National Queer Arts Festival

National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF) is an annual queer festival in San Francisco organized by the Queer Cultural Center and established in 1998 to coincide with Pride Month.[1][2]

Other organisations which have assisted over the years include the Harvey Milk Institute, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art and the Center for African and African American Art & Culture.[3]

Jonathan David Katz is the founding artist director of the festival.[4]

Since 1998, NQAF has presented more than 800 different events that have featured more than 2,300 LGBTQ+ artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Meredith Monk, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Thom Gunn, Cherríe Moraga and Dorothy Allison. NQAF is the largest queer arts festival in North America.

  1. ^ "Queer Arts Festivals International". Queer West. Archived from the original on 2010-05-17.
  2. ^ "National Queer Arts Festival 2009 - Events". Queer Cultural Center.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference sfc99-1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale: Jonathan David Katz". Yale.edu (Internet Archive). December 25, 2005. Archived from the original on December 25, 2005. Retrieved June 4, 2009.