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Flame Con is an annual two-day multi-genre entertainment and comic convention, focused on fans and creators of pop culture who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ).[1]

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  1. 99 relations: Adam Silvera, Alex London, Ali Forney Center, Alyssa Wong, Amy Chu, Amy Reeder, Anime, Anthony Oliveira, Bisexuality, Bishakh Som, Blue Lights (2023 TV series), Brittney Williams, Charlie Jane Anders, Chris Claremont, Chuck Tingle, ClexaCon, Comic book convention, Comics, Condé Nast, Cosplay, COVID-19 pandemic, Cristy Road, Crystal Frasier, Dan Parent, Dana Simpson, David Levithan, Dax ExclamationPoint, Drag queen, Dylan Marron, Ed Luce, Food 4 Thot, Gay, GaymerX, Geeks OUT, Grand Prospect Hall, Graphic novel, Greg Pak, Irene Koh, Jadzia Axelrod, James Romberger, James Tynion IV, Jeff Krell, Jen Bartel, Jennifer Camper, Jenny Owen Youngs, Josh Trujillo, Julia Kaye, K Alexander, Kate Leth, Kevin Wada, ... Expand index (49 more) »

  2. Annual events in New York City
  3. Comics conventions in the United States
  4. Conventions in New York City
  5. Fan conventions in the United States
  6. LGBT conferences

Adam Silvera

Adam Silvera (born June 7, 1990) is an American author of young adult fiction novels, known for his bestselling novels They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, and History Is All You Left Me.

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Alex London

Alex London (who has also published under the names Charles London and C. Alexander London) is an American author for children and young adults, and adults, having authored picture books, middle grade and young fiction, as well as adult nonfiction.

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Ali Forney Center

The Ali Forney Center (AFC), based in New York City, is the largest LGBT community center helping LGBTQ homeless youth in the United States.

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Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games.

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Amy Chu

Amy Chu (born 1968) is an American comic book author who runs the comic imprint Alpha Girl Comics as well as writing comics for other publishers.

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Amy Reeder

Amy Reeder (born August 25, 1980), formerly known as Amy Reeder Hadley, is an American comic book artist and writer known for her work on titles such as Fool's Gold, Madame Xanadu, Batwoman, and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Anthony Oliveira

Anthony Oliveira is a Canadian author, journalist and pop culture critic.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Bishakh Som

Bishakh Som is an Indian-American trans-femme cartoonist and graphic novelist based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Blue Lights (2023 TV series)

Blue Lights is a Northern Irish police procedural television drama series set in the fictional Blackthorn police station in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the series was filmed. Created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, it began broadcasting on BBC One on 27 March 2023. The first series followed three probationary police officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the experienced officers who train, mentor, and work with them, with the second following the same characters a year later trying to quell a loyalist feud in the city.

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Brittney Williams

Brittney LaDawn Williams is an American character designer and comic artist.

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Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969) is an American writer.

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Chris Claremont

Christopher S. Claremont (born November 25, 1950) is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 16-year stint on Uncanny X-Men from 1975 to 1991, far longer than that of any other writer,Claremont, Chris.

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Chuck Tingle

Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author, primarily of niche gay erotica.

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ClexaCon

ClexaCon is a former annual fan convention focused on female members of the LGBTQ community. Flame Con and ClexaCon are fan conventions in the United States and LGBT conferences.

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Comic book convention

A comic book convention or comic con is a fan convention emphasizing comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Cosplay

Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cristy Road

Cristina Carrera, otherwise known as Cristy C. Road (born May 26, 1982) is a Cuban-American illustrator, graphic novelist, and punk rock musician whose posters, music, and autobiographical works explore themes of feminism, queer culture, and social justice.

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Crystal Frasier

Crystal Frasier is an American artist, author and game designer.

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Dan Parent

Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics.

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Dana Simpson

Dana Claire Simpson, is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic Phoebe and her Unicorn, as well as the long-running webcomic Ozy and Millie.

