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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
Sep 3, 20234 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 202110 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20201 min read
The Question - A Comic Strip by Gwendoline Barr
A comic strip by Gwendoline Barr
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Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
Aug 2, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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