Get ready to sparkle, strut, and serve with your truest self — Dragfort is stomping its way back into Treefort with more glitz, glam, and glorious queer joy than ever before.
Join us as we celebrate the magic, artistry, and unapologetic brilliance of LGBTQIA+ culture, one gag-worthy moment at a time!
This year, we’re serving some OG Dragfort realness along with fort crossover events, a brand new Drag Happy Hour, and soooo much more. Start your fest with Hella Queer, Hella Here, a Queer Meet up, shake that bootay at Corevette Collective’s Femme Forward Dance Class, scream and toss those singles at the best Drag Brunch you’ve ever been to, plus a crazy night of Queens, Kings, and Drama at The Balcony!
We aim to create safe spaces to acknowledge, affirm, and support queer people across the spectrum. Come express yourself how you know best, and experience the pure unadulterated joy of Dragfort!
All Dragfort events are included in a 1-day or 5-day Festival Pass!
GET DRAGGED with King Molasses + Aja
Hosted by Miz Wafer, get ready to GET DRAAAAAAAGED Thursday, March 25th at The Balcony. Headliners King Molasses and Aja will be glitter soaked, sweaty, and werkin 4 u! Plus loads of local drag talent, so get those fans ready to clackkkkkkk!
C U cuties @ The Balcony on Thursday, March 25th
Big Gay Happy Hour Drag Show: Dragfort + Alefort
It’s Drag O’clock somewhere! 🍸
Dragfort is coming to juice up Alefort with a Happy Hour drag show—a dangerous cocktail of glamour, comedy, and drag mayhem!
Pregame your Friday of Treefort with colorful performances and drinks that go down just a little too easy.. so come thirsty and get ready to sip and tip your way to a gay ol’ time.
Hosted by the realness Diana Cain!
PLUS come early for a happy hour surprise you’re not gonna wanna miss 😉 @ Alefort on Friday, March 27th!
Femme Forward @ Treefort Music Hall: Dragfort + Yogafort with Corevette Collective
Unlock and embrace your femme power in this high energy dance class led by the founders of Pink Runway—Corevette Collective 🌸
Open to all experience levels, Femme Forward is an embracing, judgement free zone centered on authentic self expression and community support.
If you want to feel yourself, if you want to be seen, if you’re looking to connect with fellow magical creatures, then get your a$$ to class and let’s party!
See you at JUMP Saturday, March 28th.
It’s Brunch, B*tch: Dragfort + Alefort
Alefort is the place to be on Sunday morning- cuz it’s BRUNCH B*TCH! 🥂
Your favorite brunch drag show is back, full of beer, laughs, and more than a few surprises. Grab your singles and start your final day of Treefort the way it should be–loud, proud and filled with DRAG!
Hosted by Diana Cain & Cyraphina Thunderpussy @ Alefort on Sunday, March 29th.
Drool over some of our Dragfort 2026 Performers
KING MOLASSES
King Molasses is an award-winning Nigerian-American drag king, creative producer, and performing artist based in Washington DC. They are most known as the winner of the televised competition series, King of Drag. Molasses was named on the 2025 Out100 list, honoring the nation’s most impactful LGBTQ+ innovators, leaders, and creators by Out Magazine.
Debuting in 2018, Molasses was first inspired by black drag kings in DC’s historically gay neighborhoods. They have since garnered international acclaim for their live performances and thoughtful approach to movement, pushing the art form of lip synchronization into a transformational practice of Black surrealism and a vulnerability, “radiating grief, tenderness, and pride.”
Their work has been commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian, and they are a principal performer in Sasha Velour’s acclaimed NYC drag revue, NightGowns. Molasses has been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, and NPR.
AJA
Venus Nadya, professionally known as Aja, is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist, burlesque performer, DJ, and cultural leader from Brooklyn, New York. Rising to prominence through RuPaul’s Drag Race, All Stars, and Legendary, she has built a career that extends far beyond television, earning recognition as one of the few Drag Race alumni to achieve sustained mainstream success across music, performance, and cultural advocacy.
Aja is a critically acclaimed recording artist whose work has been praised by Forbes, Rolling Stone, and Billboard for its sharp lyricism, distinctive flow, and cultural impact.
Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in ballroom culture. Venus began walking Kiki balls in New York City in 2006, and in 2025 was deemed Legendary in the mainstream ballroom scene for Runway. She is a member of the iconic House of Miyake-Mugler. These foundations inform her work, which centers visibility, embodied storytelling, and the lived experience of Black and Latino trans communities.
Currently, her creative focus is on burlesque, being a showgirl and DJing, where she creates immersive, audience-driven experiences shaped by nightlife, fashion, and community.
DIANA CAIN
Derived through dimensions of disorder and dynamite, this dramatized doll of drag dawns on this, the devilishly awaited date.
This diabolic Dionysus of the night will descend upon you, designed to the damned and deliciously diagnose the delusional. A dynamo of daring, dancing delirium one draped in the dermal of Denimm and dessert.
So let me simply add that I’m deeply please to meet you and you may call me, Diana.
