And the QueerX and Visibility Award Winners are…
The QueerX Awards brought to you by Lexus premiered October 11, 2021 for National Coming Out Day on Revry.
The streaming special was the grand finale to the month-long international film festival competition, QueerX, and featured hosts Drew Droege and Raneir Pollard along with presenters Dwyane and Zaya Wade, Steven Canals, Peaches Christ, and Patton Oswalt.
Watch the Queer X awards exclusively on Revry.
Queer X Film Festival Winners
Best Drama
The Change Up
Dir. Jordan Auten
Best Feature
Don Filipo
Dir. Tim Munoz
Best Music Video
"Full Mood"
By Sarah Mary Chadwick , Dir. Tristan Scott-Behrends
Best Documentary
Dennis: The Man Who Legalized Cannabis
Dir. Brandon Moore
Best Comedy
Flex
Dir. Matt Porter
Revry Visibility Award Winners 2021
Emmy-nominated writer and producer (Pose) Our Lady J presented the award to Emmy nominated actress and musician, Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez:
“I hope that you younger generations out there never let anyone tell you who you are, try to deter you. And keep being inspired, inspire, and keep creating as much as you can, because the creativity that you harbor, changes the world,” said Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez.
NBA star Dwyane Wade and his daughter Zaya Wade presented to WNBA star Erica Wheeler.
“You use your voice to lift and bring awareness to the LGBTQ community and I could not be more proud that you are getting this award,” said Zaya Wade. “I can't explain how much this means to me. Being a Black woman epresenting the Queer community and then being on a platform where the world...the basketball world highlight women to just be great,” said WNBA star Erica Wheeler,
Drag Icon Peaches Christ presented to Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
“My book recently came out and so did I!” “I encourage everybody who is able to come out, your friends...all the people that love you will of course stick by you,” said Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark.
Patton Oswalt presented to Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang,.
“I’m so happy you got this award. You have now joined the ranks of people like Dan Akroyd, Kristen Wiig, Will Farrell, Phil Hartman..you can be the center of any sketch and completely own it,” said Patton Oswalt. “‘I am in all earnestness thinking a lot about how important visibility is as a community to put ourselves out there.” Please all of you spend as much time as you can being visible,” said Bowen Yang
