LGBT+ Lit Fest
Dear fellow British cisgender queers
We are a community, and we should stand shoulder to shoulder with trans people in the face of vile and blatant discrimination. Cisgender que
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jan 26, 2022
- 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
- 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
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
The Importance of an Inclusive LGBT+ History Month
And, just like that, I realised that what I was feeling was an accumulation of frustration, fear and determination. I am in my thirties...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Aug 2, 2020
- 1 min
The Question - A Comic Strip by Gwendoline Barr
A comic strip by Gwendoline Barr
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Love Lost in the Crown
Content warning: covid-19, isolation, swearing A poem by Eli Smith You come to me in packets Of bittersweet bytes A numbing swig of...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Aug 1, 2020
- 4 min
Queer Identity
Content Warning: biphobia, erasure and invisibility of queer identities, erasure and invisibility of disabilities, ableism I couldn’t...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
When Did You Know? - A Comic Strip by Harry-Anne Bentley
Content Warnings: Internalised transphobia, transphobia Mx Harry-Anne Bentley (She/They) is the co-curator of indie comics publisher and...
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 31, 2020
- 3 min
I wish I had robotic hands to write with fierce speed – How I became an LGBTI+ journalist
It wasn't easy to switch to being an LGBTI+ journalist. Where I come from, rulers once labelled LGBTI+ citizens as “worse than dogs and pigs
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
Why Teach About LGBT+ People at a Young Age
Did you just ask yourself “What is a drag queen?” Well let me tell you: I am whatever you want me to be! I can be a fairy, a princess...
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