Artists

  • Aguirre, Valentin (San Francisco)
    • website: www.quelaco.org
    • Valentin is the Festival Coordinator for QueLACo. QueLACo is a nonprofit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latina/o artists dedicated to promoting the arts within our diverse community. As an organization, we strive to gain voice, recognition and prominence within the larger landscape of our vibrant arts world.
  • Alencastre, Dante (Los Angeles)
    • Film Producer Director
    • Facebook: Dante Alencastre
    •  contact: droa70@msn.com
  • Anthony, Adelina
  • Arcos, Dan (San Francisco)
    • website: www.danarcos.com
    • danarcos.com is Dan Arcos’s online portfolio for professional graphic design and his artwork.
    • Arredondo, Sophia (San Diego)
  • Atkins, Robert (Cathedral City)
    • website: www.robertatkins.net writer/art historian/critic. Website provides links to projects of interest to LGBT audiences.
  • Balan, Lee (Palm Springs)
    • website: www.artantiart.com
    • contact: LBALAN@dc.rr.com
    • I aim to create art that expresses everything I perceive. New art evolves from the soup of new technology, new materials, and social upheaval. Put simply, “everything is everything.”
  • Barnard, Sarah (Los Angeles)
    • website: Queerartcity.blogspot.com
  • Biron (San Francisco)
    • website: http://www.photos-biron.com/
    • 18+ Multicultural Male Erotic Images by professional photographer exhibited in Paris and San Francisco. Photos by BIRON have also been published in 3 books by Janssen Verlag (Berlin) and in several gay magazines including OG, Trikone, blue, aK, and XY.
  • Brazell, Danielle (San Francisco)
    • website: www.dangirlendeavors.com Danielle Brazell is a performance artist, curator and educator. Her performance work incorporates text, movement and symbolic imagery to create highly visceral theatrical landscapes.
  • Cade, Cathy (Oakland)
    • website: www.cathycade.com
    • I have been a documentary photographer since 1971 specializing in lesbian and other queer community images. My early work is in black and white, have added handcolored images, and collages.
  • Carey, Scott (NSW Australia)
  • Chin, Lenore (San Francisco)
  • Clark, Phillip (San Diego)
    • Singer
  • Clarke, Carly (Pomona)
    • website: www.carly-art.webs.com
    • My art revolves around my life and friends. I love doing portraits and sending out a positive message. my friends, whether gay, straight or whatever, are the source of my inspiration.
  • Cook, Michael (Knoxville, TN)
  • Corpstein, Nichole (Sen) Jeanette (Portland)
  • Curtin, Brian (Bangkok, Thailand)
    • visual artist (painter)
  • deLora, Eric (San Francisco)
  • Detwiler, Paul (San Diego)
    • Documentary filmmaker profiling the diverse voices of LGBT experience.
  • Diaman, Nikos (San Francisco)
    • website: http://www.nikosdiaman.com
    • Art for me offers a glimpse into another reality. Above all I strive to present a fresh artistic vision.
  • Dorsey, Sean (San Francisco)
    • website: freshmeatperformance@hotmail.com
    • Trans/genderqueer choreographer and the Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions. Dorsey tours his original trans and queer-themed choreography nationally and internationally.
  • Eisenberg, Jewlia
  • Elliott, Steven (San Francisco)
  • Ford, Karen (San Jose)
  • Fritscher, Jack (San Francisco)
    • website: www.JackFritscher.com . Free site of history, gay lit, homophotography, and video-connected site by California artist Jack Fritscher, who, according to GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, is “the prolific writer who since the late sixties has helped document the gay world and the changes it has undergone.”
  • Galanter, Margit (Oakland)
    • Movement, performance, participatory experiments
    • website: www.margitg.wordpress.com
  • Gay Mafia Comedy Group (Los Angeles)
  • Gomez, Jewelle (San Francisco)
    • website: www.jewellegomez.com
    • Artist and activist, Jewelle Gomez has published 7 books including the double Lambda Award-winning novel: The Gilda Stories. She has lectured and read her work at universities across the US and in Europe.
  • Graham, Rebecca Lynn (San Francisco)
    • website: www.superbigrockstar.com
    • Fusing dance theater with original music, SuperBigRockStar redefines hybrid performance, bringing a deeply resonant theater experience to our audiences.
  • Granfield, Amy (Eureka)
    • website: www.amygranfield.com
    • Gallery of oil paintings by Amy Granfield, California northcoast artist, depicting the natural world: animals, birds, plants.
  • Grant, Judith (San Francisco)
  • Greenspan, Robin and Lacie Harmon
    • website: http://www.girlplaymovie.com
    • We are the writers/stars of the lesbian romantic comedy “Girl Play.” The website features reviews and awards the film has received, news, pictures and a trailer from the film.
  • Ostolaza, Walter H. Guerra (San Francisco)
  • Gutierrez, Juan Ramon (San Francisco)
  • Haffner, Stephanie (Long Beach)
    • Brutal funny political folkpop songstress in long beach ca – guitar & voice – acoustic, electric, spoken word.
    • website: www.stephaniehaffner.com
  • Hammer, Barbara (New York)
    • Website: http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
    • Over 80 films and videos made during the past 30 years by the pioneer, avantgarde film and video artist, Barbara Hammer. Each work described with images, synopsis, reviews. Order forms available.
  • Hammond-Hagman, Hannah (San Francisco)
  • Harrison, Cindi (San Francisco)
    • novelist and poet
  • Heckman, Shani (San Francisco)
    • website: www.shanestar.org
    • Shani Heckman directs films and coordinates publicity campaigns for the LGBTQ community.
  • Hendrickson, Carl (Oakland)
  • Higgins, John (San Francisco)

