Independent Queer Film Showcase Set to Debut This May in Houston

Cinema lovers to the front!

Your favorite Fab Femmes are hosting a Queer Film Showcase in Houston at Pearl Bar on May 23rd! We’re screening six independent films that cover everything from relationship woes to the reality of being queer in Amish country.We’re excited to curate a film showcase that gives viewers the opportunity to connect with talented LGBTQ+ filmmakers while watching fresh, new cinema!

ABOUT THE SHOWCASE

The Queer Film Showcase is dedicated to creating a bold, unapologetic visual platform for independent queer filmmakers. A space where stories that have long existed are moved to the center of the screen.

More than just a showcase, it’s a curated world where artists can connect, collaborate, and feel beautifully seen.

Purchase your film showcase ticket HERE.

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SIZE QUEEN

Directed By: Kenny Fierro

About the Film: When a thirty-something gay man’s viral rant about corporate life turns into a bold podcast, he rallies his three best friends to tackle love, sex, friendship, and self-worth head-on.

Size Queen is a 13-minute proof of concept for a half-hour series or web series. Using humor and friendship to explore identity, intimacy, and ambition, it introduces four gay men navigating love, success, and self-discovery. Through Chris’s podcast, the story uncovers the confessions and questions people rarely voice. This short sets the tone, characters, and themes for a series about friendship, reinvention, and finding your place in the world, showing queer life beyond coming-out stories or health crises, just people living, loving, and figuring it out.

AMISH COUTRY QUEER

Directed By: Colleen C Brady

About the Film: Amish Country Queer follows Brady Pappas, a queer photographer documenting the vibrant LGBTQ+ and drag community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a place more often associated with its Amish heritage than queer visibility. Through Brady’s lens, the film reveals a thriving network of artists, performers, and chosen family building spaces of belonging in an environment where acceptance has not always felt possible.

For Brady, photography is more than documentation. It is a way to reclaim the landscapes of their hometown that once carried isolation and transform them into sites of pride, connection, and creative power. As Brady photographs drag performers, friends, and community gatherings, the images become both archive and affirmation.

The film culminates in Brady’s third annual photography exhibition, where the community they have spent years documenting gathers to celebrate their stories. In that moment, Brady’s work becomes something larger than art: a living portrait of resilience, visibility, and the evolving possibilities of queer life in small-town America.

ALL THE MEN I MET BUT NEVER DATED

Directed By: Muneeb Hassan

About the Film: When Ali and Oliver first spot each other across the gym, they feel an instant attraction that their first few dates confirm. Ali seems happy—but something inside him still holds him back. One night at a party, Oliver calls Ali out on his hesitations.

Ali tells the truth: like many gay Muslims from conservative families, he is in the closet, protecting his family from the fact of who he is. Oliver sympathizes, but he is out and proud and he doesn’t want to be someone’s secret. Ali must decide if his promising relationship is worth upending his life for.

FRUIT LOOPS

Directed By: Danielle Bero

About the Film: After a breakup and a freezer full of frozen eggs, a snarky. lesbian from Queens sets out on a hilariously tragic dating spree in hopes of fining real love – or at least someone who bring something to the damn picnic.

GIRL DINNER

Directed By: Daria Strachan

About the Film: Two women try to salvage their failing relationship with a romantic dinner. Synopsis: Amelia and Trinity sit in a dark restaurant together at the end of a planned-out romantic dinner. The slow night takes a turn when Amelia calls for the check despite Trinity not being done with her food.

CHESTBOUND

Directed By: Janine Anne Uyanga

About the Film: Following Ray’s top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father’s stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray’s estranged mother.