Queer Performing Arts Festival Returns to BAAD! in the Bronx

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The Bronx's only LGBTQ+ performing arts festival will present EMO: A REBEL'S RAINBOW and more bold new work.

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The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance has announced the return of OUT LIKE THAT!, the Bronx's only LGBTQ+ performing arts festival, running from June 4 through June 27, 2026. At a time when queer and trans communities across the country continue to face escalating attacks on visibility, bodily autonomy, artistic freedom, and basic human rights, OUT LIKE THAT! returns as both a celebration and a declaration: queer artistry, joy, resistance, and community remain vital and unstoppable.

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Charles Rice -Gonzalez shared, “We started Out Like That! over 25 years ago to amplify queer power and creativity in the Bronx. That action remains vital today when there are forces in positions of power in our country working overtime to silence Trans and queer voices and rights. This year's festival gathers artists, activists, healers, and community members for a month-long series of events that honor queer resilience, cultural memory, chosen family, and collective liberation.”

The festival opens on June 4 with EMO: A Rebel's Rainbow by Charly Dominguez, a multimedia live museum experience and performance showcase documenting the realities of surviving and creating as an independent queer artist in New York City. Blending live performance, video, fashion, and visual art, the evening serves as both a personal graduation and a call to remain unapologetically authentic in an era of increasing censorship and erasure.

Additional highlights include the KAC Works in Progress Showcase (June 5), featuring acclaimed Kiki scene movement artists Kalik B and Sharron “Slimm” Jones; the return of Courageous Conversations (June 10), a free community forum featuring legal professional Katherine Grainger and acclaimed cinematographer Nadia Hallgren discussing strategies for living, loving, and thriving within today's political climate; and the OUT LIKE THAT! Dance Compilation (June 11), BAAD!'s signature evening of innovative choreography spanning contemporary, street, experimental, and culturally-rooted movement practices.

The festival also includes a conversation with the Gay Men of The Bronx (June 14); the coming-of- age comedy reading, Nueva Yol (June 18); Juneteenth: Restoration and Rest (June 19), an interactive healing ritual centering QTPOC wellness led by Langston Kahn and Carlos Rosario; the 7th Annual BAAD! Mini Ball (June 20), celebrating ballroom culture and unapologetic self-expression; and cadira-cadera-catedral (June 27), an immersive dance work by choreographer Priscilla Marrero rooted in Afro-Caribbean and diasporic movement traditions.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/OUT-LIKE-THAT-Queer-Festival-to-Return-to-BAAD-in-the-Bronx-20260602)._