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David Levithan

David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor.

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Dax ExclamationPoint

Dax ExclamationPoint is the stage name of Dax Martin, a drag performer and cosplayer who competed on season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

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Drag queen

A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.

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Dylan Marron

Dylan Marron (born May 31, 1988) is an American actor, writer and activist known for his voice work as Carlos in the podcast Welcome to Night Vale and his video series Every Single Word, an art and data visualization project which compiles all the words spoken by people of color in major motion pictures.

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Ed Luce

Ed Luce is an American cartoonist, best known for his indie comics series Wuvable Oaf.

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Food 4 Thot

Food 4 Thot is an LGBT podcast hosted by Tommy Pico, Denne Michele Norris, Joseph Osmundson, and Fran Tirado.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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GaymerX

GaymerX is an American public-benefit nonprofit corporation based in California dedicated to celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ people and culture in the world of gaming, with a focus on video games.

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Geeks OUT

Geeks OUT is a New York City-based, non-profit organization, founded in 2010, whose mission is to rally, empower, and promote the queer geek community.

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Grand Prospect Hall

Grand Prospect Hall, also known as Prospect Hall, was a large Victorian-style banquet hall at 263 Prospect Avenue in the South Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Greg Pak

Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director.

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Irene Koh

Irene Koh is a comics artist from Seoul, South Korea.

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Jadzia Axelrod

Jadzia Axelrod is an American comic book writer and illustrator, known for her graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star and her role as a writer on the DC Comics miniseries Hawkgirl.

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James Romberger

James Romberger (born 1958) is an American artist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.

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James Tynion IV

James T. Tynion IV (born December 14, 1987) is an American comic book author.

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Jeff Krell

Jeffrey A. Krell is an openly gay American cartoonist, known for his long-running syndicated comic strip Jayson.

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Jen Bartel

Jen Bartel is an American illustrator and comic artist, best known for her work for Marvel Comics and Image Comics.

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Jennifer Camper

Jennifer Camper is a cartoonist and graphic artist whose work is inspired by her own experiences as a Lebanese-American lesbian.

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Jenny Owen Youngs

Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Josh Trujillo

Josh Trujillo is an American writer known for his work on comic book franchises such as Adventure Time, Captain America, and Rick and Morty.

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Julia Kaye

Julia Evelyn Kaye (born June 15, 1988) is an American artist, illustrator, and voice actress.

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K Alexander

K Alexander (born October 9, 1992) is a Canadian actor, writer, web series creator and YouTube personality, best known as LaFontaine in the popular LGBT web series Carmilla (2014–2016).

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Kate Leth

Katrina Jade "Kate" Leth (born 1988) is a Canadian comic book creator, known for works such as Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!.

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Kevin Wada

Kevin Wada is an American watercolor painter and comics artist.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity.

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Kris Anka

Kris Anka is an American comics artist and inker, best known for his work with Marvel Comics on X-Men, Runaways, Captain Marvel, and his 2014 re-design of Spider-Woman.

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Kristin Russo

Kristin Russo (born December 17, 1980) is an American speaker, personality, and LGBTQ activist.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Lilah Sturges

Lilah Sturges (born Matthew Sturges, October 1970) is an American writer of comics and fantasy novels.

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Mackenzi Lee

Mackenzi Lee (born Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven) is an American author of books for children and young adults.

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Magdalene Visaggio

Magdalene Visaggio (born September 22, 1984) is an American comic book writer. Visaggio is known for her work on Kim & Kim and Vagrant Queen. Her comics have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards. Her comic series Vagrant Queen was adapted into a television series which ran for a single season on Syfy in 2020.

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Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe (born 1989) is an American cartoonist and author.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marc Andreyko

Marc Andreyko (born June 20, 1970) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter, best known for the true crime series Torso he co-wrote with Brian Michael Bendis and for co-creating the character Kate Spencer for DC Comics.