photographer

website: www.JBHiggins.com

  • Holden, William
  • Jacobs, Valerie (San Francisco)
  • JBRAP (Oakland)
  • Jerez, Luis
  • Jones, Jeff (Pacifica)
  • Joye, Shelli Renee (Oakland)
    • website: www.ShelliJoye.com
    • My artistic interest lies in the evocation of color field flows which reflect not only natural process, but, more importantly, act as mirrors to reflect living panoramas found within our own internal psychic landscapes.
  • Kane, Robert
  • Katz, Dorian (Oakland)
    • Visual Artist, Curator, Smut Writer
  • Lee, Jez Kuono`ono (Oakland)
  • Lahne, A. (San Francisco)
  • Layton, Susannah (San Francisco)
  • Lipps, Matthew (Los Angeles)
  • Liu, Ginger (Los Angeles)
    • website: http://www.gingerliu.webs.com
    • Ginger Liu is a graduate of London’s University of Westminster with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Media Practice (Photography, Film, Multi-Media). Her work has been published in the UK and USA, and has appeared on MTV. She is a Hollywood based photographer, writer and publicist.
  • Lopez, Alma (Los Angeles)
    • Alma Lopez, is a Los Angeles based visual and public artist.
    • website: www.almalopez.net
  • Lopez, Rebecca (Austin, Texas)
  • Madison, Dale Guy (Los Angeles)
    • about: damn good man productions is a business venture of dale guy madison created to produce entertainment and educational events that address artistic, literary, cinematic, cultural, & gender based empowering messages.
    • contact: Dale@damngoodman.com
    • website: www.damngoodman.com
  • Maldonado, Rigo (Santa Ana)
    • Mixed media queer latino artist…focusing on culture, gender, body image and identity. Mediums included: installations, sculpture, photography and video.
    • website: www.sissysammy.com
  • Martinez, Joel (North Hollywood)
    • Babalu Aye Productions (B.A.P.), is a literary and theatrical production company that seeks to increase and demonstrate the voices of women and people of color within the discourse of LGBT concerns. B.A.P. aims to demarganalize the existence of subcultures within subcultures.
    • contact: martinez7j@gmail.com
  • Medina, Dolissa (San Francisco)
  • Moriarity, Lesa M.
    • website: www.exhibit905.info
    • Exhibit905 for web art projects by artist, Lesa Moriarity, B.F.A., M.A. The art work engages with painting, photography, drawing, and new media, concerned with diverging topics of landscape, presence, feminism, poverty, desire and the subconscious.
  • Motana, Shammy & Mary Garza (Twenty Nine Palms)
    • Art from the Heart
  • nancy the blacksmith (San Francisco)
  • Newman, Mike (UK)
    • abstract painter
  • O’Brien, Genevieve Erin (San Francisco)
    • Erin addresses issues such as hate crimes, homophobia, violence against women, and more with sensitivity and humor in her performances and films.
  • Olson, Jenni (San Francisco)
    • website: http://www.butch.org
    • Jenni Olson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer and historian. She is one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT cinema history.
  • Frank Pietronigro (San Francisco)
    • website: http://www.pietronigro.com
    • This site features interdisciplinary art and projects created by Frank Pietronigro, Painter, New Media Artist, Educator and Author. The artist’s intention is to create interdisciplinary art projects and personal works of art that fortify community and challenge institutional structures.
  • Rodriguez, Nancy (San Diego)
    • Arts administration, arts advocacy, producer, performance artist
  • Rosendahl, Dawn (Altamonte Springs)
  • Ross, Meaghan (Garden Grove)
    • artists, writers, and musicians can submit their work that deals with the idea of gender bending and blending.
    • website: www.zwittertexts.com
  • Sandoval, Lito (San Francisco)
  • Santana, Trilce (San Francisco)
  • Schaffner, Jaime (Los Angeles)
    • Fiction Writer
  • Schwartz, Abby (San Diego)
    • website: http://groups.myspace.com/sirensd
    • Abby Schwartz is the coordinator of SIREN a women’s open mic that takes place is San Diego. SIREN welcomes all forms of expression — with emphasis on LGBT, queer, feminist, and women’s issues.
  • Schwarz, Jeffrey (Los Angeles)
    • website: www.automatpictures.com
    • ‘m a documentary filmmaker, currently at work
      on a feature documentary about gay author & activist Vito Russo.
  • Shenghur, Tika (Thousand Oaks)
  • Smith, Ryan T. (San Francisco)
    • website: www.rawdance.org RAWdance, envisioned by co-founders Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein, strives to craft pieces balancing dance with theatrical elements, and athletic movement with intellectual themes.
  • Smoke, Joe (Los Angeles)
  • spevack, pam (Oakland)
  • Stinson, Charles H. (San Francisco)
  • Vigil, Heather
  • West, Melissa (Oakland)
    • website: http://www.mswest.com
    • My paintings explore the boundaries between realism and abstraction, control and chaos. My inspiration comes from the patterns found in nature.
  • White, Angela Dawn
  • Wolfe, Meg (Los Angeles)
    • website: http://www.dancemegwolfe.org
    • Meg Wolfe is a choreographer, performer, and teacher who has appeared internationally and as part of New York City’s downtown dance scene since 1990; she relocated to Los Angeles in 2003.
  • Zamora (Palo Alto)