QFest

QFest was Houston's LGBTQ film festival, presenting features, documentaries and shorts by or about LGBTQ people along with panels and forums. It began as the Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, a multi-venue event created by DiverseWorks, Rice Cinema, Landmark Theatres and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with SWAMP as early fiscal sponsor. In 2006 it took on its own programming and a five-day format, and in 2007 it was renamed QFest; later it was a sponsored project of Aurora Picture Show. Screenings in its later years were at MFAH, Rice Cinema and Asia Society Texas Center. Organizers announced that the 25th festival, held in 2021, would be the last.

Festival · Houston · Since 1997 · Ended 2021