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An LGBTQ+ focused sci-fi, fantasy, and horror convention in Minneapolis, MN • October 3-5, 2025

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If you can't make the whole weekend at #Gaylaxicon2025, day rates are still available for Saturday and Sunday at gaylaxiconmn.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
#Gaylaxicon2025 starts TODAY! We’re kicking things off at 1 pm. Visit gaylaxiconmn.org for the full program and to register if you haven’t already! Hope to see you all there!

#BoldlyInclusive
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We had a wonderful evening with the #Gaylaxicon2025 guests of honor at DreamHaven Books! Thanks to all who attended and made the evening special.

The convention is less than a day away and there are just a few hours left to save $5 on a full membership. Be sure to register at gaylaxiconmn.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Our annual Chocolate Symposium is this Saturday, Oct. 4 at 3 pm! Gaylaxicon will supply an array of chocolates. Stop by the ConSuite and bring your favorite chocolates to share!

Find our full programming for #Gaylaxicon2025 at www.gaylaxiconmn.org#preview
September 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Dine and mingle with #Gaylaxicon2025 Guests of Honor at our Friday Banquet (October 3). Tickets are $40 for convention members and enter you for a chance to win door prizes. Register at gaylaxiconmn.org
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Can’t make the whole convention? Day rates are now available for #Gaylaxicon2025! Register for the full convention or by day at gaylaxiconmn.org
September 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: E.M. Hamill is a writer of #queer #scifi & #urbanfantasy. Their novel Peacemaker was a finalist in the BookLife Prize for Fiction. Whiskey and Warfare was runner-up in the LesFic Bard Awards & a top-four finalist in the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition.

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September 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#Gaylaxicon2025 is kicking off with a free event open to the public, featuring our guests of honor! Join us for the early release of Nghi Vo's A Mouthful of Dust, plus rapid-fire readings with Emma Törzs, K.D. Edwards, and Jim Johnson.

🗓️ Thursday, October 2 at 7 pm
📍 DreamHaven Books & Comics
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Dax Schwartz is the author of the novels Superpowers, a Nebula finalist, & Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic. They also write short stories & nonfiction and are currently writing a #mystery novel with an #autistic, #nonbinary detective in Minneapolis.

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September 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Lee Brontide is an artist, author, and therapist from St Paul. After a decade in indie comics, they now write novels about family, disability, trauma, and queerness. Their #YA #sci-fi series includes the novels Secondhand Origin Stories and Names in Their Blood.

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September 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Haddayr Copley-Woods is a #Minneapolis writer, radio commentator & essayist. Her stories have been published in Apex, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, & Best American Erotica. She writes #darkfantasy & #horror short stories on #disability & queerness.

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September 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Joe, aka J.M. Lee, is a #Minneapolis writer best known for his television, novels & comics within the world of Jim Henson's #TheDarkCrystal. He teaches on world building, magic systems, and constructed languages. His most recent novel is The Nightland Express.

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September 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Stephanie Burt is the Donald and Katherine Loker Professor of English at Harvard, where she teaches classes on sci-fi, comic books, #poetry, being #queer & trans, and Taylor Swift. Her most recent books are Super Gay Poems and We Are Mermaids.

#Gaylaxicon2025 #comicbooks #scifi
September 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Watt started making small watercolor zines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their tabletop RPG writing creates a venue to explore existential anxiety, body horror, climate change, and connect with friends.

Register at gaylaxiconmn.org

#Gaylaxicon2025 #TTRPG #zines
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Rachel Gold is the author of multiple award-winning #queer & #trans YA novels. Their debut novel, Being Emily, was the first #YA novel to tell the story of a transgender girl from her perspective. Rachel is a nonbinary lesbian, all-around geek and avid gamer.

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September 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Kelly Barnhill received the Newbery Medal in 2017 for her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon. She has made the NY Times Best Seller list & the Indie Bestseller list. She is the author of When Women Were Dragons, The Witch’s Boy, and Iron Hearted Violet.

#Gaylaxicon2025 #SFFH #YA
September 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Eleanor Arnason is a #Minnesota author whose work often depicts cultural conflict & change, and characters who seldom live by their societies' rules. Her novel A Woman of the Iron People won the 1992 Mythopoeic Award and the very first Otherwise Award in 1991.

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September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, & musician. Like many authors, his life experience is broad and odd, and it also includes 20 years spent on the road as a musician. His works range from children’s literature and YA, to #SFFH novels, poetry & music.

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September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: C.M. Alongi is a #scifi #fantasy author and content creator from the #TwinCities. She's best known for her TikTok series CaFae Latte. The book based on that series, Heart of Iron, comes out Oct 7! Her 2023 novel Citadel was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award.

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September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Gaylaxicon 2025 is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and welcoming convention experience for all attendees and guests. To support our Boldly Inclusive mission, masks will be required in all convention spaces. More information can be found at www.gaylaxiconmn.org/covid-19-saf...
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Lyda Morehouse is a Shamus Award winning author who came out as a lesbian in the 80s, remade herself as the best-selling #paranormal author Tate Hallaway, and recently published Welcome to Boy.Net in her own name.

Register for #Gaylaxicon2025 at gaylaxiconmn.org
September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Naomi Kritzer is a Locus, Hugo, Nebula, and Lodestar award-winning author. Her first duology featured a lesbian protagonist and her YA duology, starting with Catfishing on CatNet, centers #neurodivergent #queer youth.

Register for #Gaylaxicon2025 at www.gaylaxiconmn.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Time is running out! Book a room at📍Crowne Plaza Suites MSP Airport - MOA by 🗓️ Friday (9/12) to reserve a spot in our #Gaylaxicon2025 room block and get special pricing rates.

Book today at www.gaylaxiconmn.org#hotel
September 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Miss Shannan Paul is a comedian, host, and professional chaos-wrangler. Join us Saturday, Oct. 4 for her live show Comedy Through the Chaos: Cabaret Edition — Out & Outrageous for an evening of #fandom, inclusion, and laughs at #Gaylaxicon2025!

Register at www.gaylaxiconmn.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Register now at www.gaylaxiconmn.org to save $10 on your Gaylaxicon 2025 membership! From now through September 15, tickets are $80 for three days of #LGBTQ+ focused sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Join us October 3-5 in Minneapolis, MN for a Boldly Inclusive #Gaylaxicon2025!
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM