Queer Porn Film Festival to Debut in NYC This April

BROOKLYN, NY—The first ever Queer Porn Film Festival will take place April 19 in Brooklyn, with porn makers Stoya, Jiz Lee, Courtney Trouble, April Flores, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Chelsea Poe, and Papi Coxxx all confirmed as hosts, panelists and presenters. More info can be found here. Tickets and passes are available now. The film festival will highlight obscure underground smut, important moments in queer smut history, established adult director master works, obscene feminist manifestos, lost footage, experiments, glossy hollywood crossover hits, and even a few world premieres, including Stoya’s Graphic Depictions. Curated as a visual guide to the scope of the queer erotic movement and its brightest stars, films will be screened in the form of one epic mix tape, with no film lasting longer than 15 minutes. The festival kick-off is Porn and Pancakes, featuring a delightful secret cafe brunch paired with only the most delicious queer adult cinema, including Stoya’s world premiere of Graphic Depictions, starring Jiz Lee, also in attendance. Workshops and panels include a performer panel, skill shares, political discussions, and director Q&As with confirmed guests Papi Coxxx and April Flores, a two-time AVN performer of the year award winner, who is also in town to premiere a scene from her directorial debut with Fat Girl Fantasies. The after party will feature a live public porn shoot starring queer favorites Courtney Trouble and Tobi Hill-Meyer, where the viewers become the filmmakers, and a queer porn open mic where event goers can screen their own short adult films, with host Chelsea Poe and some yet-to-be-announced guest gaymous DJs. The Queer Porn Film Festival has been built on values centering around trans-feminism, accessibility, intentionality and community based social justice. The events and films shown will reflect that foundation through careful curation and thoughtful party planning in the hope this event serves as a starting point for others to get involved in queer feminist art and sex positive community. To inquire about ticket sales, ad space, donations, volunteering, attending, media coverage or anything else, send an e-mail to queerpornfilmfestival@gmail.com. Profits will be donated to the sex worker run health and community organizing project PERSI.