Black Like That Community Festival
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 14:00 -
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 21:00
Event duration 7 hours
Elevated VIP:
USD 135.23
General Admission:
USD 33.85
Sections:
USD 535.38
About Black Like That Community Festival
Come experience the beauty at every intersection of Blackness and LGBT with a celebration in community, with community, for community.
Black Like That is a bold, vibrant community festival produced by The Normal Anomaly Initiative, Inc., in partnership with Pride Houston 365. It’s a cultural celebration rooted in Black and queer excellence — proudly visible, proudly joyful, and unapologetically itself.
Black Like That is the evolved form of the beloved Black Queer AF Music Festival (BQAF), now reimagined with a renewed focus on community, culture, and celebration. The event centers the voices, stories, and brilliance of Black LGBTQ+ culture while creating space for collective joy, creativity, and connection.
The 2026 theme is “We Ain’t Going Nowhere.” It’s both a celebration and a declaration — a statement of resilience as The Normal Anomaly Initiative marks its fifth anniversary amid ongoing challenges to Black and queer communities.
Black Like That is an inclusive space for every race, color, identity, and sexuality, but this year centers women of all experiences — including Black and Brown women, queer women, trans women, cis women, and allies — highlighting their influence across music, fashion, comedy, entrepreneurship, and more.
What to Expect:
Live performances from local and national LGBTQ+ artists
Spaces for community celebration, storytelling, and cultural expression
Opportunities for artists, vendors, and community partners to participate and showcase work
A festival experience that honors the legacy of LGBTQ+ liberation — fittingly scheduled near the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising — and continues that work in the present.
Events Schedule
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 14:00
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 21:00
Event Categories
Cultural Celebrations
Local Festivals
Entertainment Events
The Normal Anomaly Initiative, Inc.
https://www.normalanomaly.org/
2310 Arbor Street
A regional organization serving thousands of Black, queer people across the Southern United States. The Normal Anomaly Initiative is Houston’s premiere Black LGBTQ+ organization, fully emerging in 2018 into a nonprofit incubator at The Montrose Center in Houston, Texas. Starting as a grassroots movement in 2016 focusing on digital storytelling, The Normal Anomaly has understood the need to express our narratives honestly and innovatively while changing our stories to collective resourcing and community empowerment. Before receiving our nonprofit status, we had the privilege of our work being featured on Amazon Prime Video and working with social media departments at the United States Conference on AIDS and Logo/NewNowNext. Since receiving our nonprofit status, we have impacted the lives of thousands of people through direct services, capacity building, research, technical assistance, and advocacy programs. In this, we have the honor of being the first Black LGBTQ+ organization to be Houston’s Pride Honorary Grand Marshal and the Greater Houston LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s Nonprofit Member of the Year while also being featured on The Jennifer Hudson Show in which we received a GLAAD Media Award for our appearance and in Lil Nas X’s ‘Baby Registry.’ Because of our historical connection to media and our current place in changing the lives and experiences of our community, we merge these two worlds for maximum impact and narrative change.