Our annual collection of what this great city has to offer, this year’s Local Heroes brings us a wide assortment of queer treats that include ballroom, bicycling, textile vaginas, and a carrot.

A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city’s underground Kiki Ballroom scene.

On a long summer’s day in Toronto, a young woman cycles between increasingly intimate encounters but remains trapped in a pattern of insatiable longing.

Working at a drag bar, Alex is immersed and inspired by the wondrous self-expression of the drag queens as they perform on the neon-lit stage.

A pulsating world of bug-eyed lesbian sasquatches and vaginal caves is created from reclaimed textiles.

Kris, struggling with the surprise death of an ex-lover, sidesteps her girlfriend’s post-gin and tonic advances and inadvertently reveals too much.

An argument over a film they just watched spirals into real life drama between a couple.

Terminally in Love is a first-person journey through the mind of Quinn, a neurotic stoner struggling to get over her ex-girlfriend Allie as she slips from reality into a stream of heroic fantasies, wistful memories, and cringeworthy dreams.

Everybody wants to reach Carrot, but he doesn’t seem carrot all.