Join LOOKOUT for our third annual OUTWATCH Fest: a three-day event of empowering conversations, unapologetic joy, and defiant celebrations dedicated to AZ’s LGBTQ+ community.
This year, our theme is The Homecoming, but we're not throwing a traditional homecoming dance. Hell no.
Forget the corsages, the fake crowns, the awkward pep rallies. This homecoming is about reclaiming your space and celebrating the found family you choose to surround yourself with.
How are we doing that? We’re bringing everyone together to sweat, laugh, rage, and celebrate every part of themselves and make some memories along the way.
Check out the full lineup of events below, and get your tickets to the dance party before they sell out.
This year, our theme is The Homecoming, but we're not throwing a traditional homecoming dance. Hell no.
Forget the corsages, the fake crowns, the awkward pep rallies. This homecoming is about reclaiming your space and celebrating the found family you choose to surround yourself with.
How are we doing that? We’re bringing everyone together to sweat, laugh, rage, and celebrate every part of themselves and make some memories along the way.
Check out the full lineup of events below, and get your tickets to the dance party before they sell out.
Lineup
Nov. 7
7-9pm
7-9pm
A Year in Review - FREE
Join us from 7–9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8 for a town hall-style conversation and panel with leading experts from across the state, discussing the state of LGBTQ+ civil rights: what’s at stake, where we are in the fight for equality, and what still needs to be done.
If you’ve spent the whole year wondering how the hell to get involved—or feel like you’re being pulled in too many directions to make a choice—this is your event. It’s part education, part no-bullshit call to action.
We’ll have community orgs ready to sign you up for volunteer or mutual aid work, and show you how to plug into other local efforts that actually make a difference.
For safety reasons, location in Phoenix will be given out the week before the event.
If you’ve spent the whole year wondering how the hell to get involved—or feel like you’re being pulled in too many directions to make a choice—this is your event. It’s part education, part no-bullshit call to action.
We’ll have community orgs ready to sign you up for volunteer or mutual aid work, and show you how to plug into other local efforts that actually make a difference.
For safety reasons, location in Phoenix will be given out the week before the event.
Nov. 8
4-9 pm
4-9 pm
A Night in the Park - FREE
You know what’s a good way to build community? Annihilating your enemies. So we’re hosting a friendly game of kickball followed by a community dinner and a movie. Join local teams, let out all your anger and anxiety out on the competition, and call it therapy.
Sign-ups for the community game start at 4 and end when the game starts at 5 p.m.
Not into kicking balls? We’ve got plenty of community art games where you can flex your competitive streak. Bring your friends or family and snag some big prizes.
When we’re done, we’ll crash in front of the big screen for the campiest, gayest film we’re legally allowed to show in a public park—complete with a picnic dinner.
Nov. 9
1:30-3pm (VIP)
2:30-7 pm
central records
1:30-3pm (VIP)
2:30-7 pm
central records
Homecoming -
$10 early bird till Oct. 31;
$20 afterwards and at the door;
$80 VIP
$10 early bird till Oct. 31;
$20 afterwards and at the door;
$80 VIP
This is the event we’re known for. Every year, we bring the community together to sweat, dance, flaunt our campiest fits, and rack up all the Instagrammable moments. This year’s no different, except we're making it a daytime soiree.
Show up in your best gay gear to enjoy lunch bites, drinks, performances, and a daytime dance event that will make you leave ready to start the week fresh!
For VIP's, we're hosting a fireside chat with LOOKOUT reporter Tori Gantz and Ariz. Sen. Analise Ortiz from 1:30-2:30, where you can also meet other LOOKOUT members, VIP's, and have free food and drink. Afterwards, stick around for performances from Charli Ropes, Indica Onyx and Misty Ivory while Central Records owner Jake Stellarwell spins.
We're also flying in Tommy C (Dance Party, District Eagle) from Washington D.C. to finsih the evening with a set that will melt away your anxieties, recharge your spirit, and feel like home.
If you haven't been plugged into the dance scene, Tommy C. is a Washington DC-based DJ and member of Dance Club, alongside Baronhawk & Joyce Lim. Tommy has worked at Honcho Campout, Ever Afters, and Zap Outdoorz. Tommy was also a founding member or the seminal DC party and queer collective TNX and worked with The Blessed Madonna, Keith Worthy, DJ Harvey, Rich Medina, Maurice Fulton, Martyn, Ciel, DJ Harvey, Jeffrey Sfire and Aaron Clark, to name a few. He's championed bringing talented queer DJs into DC, including Honey Dijon, Horse Meat Disco, Eris Drew, Octo Octa, Honey Soundsystem, DJ Minx, Kim Ann Foxman, DJ Holographic, Gay Marvine, Carlos Souffront, DJ Holographic and Honcho.
Snag your tickets now—this one always sells out.
Show up in your best gay gear to enjoy lunch bites, drinks, performances, and a daytime dance event that will make you leave ready to start the week fresh!
For VIP's, we're hosting a fireside chat with LOOKOUT reporter Tori Gantz and Ariz. Sen. Analise Ortiz from 1:30-2:30, where you can also meet other LOOKOUT members, VIP's, and have free food and drink. Afterwards, stick around for performances from Charli Ropes, Indica Onyx and Misty Ivory while Central Records owner Jake Stellarwell spins.
We're also flying in Tommy C (Dance Party, District Eagle) from Washington D.C. to finsih the evening with a set that will melt away your anxieties, recharge your spirit, and feel like home.
If you haven't been plugged into the dance scene, Tommy C. is a Washington DC-based DJ and member of Dance Club, alongside Baronhawk & Joyce Lim. Tommy has worked at Honcho Campout, Ever Afters, and Zap Outdoorz. Tommy was also a founding member or the seminal DC party and queer collective TNX and worked with The Blessed Madonna, Keith Worthy, DJ Harvey, Rich Medina, Maurice Fulton, Martyn, Ciel, DJ Harvey, Jeffrey Sfire and Aaron Clark, to name a few. He's championed bringing talented queer DJs into DC, including Honey Dijon, Horse Meat Disco, Eris Drew, Octo Octa, Honey Soundsystem, DJ Minx, Kim Ann Foxman, DJ Holographic, Gay Marvine, Carlos Souffront, DJ Holographic and Honcho.
Snag your tickets now—this one always sells out.
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