Tag! Queer Shorts Festival

Division/Clinton

Editor's Pick

When

Apr. 11–12, 2026

Daily, Times vary

Cost: Starting at $15.00

Where

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St
Portland, OR 97202

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

The 2026 edition of Tag! Queer Shorts Festival lights up the Clinton Street Theater with rainbow colors, with an all-new program of 39 original short films made exclusively by queer and trans directors. The theme “Get Up!” borrows a term from the world of street art to describe the act of getting your work into the most conspicuous and least accessible places possible. It’s an invitation to queer communities to be visible and creative under challenging conditions.

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Joshua Tree (Part 2)

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Kokuhaku

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CrashPadSeries

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One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne

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This year’s program offers four thematic blocks of curated shorts with Q&A time with directors in attendance. The festival opens with The Heaven Spot, featuring an honest look at both affirming and disappointing interactions within queer spaces. The adults-only Get Up, Get Off! program marks the return of explicit content to the Tag! screen with a selection of decidedly non-binary romps. The Queer Styles program gives audiences a peek at the full range of genres submitted each year, including animation, music video, spoken word, horror, comedy, and documentary. The festival ends with Tagging Cascadia, a celebration of films by Pacific Northwest directors and actors, featuring some of Portland’s most prolific queer short filmmakers.