Amazing News! The TAG! Queer Shorts Festival has announced its Grand Gesture Books Award for "Best Erotic Short" to CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro! @xjlondonx.bsky.social @johnnycastroxxx.bsky.social Watch April 11th in Portland! @tagqsf.org cstpdxtickets.square.site/product/tag-...

Ticket links are ready for Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2026! The best value by far is the festival pass, but supplies are limited! cstpdxtickets.square.site

The festival closes with PNW directing/acting talent. Come support your fam! A Seat at the Table [USA] A Wedding to Diego [USA] Controlling the Narrative [USA] Hell is Cool [Aotearoa] Mean Goals [USA] Mickaela: Connection | Isolation [USA] Ornaments [USA] Room for the Rest [Canada] Unmasking [USA]

Here's our 3rd block, a sampling of all the genres we get each year!! Anything With a Switch Canvas Dance Like Everyone's Watching In Due Time Kokuhaku* Lesbian Vampyres from Outter Space Le sève sous ta langue Merlyn's Beard Pink Oz's The D Word The King (Un)Free Will—The Confession

More queer and diverse than HUMP, our Get Up, Get Off program includes the following shorts: Backseat CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro* Daddylove El bosque me habló sobre ti It's My Birthday and I'll Cum if You Let Me Meet the Camera No Man Like Me Not Exactly Strangers Sex Siren

Our opening block THE HEAVEN SPOT looks at both affirming and disruptive ways queers show up for each other. Big Bass [USA] Exploitation [USA] Intercambio [Spain] Joshua Tree (Part 2) [USA]* One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne [USA]* Part of the Band [Canada] Seamos mejores [Spain] Sorority [USA]

Official selections for the 2026 edition of Tag! Queer Shorts Festival will be announced today! Filmmakers should expect a message from FilmFreeway at around 3pm and the list will go live at tagqsf.org at 4pm. Congratulations, directors!

If you identify as trans, intersex, non-binary, or agender, you may want to check out the call for entries from the tink festival in Hamburg: tinkino.org/en/

Woohoo, we got a record number of submissions for our 2026 festival! Tag! Entries are now closed unless you have an invitation from Tag! (password required). Official selection announcements go out on February 1, 2026!

We're in the final days of open submissions for the 2026 festival! Get your films in today at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf. After Monday only invited projects will be accepted.

What?! A new award!? YES!!! Our local Black queer woman-owned Grand Gesture Books is sponsoring our first-ever prize for best erotic short! We're just under 3 weeks from closing so get your submission to us on FilmFreeway.com/tagqsf

If you have ethnic ties to Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula, your film could win the Hispane/Latine Creativity award sponsored by Milagro, a Portland nonprofit that serves Latino communities through art and entertainment. Don't miss ¡Alebrijes! on now, tix at milagro.org!

Does your film highlight queer approaches to power and community building? You could be the winner of the Power of Community award sponsored by @questcenter.bsky.social Award details are at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf #queerfilm #lgbtqia #shortfilms #filmfestival

Tag! is committed to creating accessible film experiences and we require captions for all films that have dialogue or sound effects that advance the story. Be sure to update your FilmFreeway project file with high-quality SRT captions files!

Make no mistake about it—Tag! is an antifascist festival that eagerly platforms filmmakers with an antifascist ethos. Image adapted from a 1989 German activist sticker that read "Schwule & Lesben Gegen Nazis."

Tag! started as a way to engage young people in the creation and platforming of stories that are missing from popular media—our queer stories. The erasure of queerness is now official government policy and your courageous storytelling is more necessary than ever. How can Tag! help you share yours?

The "Regular Deadline" has passed but if you're considering leaving your mark on the Portland war zone, make sure to get your film submitted by December 1, 2025. Let's make this the most defiantly brown/Black, genderfucked and sexy Tag! ever!

Check out Tag! director Juan Trujillo's side project, the book is on sale through November! (Wait, maybe Tag! is the side project...)

Tag! usually posts graphicked-up images of our venue but in case you're buying the "war ravaged" narrative, here is a clear view of the Clinton and a bit of the pedestrian plaza where you'll find dive bars, restaurants, and a super chill vibe. Main submission deadline is Wednesday!

Tag! is excited to have our popular erotic shorts category back this year. If you've got an explicit short that fits the Tag! ethos of humanizing film that challenges heteronormative discourse, send it in before our October 1 or December 1 deadlines! #lgbtqia2s #queerfilm #gayfilm

We are just two weeks away from the Regular Deadline and waiting for YOU to get your queer short film submitted! Contact the festival at [email protected] for info about content and submission discounts.

