QGCon (Queerness and Games Conference) 2025

QGCon is an annual event that brings together creators, academics, artists, educators, and activists to explore the intersection of LGBTQ issues and video games. After canceling our planned 2020 conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we shifted to online events for the last five years. QGCon 2025 marks our return to in-person programming. As part of our commitment to accessibility, QGCon 2025 will be a COVID-cautious event with respirator mask requirements — please read on for more specific information.

We understand queerness as a way of relating differently to the systems and power structures around us, including those structures that are replicated in the game industry and in games themselves. As such, we are interested in games that feature LGBTQ+ representation, games made by creators who identify on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and projects that queer game making and game play by reimagining, reinterpreting, and recontextualizing the medium.