This year’s theme is “Living Legacies: Rooted in Memory, Growing in Power.” We hope you’ll join us at the MLK Lodge (353 Court St.) tonight, November 20 at 6:00pm!

The application deadline is Thursday, November 20. If you have questions, please reach out to Board Chair Michele Thornton at michele.thornton@imageout.org.

Currently, we're seeking diverse applicants, especially those with experience in the following areas: Community Outreach; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Anti-racism & Accessibility (DEIAA); Event Production; Marketing, Graphic Design, Editing/Writing/Spoken Word; Visual Art Curation/Creation.

We are a passionate and committed group, working to celebrate and support local LGBTQ+ arts and culture year-round in our greater Rochester community. We bring film festivals/screenings, visual arts exhibitions, literary/spoken word events and other related programs to life each year.

Thank you to all of our audience members who voted via digital and paper ballots and to everyone who served on our juries. Congratulations to the winners!

Jury Awards:
🎞️ Best Documentary Feature: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
🎞️ Chuck Lundeen Best Narrative Feature: Rains Over Babel
🎞️ Best Short: Dead End

Audience Awards:
🎞️ Best Documentary Feature: The Librarians
🎞️ Best Narrative Feature: Four Mothers & Lesbian Space Princess (tie)
🎞️ Best Short: Aromcom

The application deadline is Thursday, November 20. If you have questions, please reach out to Board Chair Michele Thornton at michele.thornton@imageout.org.

Currently, we're seeking diverse applicants, especially those with experience in the following areas: Community Outreach; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Anti-racism & Accessibility (DEIAA); Event Production; Marketing, Graphic Design, Editing/Writing/Spoken Word; Visual Art Curation/Creation.

We are a passionate and committed group, working to celebrate and support local LGBTQ+ arts and culture year-round in our greater Rochester community. We bring film festivals/screenings, visual arts exhibitions, literary/spoken word events and other related programs to life each year.

This year’s theme is “Living Legacies: Rooted in Memory, Growing in Power.” We hope you’ll join us at the MLK Lodge (353 Court St.) on Thursday, November 20 at 6:00pm!

📆 Check out the full LGBTQ+ Arts Community Calendar here: rochester.lgbt/community-ca...

This exhibition is in partnership with ImageOut and features a charity raffle that will take place for the duration, benefiting Greater Rochester LGBTQ+ Mutual Aid.”

ℹ️ More Information: flowercityarts.org/events/mx-me...

🎨 About the Exhibition: "MX. MEDIA is a multimedia salon-style show that aims to showcase the immense skill and creativity within the region's queer community. It also features work from various locations across North America from our open submission call.

The exhibition remains on view through December 5 in the Firehouse Gallery in the Ceramic Studio (first floor) at Flower City Arts Center (713 Monroe Ave.).

🎬 Official Trailer: youtu.be/TNE9CKTgWW8?...

📆 Check out the full LGBTQ+ Arts Community Calendar here: rochester.lgbt/community-ca...

Absurd and strangely sweet, A Useful Ghost finds surprising depth and satirical bite in a story examining what value a society finds both in the living and its dead.

Presented in Thai and Lao, with English subtitles. Content Warnings: death, blood, violence, sex, nudity.”

🎞️ About the Film: “A ghostly, genre-bending romance.

A grieving young widower is shocked to discover his wife’s spirit has been reincarnated in the form of a vacuum cleaner — one of the many household products built in his family’s failing appliance factory.