29 May 2026
Qtopia Sydney gets ready to paint the Oxford Street precinct purple with pride in PRIDE FEST
Qtopia Sydney is thrilled to announce the line-up of Pride Fest 2026, Sydney’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival. 2026 will showcase the festival’s biggest program yet, featuring over 300 events to celebrate International Pride Month from 1st to 30th June 2026, in a big, bold and beautiful celebration of community, culture and conversation.
With something for absolutely everyone, the 2026 program will feature the very best of queer theatre, drag, comedy, cabaret, book launches, panel discussions, workshops, fitness classes, dance, film, parties, restaurant activations, and more. And for the first time ever, this year’s festival will expand outside the walls of Qtopia Sydney, to take over the entire Oxford Street precinct in one epic display of pride.
With events staggered across the Oxford Street Precinct including Qtopia Sydney’s The Loading Dock Theatre, The BWYASSS Substation, The Eternity Playhouse, Ginger’s at the Oxford, Universal Upstairs and Downstairs, and more, the precinct is sure to be painted purple throughout the entire month of June.
Kicking off the festival in style is the inaugural Pride Fest Gala on 2 June, promising a stellar night of performances to showcase the very best of the jam-packed festival that has something for everyone.
The festival will feature two incredible headliners; including the award-winning cabaret sensation Skank Sinatra in The Name on Everybody’s Lips, a BRAND-NEW glittering cabaret from 10th to 14th June, and Kala Gare and Victoria Falconer’s: Juicy Riot, with the award-winning theatre babes, prolific music makers & notorious bisexuals throwing a high-femme-fronted, queer variety extravaganza on 29th June.
Festival highlights will also include dazzling performances like: Homogrown, Dykes on Bikes: An Origin Story, Jess Fuchs: Feral, Still Proud: Honouring the 78ers, Saddle Club Line Dancing, Nails The Musical: In Concert, Haus of Dy-lan and many more.
Adding to the colossal list of incredible acts, this year’s inaugural offerings include Pride Fest: Intersections, a vibrant celebration of cultural diversity through an intersectional Queer lens, Pride Fest: New Voices, an opportunity to showcase works in development and Fit N’ Proud (sponsored by Bupa), a dynamic program of sport, fitness and dance events activating venues around the Oxford Street precinct.
Festival Director Carly Fisher said, “Pride Fest is a powerful reminder of what happens when community comes together with purpose. This year's growth has been driven by the community and we couldn't be more proud to welcome new partners on board to help us grow this into an annual signature event on Oxford Street. Pride Fest is really about the artists who share their stories, the communities who show up and the allies who stand up, and we couldn’t be more proud”.
Qtopia Sydney are proud to announce the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW, as their Strategic Sponsors for this festival.
To access the entire festival program please visit: https://www.qtopiasydney.com.au/pride-fest/
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NOTES FOR EDITORS:
Qtopia Sydney is the largest cultural centre for queer history and culture in the world, with four different buildings within the campus, housed in the heritage-listed former Darlinghurst Police Station.
The centre opened in 2024 with 18 exhibitions, as a place to share the stories of the Queer community in Australia — past, present and future. As storytellers, Qtopia Sydney bring LGBTQIA+ histories out of the sidelines and into the light — from breakthroughs in medicine and law to art, activism and everyday life. These are stories of courage, contribution and resilience that deserve to be heard. Qtopia Sydney is also home to two performance venues and offers a rich program of events and performances.