Where queer professionals unite
Unleashed founder Wesley Smoot Unleashed LGBTQ bringing long roster entertainers, cultural icons and community leaders to Dallas CAROLINE SAVOIE | Contributing Writercarosavoiswriting@gmail.com After four years of planning and an inaugural event thwarted by COVID, Unleashed LGBTQ, “the gay South by Southwest,” is being held at Gilley’s in Dallas Sept.
22-24. With a roster of some of the biggest names in LGBTQ culture, a slate of film screenings and a musical lineup of local artists, the conference aims to bring the queer community together.
While Wesley Smoot, founder of Unleashed LGBTQ, said the first Unleashed conference had to go virtual during the height of the COVID pandemic, its second iteration will be the first live queer business conference in existence.
Smoot said the weekend’s mission was inspired by a gap in the market for queer brands, entertainers and LGBTQ professionals to be in the community. “It takes a unique group of talented, accomplished and empowering voices to come together and bring the Unleashed LGBTQ vision to life.
