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Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag

Little Echo Productions

Drag, Film, Performance Art, Visual Arts

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You've heard of Amish country. Bet you didn't expect drag queens.

An award-winning documentary, a photo exhibition celebrating rural LGBTQ+ life, and a homegrown drag show converge in one unforgettable night.

Amish Country Queer is a film about Lancaster's queer nightlife and drag culture, and a story about what it means to be visibly, joyfully, unapologetically queer in a place the world told you wasn't built for you.

Tulle Queer is an ongoing portrait series by trans artist Brady Pappas that honors the queer icons of the 717 region. Using tulle as a recurring visual motif, the project creates a vibrant, community-rooted celebration of visibility and resilience.

The Angel Hour is Lancaster's second-longest-running drag show, celebrating five years of glamour and sisterhood, created by Charlize Angelz.

This is a night of celebration. Of queer bodies, queer lives, and queer autonomy. Of breaking the binaries and changing the narratives we've been handed about where we can live, whom we can love, and who we can be. Queerness has never been confined to city limits, and this night proves it.

And this is where the future gets made. Not at the center, but at the fringes.

Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag is presented by Little Echo Productions and co-presented by cinéSPEAK.
Details
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $25

PWYC Options $5+

Venue: Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater

Dates: September 17, 2026

September 17, 2026 5.00pm

1219 Vine Street

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

September 17, 2026 7.00pm

1219 Vine Street

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options


About the Artist

Little Echo Productions is the independent film company of Colleen C Brady, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who loves to find extraordinary stories in ordinary places. Drawn to underrepresented suburban and rural communities, their work is quietly radical, life-affirming, and conversation-starting. Their debut feature, Firebird: Built to Burn (2023), won five festival awards and is now streaming on Prime Video and Apple TV. Their follow-up short, Amish Country Queer (2024), has won three Best Documentary awards and serves as the proof of concept for an upcoming feature, currently in post-production.

  • Colleen C Brady Film Director ColleenCBrady@gmail.com
    Brady Pappas
    Artist & Subject brady@bradypappas.photography
    Charlize Angelz
    Drag Artist Charlize.mf.angelz@gmail.com
    Sarah Mueller
    cinéSPEAK Co-Presenter sarah@cinespeak.org

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 18+

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Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn


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