Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming platform, and runs educational services for filmmakers in Los Angeles.

[1] In 1979, John Ramirez and Stuart Timmons, two students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), founded a gay film festival on campus.

[6] In 2005 UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest teamed up to save movies and videos made by LGBTQ people.

[8] In September 2016, Outfest held its first traveling film festival in Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Academy of Music Theatre.

[9] In 2019 the executives of the Outfest film festival decided it was time for a change in location once the Directors Guild of America began renovating.