National Queer Theater's
CRIMINAL QUEERNESS FESTIVAL
A Co-Production with HERE
June 11-28, 2025

An Obie Award winning initiative, the Criminal Queerness Festival (CQF) is the official theater event of NYC Pride. The festival showcases new plays by LGBTQ+ artists around the world from countries that criminalize or censor queer communities. CQF amplifies artists who have the guts to risk it all- censorship, imprisonment, and violence- for simply sharing the truth. This year's festival is a co-production with HERE Arts Center, with a lineup including Jedidiah Mugarura's Tomorrow Never Came, Dena Igusti's What You Are To Me, and Krystal Ortiz's frikiNation.

Purchase tickets: https://www.nationalqueertheater.org/cqf2025

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