LGBT+ Lit Fest
Rebranding to "LGBT+ Lit Fest"
We are rebranding! As we have grown over the last few years, we’ve realised it’s time to update our name to LGBT+ Lit Fest...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Mar 19
- 2 min
"Straight Passing"
This poem is about how I feel in response to bi-erasure, both in the cis-het community and the LGBT one.
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jan 26
- 4 min
Epiphany of a Bibliophile
I felt sad that my friend was uncomfortable sharing their book selection with me, for fear of being judged for it, but I was also recognisin
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Nov 30, 2021
- 8 min
Creating a Consent Culture
“Being in queer spaces with codes of conduct have helped me understand that I have the right to say no to any type of physical contact that
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Nov 5, 2021
- 5 min
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s poor bi+ representation
Such onscreen adaptations continue to erase and poorly write bi+ characters, playing to harmful stereotypes (just give us a bi who can’t si
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Oct 10, 2021
- 2 min
Anxiety: A Snake Coiled Around my Chest
This poem is how I was experiencing anxiety at that time. The act of writing these feelings down, on focusing on the physical aspects...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
How Books Helped Me Grow Into a Bisexual Bibliophile
I turned the pages as I progressed through life, first overcoming my fear of being different, and subsequently accepting my bisexuality and
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
Bimisogyny and What it Means
Very little discourse exists about bimisogyny – the intersection of misogyny and biphobia, which not only affects the lives of bisexual w...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
Why do we need LGBT+ literature festivals?
There are so many layers to our identities in terms of gender and sexuality, and seeing other people who don’t fit within that cis-heteronor
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 11, 2021
- 3 min
Book28 Library - Why we made a Queer Library
Section 28 has cast a long shadow in the way local councils handle LGBTIQ+ issues, and libraries are a part of this. Book28 are working to
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 11, 2021
- 6 min
Representations Of Celebratory Queerness In Cinema
Real-life queer stories are filled with the joys of life, the excitement of a new romance, the comfort of finding acceptance, the inner-stre
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
Trans Erotica
Now Trans Erotica, written by and about Trans People, says that sex is a many splendid thing, and through its different forms kindly and kin
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 9, 2021
- 10 min
The Importance of LGBTQ+ Characters in YA Literature
Representation is an opportunity for all of you to be seen, and shown, and heard and recognised. It’s all of you; not just the asexual or qu
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
How Literature Helps Bridge the Gap Between the Deaf and LGBTQIA+ Communities
Being LGBTQIA+ has never been easy, and even in today’s progressive climate, it’s still difficult. However, if you’re juggling two separate
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 7, 2021
- 4 min
I Blame The Internet
I found spaces where people felt the same as me. Being a fan led me to where I was honoured by people sharing their authentic selves and th
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Trans Masc Problems
Maxwell Hunter, a Trans Artist/illustrator, created this comic strip on some "Trans Masc Problems"
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 6, 2021
- 5 min
AIDS Archives: Black, Gay Writers and Reagan’s America
Through their writing Beam, Hemphill and Saint captured not only the trauma and violence of the early years of AIDS, but also the heat and j
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Understanding Demisexuality
In October 2019 I came across a tweet that revealed that I was demisexual. That there was a term to describe how I identified sexually. ...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 5, 2021
- 6 min
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Asexuality in Classical Myths
I didn’t identify as asexual until my late 30s; I didn’t have the words. In the early ‘90s no one was talking about asexuality.
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 5, 2021
- 5 min
The Rise – and Rise – of the Community Bookshop
Community bookshops have been an anchor point, a consistent boon I’ve sought out in whichever place I’m living in at the time...
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