At QGCon, we bring together academic researchers, game industry workers, artists, students, and players to share knowledge, engage in critical conversations, and build community, all in the context of approaching games through a queer lens.

Our events are free and open to the public. We began in 2013 at UC Berkeley as a ragtag group of queer game artists and emerging scholars. After three events in Berkeley, we moved to Los Angeles in 2017, and then Montréal in 2018. The next QGCon will take place once again in Montréal, in 2025.

We take an intersectional approach to queerness. We believe that the struggles — and the victories! — of we who play from the margins are interconnected. We invite attention to race, gender, body type, ability, class, and culture in all our work.