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Marguerite Van Cook

Marguerite Van Cook (née Martin) (born 1954) is an English artist, writer, musician/singer and filmmaker.

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Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki (born 1975) is a Canadian artist and writer.

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MariNaomi

MariNaomi (born as Mari Naomi Schaal; born August 2, 1973) is an American graphic artist and cartoonist who often publishes autobiographical comics and is also well-known for creating three online databases of underrepresented cartoonists.

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Mark Patton

Mark Patton (born September 22, 1959) is an American interior designer and actor.

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Matthew Waterhouse

Matthew Waterhouse (born 19 December 1961) is an English actor and writer, best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1980 to 1982.

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Melanie Gillman

Melanie Gillman is an American queer non-binary cartoonist, illustrator, and lecturer, specializing in LGBTQ comics for Young Adult readers, including the webcomic As the Crow Flies. Their comics have been published by Boom! Studios, Iron Circus Comics, Lion Forge Comics, Slate, VICE, Prism Comics, Northwest Press, and The Nib.

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Molly Knox Ostertag

Molly Knox Ostertag (born October 28, 1991) is an American cartoonist and writer.

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ND Stevenson

Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson (born Noelle Diana Stevenson, December 31, 1991), known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer.

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Nicole Georges

Nicole J. Georges (born December 10, 1981 in Kansas) is an American illustrator, writer, zinester, podcaster, and educator.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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O Human Star

O Human Star is a science fiction family drama webcomic by Blue Delliquanti.

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Out (magazine)

Out is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States.

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Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez (born July 12, 1970) is an American comics artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles, and his artistry for his 2021 critically acclaimed partnership with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Pulse nightclub shooting

On, 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States before Orlando Police officers fatally shot him after a three-hour standoff.

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Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender.

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Robin Lord Taylor

Robin Lord Taylor (born June 4, 1978) is an American actor and director.

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Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an American illustrator and cartoonist.

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Sana Amanat

Sana Amanat is an American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics.

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Shadi Petosky

Shadi Petosky is a television show runner.

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Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel is a, 51-story hotel located near Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sina Grace

Sina Grace (born August 3, 1986) is an American comics writer, artist, memoirist, and social media personality.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Soman Chainani

Soman Chainani is an American author, best known for writing the children's book series The School for Good and Evil.

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Sophie Campbell

Sophie Campbell (formerly Ross Campbell, and known professionally as Moon Calfe) is a comic writer and artist known for her indie comics such as Wet Moon and Shadoweyes, and for her art on the ''Jem and the Holograms'' comics, as well as IDW Publishing's ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series.

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Steenz

Christina "Steenz" Stewart is an American cartoonist and editor known for illustrating Archival Quality and currently authoring and illustrating the daily comic strip Heart of the City.

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Steve Orlando

Steve Orlando is an American comic book writer, known for his work for DC Comics writing characters such as Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Wonder Woman, and two series starring Midnighter, which were nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

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Tanya DePass

Tanya DePass (born 1973), also known by her username Cypheroftyr, is an American journalist, activist and streamer.

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Tee Franklin

Tee Franklin is a comic book writer who has worked for Image, Marvel and DC Comics.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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Toy gun

Toy guns are toys which imitate real guns, but are designed for recreational sport or casual play by children.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Ulises Fariñas

Ulises Alfonso Fariñas (born December 29, 1985, in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is a Cuban-American comic book writer and artist.

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Vincent Rodriguez III

Vincent Rodriguez III (born August 10, 1982) is an American stage and television actor.

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Washington Blade

The Washington Blade is an LGBT newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale is a satirical science fiction podcast presented as a community radio show in the fictional American desert town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it.

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See also

Annual events in New York City

Comics conventions in the United States

Conventions in New York City

Fan conventions in the United States

LGBT conferences

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_Con

Also known as Flamecon.

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