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Greetings, Dieselfunkateers! Conventions of color, gender, and inclusion are everywhere! Over last weekend with the "Postponement till Further Notice" from Universal FanCon, the critical noise got quite heavy. But rising from that trauma was a defiance against the perception that people of color, women, and LGBTQ groups can't make things happen. For every one event […]
So I absolutely had to do Flame Con, a LGBTQ+ comic con that just had its third year, held at the Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn.Last year, many of my friends went to Flame Con and had a lot of fun, leaving me with a whole weekend of jealousy I was determined to do it this[...]
Love Is Love would go one to win the 2017 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.So with the one year anniversary of the comic's planning and publication quickly approaching, Geeks OUT's Flame Con 2017 hosted a panel looking-back on how the project came about, the impact it had and where efforts go from here Moderated by[...]
So good things do happen in threes, as Geeks OUT presented the third edition of Flame Con! The World’s Largest Queer Comic Con this past weekend at The Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in NYC The two-day comics, arts, and entertainment expo was created as a way of highlighting creators and celebrities from all corners of the LGBTQ geek pop[...]
Geeks OUT presented the third edition of Flame Con! The World’s Largest Queer Comic Con this past weekend at The Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in NYC, highlighting creators and celebrities from all corners of the LGBTQ geek pop culture spectrum And what's a con without some amazing cosplay?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkWuZF23igBleeding Cool was lucky enough to make it out to Brooklyn for[...]
It would appear that good things happen in threes, too, as Geeks OUT presented the third edition of Flame Con! The World's Largest Queer Comic Con this weekend at The Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in NYC The two-day comics, arts, and entertainment expo was created as a way of highlighting creators and celebrities from all corners of[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNFi32vwOEThe second annual Flame Con, the Brooklyn-based LGBTQ comic convention is expanding from one day to two next year, taking August 20th and 21st at a larger venue at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott.The first show this June was the largest queerfocused pop culture expo ever held in New York as over a hundred comic creators and media stars showed off[...]
