Presenting QUEERFEST, a celebration of local queer art, history, and culture. Silver Lake businesses, bars, and venues will embrace their queer histories and play host to installations, screenings, performances, and parties, culminating in a neighborhood wide event featuring live performances, local queer artists and vendors, a park installation, and a stage adjacent to the historic site of The Black Cat Tavern, where early LGBTQ demonstrations occurred.
QUEERFEST will be free for the public, but requires funding to pay for city fees, artists, performances, and operating costs. This is where YOU come in. If you believe this is a festival we need for our community, please consider donating at any level.
Every bit helps!
QUEERFEST is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program.
Donations to QUEERFEST are tax deductible.
The Pasadena Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) organization.
“ queer ”
For us, QUEER is not a label. It’s a conversation. In the past it’s been used as a pejorative, a liberating term for activists, an academic point-of-view, and a commercial marketing tool. For some, the word simultaneously builds up and tears down boundaries of identity — the non-specificity of the word can be liberating. Our festival is inclusive of all who identify with the word queer, regardless of gender or sexuality.
Who we are.
We are artists, musicians, creators, promoters, academics, curators, historians, and members of the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles.
We are pushing culture forward, we are shifting paradigms, we are blurring the lines of what is normal and what is queer.
Presenting QUEERFEST, a celebration of local queer art, history, and culture. Silver Lake businesses, bars, and venues will embrace their queer histories and play host to installations, screenings, performances, and parties, culminating in a neighborhood wide event featuring live performances, local queer artists and vendors, a park installation, and a stage adjacent to the historic site of The Black Cat Tavern, where early LGBTQ demonstrations occurred.
QUEERFEST will be free for the public, but requires funding to pay for city fees, artists, performances, and operating costs. This is where YOU come in. If you believe this is a festival we need for our community, please consider donating at any level.
Every bit helps!
QUEERFEST is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program.
Donations to QUEERFEST aretax deductible.
The Pasadena Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) organization.
