First ever Live QUEER Business ConferencE + Festival

CREATING A SPACE FOR BRANDS, ENTERTAINERS, & LGBTQ+ PROFESSIONALS TO CONNECT

2025 guest speakers/panelists

JOHN WATERS, KELLEY ROBINSON, DANIEL FRANZASE, CARMEN CARRERA, KENNEDY DAVENPORT, BRAD PRITCHETT, & MORE

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PAST SPEAKERS, PANELIST, PERFORMERS

UNLEASHED FOUNDER Wesley Smoot & JOHN WATERS
ANTONI POROWSKI | QUEER EYE | NETFLIX
INDYA MOORE | POSE | FX
Future of LGBTQ+ Media with Jay Roecker, Michel J Pelletier, & Leo Cusimano
JAYMES BLACK | CEO | THE TREVOR PROJECT
BILLY EICHNER | BROS | UNIVERSAL PICTURES
DYLLÓN BURNSIDE | POSE | FX
CHAD MANTOOTH & LEO CASIMANO | DALLAS VOICE
STEVEN ROMO | NEWS CORRESPONDENCE | NBC
DANIEL FRAZESE | MEAN GIRLS | PARAMOUNT
ANOTONI POROWSKI
ASHLEE KEATING | POP MUSICIAN
APOLLO BAKOPOULOS | ALIGNED
CHIRU ADAMS | DRAG LATINA | REVRY
ZACH HERRIN | NASCAR DRIVER
MELODÍA GUTIÉRREZ & RACHEL GONZALES | HRC
KING FERDINAND LOVE | TALKING JUST 2 TALK PODCAST
ANDY VALLENTINE & NICO TORTORELLA | THE MATTTACHINE FAMILY
DANIEL WEBB | COMEDIAN | COMEDY CENTRAL
MELISSA GROVE | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT | LEGACY CARES
WESSLEY SMOOT & DANIEL FRANZASE
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Naomi Green, MBA (Crushing Limits) & Indya Moore (Emmy Award-Winning Show Pose, FX)

Out Magazine’s Stephen Walker & Antoni Porowski (Emmy Award-Winning Show Queer Eye) Live Cooking Demonstration

Jayzen Patria (Lead with your Brand) & Billy Eichner (Bros/Universal Pictures, Lion King/Disney)

Stephen Walker (OUT Magazine) and Daniel Franzase (Mean Girls, Universal Pictures)

Family Equality CEO, Stacey Stevenson

Gary Sanchez (Visit Dallas) & Brian Sims (Former Penn. State Representative, Managing Director Out Leadership)

Journalist/TV Personality, Shane Allen & Dr. Carlton M.D. (Gastrointestinal Physician, Consultant to White House & CDC)

Naomi Green, MBA

Matt Skallerud Founder/CEO Pink Media Marketing

Timothy Bardlavens Product Executive, Cultural Strategist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) specialist at Adobe

Jayzen Patria | Lead with Your Brand

Nico Tortorella (Walking Dead, AMC), Andy Vallentine (Filmmaker, The Mattachine Family), Arnold Wayne Jones (Jounalist, Film Critic)

Openly Gay NASCAR Driver Zach Herrin and Journalist Alex Gonzalez

Future of LGBTQ+ Media Panel- Jay Roecker (iHeart Media), Michel J Pelletier (equalpride media), Leo Cusimano (Dallas Voice), Marie Adélina de la Ferrière, (Pride.com)

Antoni Porowski | Netflix - Queer Eye

Dyllón Burnside (Emmy Award-Winning Show, POSE) with TV Personality/Journalist Shane Allen

The Real Housewives of Dallas Star, LeeAnne Locken & Fashion Corespondent Steve Kemble

Filmmaker: Apollo Bakopoulos & Actors Dimitris Fritzelas & Nick Atkinson— Winner of Best Foreign Film: Aligned

DEI Consultant, Speaker, & Author of Empowering Differences, Ashley Brundage

Unleashed LGBTQ+ Founder/CEO, Wesley Smoot with Dallas Deputy Mayor, Carolyn King Arnold— Ribbon Cutting

Brian Sims, Michel j Pelletier, Wesley Smoot, Dr. Carlton

Indya Moore & Wesley Smoot

LaMecia Butler (Program Manager for Meta Global Supplier Diversity), Abby Stason (Author of Evolution Revolution: Conscious Leadership In An Information Age), Graham Nolan, Logan Wick, MBA