Mark March 3-5, 2017 on your calendar. ClexaCon is coming to Vegas!

What’s ClexaCon? It’s a convention that “brings together queer women from a multitude of fandoms across TV, film, and the web to celebrate our presence in the media.”

ClexaCon is named after the much loved TV couple Clarke and Lexa of The CW’s The 100. You may remember that controversy followed after Lexa was killed off on the show this year. This infamous moment in television history sparked discussions around queer baiting and the Bury Your Gays Trope. It ultimately led to $130,000 being raised for The Trevor Project, which focuses on suicide prevention efforts among LGBT and questioning youth, and many TV writers signing The Lexa Pledge, a commitment to treating LGBT characters more inclusively. 

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The convention will be held at Bally’s and Paris in Las Vegas. VIP packages have already sold out, but three-day and daily passes are still available. 

You can expect a lot of the same staples we’ve all come to love about fan conventions: celebrity guests, panel discussions, an artist alley and yes, costumes are encouraged.

Names to get excited over include fan favorites Gabrielle Christian and Mandy Musgrave of South of Nowhere (2005-2008), Katherine Barrell of the new TV hit Wynonna Earp and wives Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan, who brought us the classic lesbian films The World Unseen (2007) and I Can’t Think Straight (2008). More names are still to come.

“We are a fandom community united by our common love for queer content, our interest in better representation, and our desire for progress and improvement in the media,” reads the ClexaCon website. Now, how can you resist that?

For more info and to purchase tickets, visit www.clexacon.com.