Becoming Unstuck
This is the first time I've ever written about my sexuality. It's the first time I've ever processed it through written words.
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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
- 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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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 2, 2020
- 1 min
The Bisexual Agenda - Bisexual Bookworms
As part of Leeds Virtual LGBT+ Literature Festival, one of our organisers joined The Bisexual Agenda podcast to talk about bi+ rep...
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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
- 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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