Heath V. Salazar

Panelist: Facing Backlash

Heath V. Salazar (they/them) is an award-winning Latine multidisciplinary performer and writer. Named a ‘prolific trans artist’ by CBC Arts, they’ve crafted their career with a focus on projects that center intersectional forms of queer and trans representation. Their body of work in theatre and film spans the gender spectrum and they’re also the internationally performing drag king: Gay Jesus. They were nominated for LGBTQ Person of the Year by the 2019 Inspire Awards and are currently one of the co-producers of Last Call, the Spanglish short film which won the 24/25 outACTRAto Queer Your Stories contest and is now set to debut this spring at the Inside Out Film Festival. Heath can currently be spotted as Arrow on S2 of CBC & HBO Max’s original series Sort Of and as one of Queer Collective’s OUTLOUD Artists in ‘The Birth of Gay Jesus’ which features their original poetry and sound design.