Tag! has a new poster to support submissions! Where would you like to see one? Let us know and we'll get it up if possible!

Our new venue for 2026 has some great programming all year long, the September Crumbling Empires series looks like a winner. Swing on by the Clinton Street Theater if you're around! cstpdx.com/crumbling-em...

The early deadline is upon us! Save some $ on your submission by getting your film to us by August 1, 2025 through filmfreeway.com/tagqsf

This can’t be allowed to happen. We need the festivals with multimillion dollar budgets to step up and support this student-run project @framelinefestival.bsky.social ? @outonfilm.org ? New Fest? Out Fest?

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics truthout.org/articles/sex...

Films are rolling in! Check out tagqsf.org for technical specs and guidelines that will boost your chances of selection, we're here to help you get your story on the screen!

We are open for submissions starting today!

Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Tag! is on the move, we'll be landing at the Clinton Street Theater, a historic cinema with a long counterculture legacy and site of ongoing showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show since 1978. Mark your calendars for April 11-12, 2026!

Join me for a reading from my book Objetos de [des]amor along with new work from longtime collaborators Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, Ivonne Saed and phenomenal guitarist María E. Olaya. We'll be at Milagro's Zócalo on June 22, 1-3 pm! Come early to chat and enjoy our art installation!

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

Come see me tonight at Literary Arts!

1/5 Time for a quick Monday morning rant. We’re not surprised—but it still hurts. The Trump admin is slashing funding for life-saving LGBTQ+ health research. These aren’t just budget cuts; they’re part of a pattern to silence, sideline, and endanger queer and trans lives.

Hey Tag! community--we've got a recommendation for you! The Tomorrow Theater will be presenting a documentary on pandemic-era trans experience "Connection/Isolation" scored by a major supporter of queer creators (and Tag!) Luka Fisher. tomorrowtheater.org/movies/conne...

Hey y'all, I'm participating in a reading at Literary Arts just a month from today. There will be 3 featured readers offering work around the theme "Ritual" and some time for community conversation. Info at literary-arts.org/event/incite...

Un gran aplauso por favor para Dolissa Medina y VIEJITO/ENFERMITO/GRITO, corto ganador del Festival Director's Award. Congratulations to Dolissa Medina for winning the Festival Director's Award for VIEJITO/ENFERMITO/GRITO and a big thank you for joining us in Portland last weekend!

Parabéns to directors Thassilo Weber and Vitória Fallavena for winning the inaugural Milagro Award for Hispane/Latine Creativity with their film EU NÃO SEI SE VOU TER QUE FALAR TUDO DE NOVO. Learn more about Milagro: milagro.org

Congratulations to director Juliette Leach for winning the first-ever Quest Center Award for Resilience in Recovery at Tag! this year! It was a pleasure to have Juliette in Portland with us this past weekend! @questcenter.bsky.social

That's it for Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2025, thanks to the wonderful filmmakers and our great Portland audience. Tag! will be back with mid-season programming and an all-new festival in 2026!

Come on down to the Hollywood for our last day of queer shorts! Screenings are at 3 (Presentes) and 7 (Connect) @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social

Thank you for turning out for the first day of Tag! and especially for repeating last year’s full house for the Local Action block! Come back for some great Latinx films at 3pm tomorrow and for our closing program at 7!

It’s the opening day of Tag! Queer Shorts Festival, come on over to the Hollywood for screenings at 3 and 7 pm! @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social

Thanks @wweek.com, for reminding folks about the @tagqsf.org coming to the Hollywood this weekend, Saturday, April 5th & Sunday, April 6th with 4 unique programs screening 42 new queer short films! Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/series/tag-queer-shorts-festival

The Tag! community was invited to participate in a project called "Look Me In The Eye" with filmed affirmations of queer existence in the face of attempted political erasure. @finalfinalproject.bsky.social exceeded expectations with this beautiful reflection.

We're just a couple of days away from the big event! Get your tickets today from hollywoodtheatre.org and we'll see you on Saturday and Sunday to watch all of these great shorts. @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, Tag! celebrates the stories and storytellers from transgender communities who have contributed to the festival every year. Over one third of Tag! short films center transgender experience in the 2025 program. Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2025 is this weekend!

Block 2: Local Action Most folx are familiar with the saying "think globally, act locally..." and filmmakers from British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon are definitely bringing queer voices to life in dynamic ways. Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/local-action

Block 1: Emergence Queerness is perhaps uniquely marked by the extent to which it occupies liminal spaces. The films in this block, in some way or another, explore moments of transition. Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/emergence