Last year’s Flame Con. This year’s 10th annual Flame Con will take place on Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18 at the Sheraton Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. Flame Con is the world’s largest queer comic con. The two-day comic, arts and entertainment convention will showcase creators and special guests from all corners of the LGBTQ fandom. There will be in-depth discussions, exclusive appearances, screenings, cosplay, vendors, video games, panels and more. Photo Nicollette Barsamian
Flame Con will take place on Saturday, August 17th and Sunday, August 18th at the Sheraton Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. On Saturday the convention will take place from 12pm to 8pm and on Sunday from 12pm to 6pm. This year marks the tenth year that Flame Con has thrilled its fans.
Flame Con is the world’s largest queer comics convention, featuring a two-day comics, arts and entertainment expo featuring artists and special guests from all corners of the LGBTQ fandom. There are in-depth discussions, exclusive performances, film screenings, cosplay, vendors, video games, panels and more. Come in cosplay if you feel called to do so.
Geeks of all kinds are invited to attend and celebrate the diversity and creativity of the queer geek scene and the LGBTQ community’s contributions to pop culture. Each year, Flame Con tries to improve upon previous years, always striving to be as welcoming and accessible as possible to as many people as possible, offering more guests, more art, and more celebration for queer geeks everywhere.
Flame Con is sponsored by Geeks Out, Rainbow Crate, Hero Forge, Yen Press, Bluestockings Cooperative, Mad Cave, Somosloud, and The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.
Special guests include: Dillin Apelyan, Emily Drabinski, Jeremy Whitley, JP Karliak, Kris Anka, Megami, Molly Knox Ostertag, ND Stevenson, Princess Weekes, Sarah Myer, Shannon Watters, Sharang Biswas and Terry Blas.
Two full days of panels are packed with knowledge, community and fun.
Some panels the Queens Gazette is looking forward to: “Homosexuality, My Dear Watson”: A History of Queer Readings of Sherlock Holmes; Diversity in Comics: Beyond the Mainstream; Queer Nerd Poetics; Not Like When We Were Kids: Celebrating Queer Visibility in Youth Entertainment; The Secret (and Queer) History of Libraries; Introducing Omegaverse: Why Six Genders Are Better Than Two; Redshirts: An Impromptu Star Trek Musical; Finding Yourself in the Pages: Coming of Age with Graphic Novels; and Activism is Speculative Fiction: Using Fictional Worlds to Change the Real One.
