HOT Festival
Mixed Fruit 🍇 Queer Variety 2026
Mixed Fruit Queer Variety is a delicious mixed bag of performance, personality, and pleasure.
Campfire Queer Storytime
Campfire is back at its original home! Featuring the legendary Lori E. Seid and Glenn Marla!
Teacups
Don’t get dizzy. On July 8th, Dixon Place is host to TEACUPS: a harlequin variety show, one night only.
Freaks and fairies of all creeds will grow beards and sprout wings for G.L.I.T.S., Brookl…
Late Onset
A queer love story solo play about becoming diabetic in the middle of a Shakespeare tour.
Food Noise
Food Noise: A performance and interactive art workshop about listening, desire and honoring the queer tradition of fighting back by being a pleasure seeking hedonist.
Straight Out of the Closet
Witness two drag queens bravely step into a world built for people just like them.
Dykes at Dixon: The Male Gayze
🚨🧔♂️👀 ATTENTION DYKES 🚨👀🧔♂️
DYKES AT DIXON is serving a heaping helping of MALE GAYZE 😵💫📸💄 at Dixon Place’s HOTDance!
THE MALE GAYZE IS UPON US. DON’T LOOK AWAY. 👁️👄👁️
Evil Gays/Big Orgasms A Split Bill. Paris Adkins and Brooke Ferris
In My Orgasm and Me, Brooke Ferris hilariously explores orgasm, desire, and shame through clowning, vulnerability, and self-discovery. Be Gay. Do Crime. Paris Adkins lives their life by this motto, a…
A Raisin’ on Up
WELCOME TO THE GAME OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
Play to win Black Excellence and hang with the Jeffersons or lose and end up in poverty with the Younger Family.
A new play by Janelle Lawrence.
post-modern prometheus
oz is tired of Men. the most reasonable conclusion is to become God.
Yet You’re A Virgin (And So Am I)
For most gay people ”it gets better” but for Kaden and Madeline…it gets worse
Clayton the Dork
Fourteen-year-old freshman Clayton goes from zero to hero in a matter of moments. What now?
HOT!Dance
Queer Identified Choreographers of all dance forms to showcase new, 8 – 15 minute pieces.
Last Rights
In a 1985 AIDS ward, a free-spirited gay musician and a closeted Catholic priest form an unlikely bond.
Dice Goblins
A group of queer twenty-somethings struggle to come of age through their new Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
HOT PANTS🔥QUEER SHORTS
Slip into something scandalous and join us for HOT PANTS: An Evening of Queer Shorts. Expect sweat, sass, and surprises in all the right places.
POP UP PIANO BAR
Join Piano Bar Diva Jennifer Pace for Hot Festivals first POP UP PIANO BAR. Warm up your voice and sing your favorite Queer Anthem and show us all how fierce you are!
Experiments and Disorders presents: KISMET
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.
strays
Harlem Hanover, retired Olympic volleyball player, adopts three kids to teach them her life’s philosophy: winning.
What.A.Boor
Sly — a self-proclaimed prodigious playwright — has his big debut tonight. But first! His pre-show speech.
I’m Not Mike White
Tarot. Fathers. AIDS. The White Lotus. Celebrity doppelgängers. In the end it all makes sense.
Cosmic Docks
A 30-something queerdo fumbling towards clarity finds an alien missive in the dumpster out back of their local top surgery office.
Kevin R. Free’s Daddy Playlist
Daddy wants to give you something, but Daddy doesn’t know that what he has to give is even what you want. So here’s a playlist, America.
