Congratulations again to the 2026 Inside Out Award winners! We’re also thrilled to be announcing our Audience Choice Award winners I Come Home for Best Narrative Feature, Heals for Best Documentary Feature, and Tender Chosen for Best Short. 💐
Read the full press release on Playback 🫧
Some moments from our Closing Night Gala screening of Heals & the Closing Night After Party ❤️🔥
Photography by @nessdevos
Happy Pride Canada! 🌈 Thanks to our friends at @penguinrandomca we’re giving away seven (7) books to one lucky winner in celebration of Pride Month! The winner will receive seven titles published by Penguin Random House Canada, including:
⭐ The Cure for Drowning, Loghan Paylor
⭐ The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, Eddy Boudel Tan
⭐ The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Boxset, Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon
⭐ Three Parties, Ziyad Saadi
⭐ A Sweet Sting of Salt, Rose Sutherland
⭐ I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, Maurice Vellekoop
⭐️ All the Parts We Exile, Roza Nozari
Swipe through to learn more about the titles and to add them to your TBR!
How to enter:
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💌 Follow @insideoutfestival & @penguinrandomca
💌 Tag a friend in the comments below & comment your favourite queer author or book ❤️
This giveaway is open to all residents located in Canada. Please note that we cannot ship to a P.O. Box.
Giveaway will close on Friday, June 19 at 12PM ET and the winner will be DM’ed on Instagram.
#InsideOut26 marks our Front of House Manager Debbie Read’s 30th year at Inside Out. We’re so incredibly grateful for Debbie and everything she does. A big heartfelt thank you to Debbie for 30 wonderful years of memories and many more to come! 💗💐
Photography by @callmealbs
From the best night out ❤️🔥 The Local Heroes screening at #InsideOut26
Thank you to our Local Heroes sponsors: @blueantmedia @telefilm_canada @cmf.fmc @popmusicto @goodfriendsmarket @nowboarding.travel @ballooms_toronto 💗
Photography by @callmealbs
