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Some locals claim that Montreal has only two seasons: winter and festivals, which means that all spring, summer, and autumn, Montreal is nothing less than an ongoing festival of fun.

If you look at a map of Montreal, you’ll notice that the city is shaped like a pair of lips and it’s fitting that the Tourism Montreal logo, which visitors see all over the city, replaces the O in Montreal with a red-lipsticked kiss.

There are rain dances and sun dances and dances of sheer exultation - and every kind of dance was on display for Divers/Cité’s 20th birthday party in Vieux Montreal.

Founded in 1993 on the principles of diversity, solidarity, and openness, Divers/Cité is one of the most beloved of Montreal’s forty annual festivals, a multi-day LGBT music and arts festival with more than fifty hours of free music and performance.

On Monday, Sept. 19, "Dancing With the Stars" will feature its first transgender contestant, one of two openly LGBT contestants on season 13.

The Rainbow Dance Festival, which starts on September 16 at the Riviera Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, provides dance workshops, shows and evening parties in a fun and family-friendly environment for the LGBTQ community.

Pink Monday is when 50,000 gays party at Düsseldorf’s "Biggest Fun Fair on the Rhine," turning the city’s 21-year-old, nine-day outdoor spectacle into the color of cotton candy.

American Ballet Theatre dancers promised pirouettes - not politics - during the troupe’s historic visit to Cuba this week, the first by the New York-based company since shortly after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.

Imagine a beach packed with four thousand revelers dressed in white as the sun sets behind Manhattan’s glittering skyline while fireworks explode overhead.

Every summer, Montréal’s Divers/Cité, the weeklong music and arts festival, attracts tens of thousands of celebrants from all over the globe for the largest free outdoor dance event in North America. Check out all the happy people!