Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi

Portland, OR

Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors

Access notes: Potential strobing, death and destruction.

Age recommendation: 18+

DESCRIPTION

Queer horror isn’t a subgenre; it is the genre. Founded in 2015, Queer Horror is the only LGBTQ+ horror screening and performance series in the country—and now it’s a party! Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors presents short horror films intercut with live (or undead?) drag performances from Portland’s finest ghouls, all curated and introduced by Carla Rossi. Featuring an artist market led by Jason Edward Davis, psychic readings, and culminating in a dance party complete with a Friday the 13th costume contest, Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors is guaranteed to be a scream.

ABOUT QUEER HORROR

Queer Horror is the only LGTBQ+ horror film and performance series in the United States. Hosted and programmed by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi (Anthony Hudson) and featuring a marketplace from artist Jason Edward Davis, Queer Horror screens bimonthly at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, and tours nationally at theatrical venues while also representing at horror conventions.

Consistently selling out a century-old movie house full of nearly 400 queers and allies for rowdy screenings of films containing queerness in front of and behind the lens, and opening with staged pre-shows starring Portland drag and burlesque all-stars of all genders, Queer Horror celebrates horror as an intrinsically queer genre—not a subgenre—and asks what it means to identify with the monster. Crawl into the crypt at queer-horror.com and on Instagram at @queerhorrorpdx.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde/Siletz artist and writer also known as Carla Rossi, Portland's premier drag clown. Hudson’s performance work—from his award-winning solo show Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror at the Hollywood Theatre—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements including the US Pavilion’s drag clown in residence at the 2024 Venice Biennale, features in Hyperallergic and Art in America, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A 2023 FSG Writer’s Fellowship finalist and 2024 Tin House resident, Hudson’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, and Arts and International Affairs. Hudson is currently adapting Looking for Tiger Lily into a book.

SPONSORSHIP

Queer Horror is a program of the Hollywood Theatre, Portland’s historic movie palace.