Falls short: Only lists events ticketing with Eventbrite.
Also offered: Free & Paid Ticketing
Falls short: 3.7% + $1.79
Also offered: Upsells and Add-ons
Falls short: Weekly Payouts
Falls short: Recommends OTHER events on your event page.
Falls short: Just some corporation
Falls short: No fundraising awareness features
Falls short: Nope
Falls short: Paid placements only. Listing as "related event"
Queer Calendar
Advantage: For all the Rainbow LGBTQ+ people
Advantage: Lists EVERY publicly promoted LGBTQ+ event. Whether you ticket with us or not.
Also offered: Free & Paid Ticketing
Advantage: 3.5% + $1.50 (a bit less)
Also offered: Upsells and Add-ons
Advantage: Instant Payout via Stripe
Advantage: Only promotes your current and upcoming events.
Advantage: Keeps dollars in our community
Advantage: Add Beneficiaries for fundraisers
Advantage: Co-host and cross-promote
Advantage: Hosts that ticket on QC get preferred placement.
Eventbrite… but GAY
Queer Calendar is built for LGBTQ+ event hosts to bring out our community with world-class marketing and ticketing features for in-person and online events.
Ticketing supports our mission to make ALL publicly promoted LGBTQ+ events easily discoverable. Hosts who use Queer Calendar to ticket their paid or RSVP free events get preferred placement.
Preferred placements push your event listing to the top of search results. Want even more premium placement? You can level up by Featuring your event.
Safety and Privacy
Reveal your event location after RSVP or Ticket Purchase.
Secret location uses your event zip code to place your event on the map.
Queer Calendar never sees credit card information.
All payments are transacted inside of Stripe.
Team Access is Easy
Provide everyone on your team with their own login and permissions setting. Managers, members, and owners — all from one dashboard.
Discovery Features
Find All Your Events
Queer Calendar makes it easy to find just the kind of event you are looking for. Filter by date, interest, identity, and location.
Bring Your Own Link (BYOL)
Already ticketing elsewhere? List your event on Queer Calendar and drop your external booking link. We care about the community finding the space, not just who processes the payment.
Only discoverable on Instagram or Facebook?
Now you have a website listing once you add your event to Queer Calendar. Use your QC Host page as your “link in bio.”
Yes! A number of our hosts have said they find Queer Calendar easier to use than Eventbrite. We have a team of Calendar Fairies ready to help you. You can book a call anytime.
Yes! You'll be able to export your attendee list whenever you like. Attendees will also be able to opt-in to future marketing emails so you are compliant with CAN-SPAM / GDPR best practices.
Yes. Attendees will receive pre-event reminders, day-of logistics messages, and post-event follow-ups. You can segment messages by ticket type, order status, attended vs no-show.
Queer Calendar is a groundbreaking LGBTQ+ event discovery platform designed to help queer people find events in their local communities, online, and around the world. We believe that finding each other in-person and online is massively important — to combat isolation, build our political power, support our businesses and event organizers, and enjoy being free and Queer. We expect to have 15,000–20,000 LGBTQ+ event hosts on the platform by the end of 2026.
For ticketed events, a processing fee of 3.5% + $1.50 per ticket is added to paid orders. You can choose to have fees paid by attendees, or absorb the cost. Free / RSVP events do not incur any fees.
