Celebrating Trans and Queer Joy is an uplifting gathering that honors the vibrancy, resilience, and brilliance of trans and queer communities. This event is about more than celebration—it’s about fostering belonging, protecting human rights, creating visibility, and inspiring ongoing advocacy and education for equity and inclusion.

The theme for 2025 is Trans Rights, Bright Futures.

The event features:

• Celeste Trianon – Keynote Speaker
• Entertainment
• Styling Booth: Hair and makeup professionals providing mini-makeovers
• Partner Booths
• Food and beverages

Advocacy Canada is proud to host this annual event, bringing together community members, allies, and organizations in a space of joy, solidarity, and empowerment.

RSVP Here – Admission will be by donation, with no one turned away for lack of funds.

About the Keynote Speaker

Celeste Trianon is a transfeminine jurist and activist, living on unceded land traditionally in the custody of the Kanien’kehá:ka (also known as Montréal, Québec). She holds a Quebec civil law degree from Université de Montréal and a Canadian common law degree from York University – Osgoode Hall Law School.

Celeste will be speaking on how trans youth and young adults have reshaped trans activism across the country, how we’re fighting back against anti-trans bills all across Canada, and how we’re rebuilding communities everywhere.

The founder of her own legal clinic, Celeste offers pro-bono services to her community, having helped over a thousand trans people in multiple jurisdictions access legal name and gender changes. A public speaker and prominent figure in trans activism and trans law in Canada, her specialties are the intersections between trans people and the law, anti-trans hate in Canada, as well as trans social movements as a whole.

A front-line activist that you won’t miss at local trans rights protests (or in the media), Celeste dreams of a world in which “justice” isn’t a mere theoretical ideal, but instead something that can be felt and lived by everyone.