Leap will teach you self-publishing basics at Lost Souls / Netherworld with author Jodie Lane.
Let them walk you through the process step-by-step.
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There’s no such thing as too much Pride
In a landmark moment for Queensland’s LGBTQIA+ community, this year’s Pride Rally, March and Fair Day will return to New Farm.
Kicking off Pride Day is the annual Brisbane Pride Rally and March, followed by the much-anticipated Pride Fair Day.
The Rally will assemble at the corner of Ann and Brunswick Streets from 9 am for speeches, before the March sets off towards New Farm Park at 10 am.
It’s free to join the Rally, but if you’re marching in a group of five or more, Brisbane Pride would like you to fill in a registration form to ease logistical planning.
Brisbane Pride Rally, March and Fair Day combine with the Melt River Pride Parade and Opening Night PartyImages Supplied
Brisbane Pride Fair Day remains Queensland’s largest LGBTQIA+ event, and the third largest of its kind in Australia.
Fair Day is ticketed, and you can grab your ticket now to save lining up on the day. Stall registration is also open; to find out more, check out the Brisbane Pride website.
For the first time, the events will fall on the same day as Melt Festival‘s River Pride Parade and Melt Opening Night Party at Brisbane Powerhouse.
Together, these events will turn Saturday, October 24 into an extraordinary celebration of diversity, inclusion, joy and community.
‘Pride has never been just one day, or one event’
This year’s program theme is United Colours of Pride.
Brisbane Pride President James McCarthy said the theme sets the tone for a festival defined by visibility, celebration and solidarity.
“Pride has never been just one day, or one event,” McCarthy said. “It’s the sum of everything our community has fought for, and everything we still have ahead of us.”
“This year, sharing the day with Melt Festival feels significant. It’s a reminder that our celebrations are stronger when we stand together, and that Brisbane’s queer community is woven through every part of this city’s cultural life, not set apart from it.”
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“United Colours of Pride is about recognising that every person who walks in that march, every stallholder at Fair Day, every voice at the rally, brings a different story — different struggles, different joys, different histories.
“That’s the truth this festival exists to tell. That unity was never about sameness; it’s about choosing each other, again and again, in all our colour and complexity.”
Brisbane Pride Festival runs from September 26 to October 31.
Grab your copy of the official guide from your favourite queer venue or check out our digital version.
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