Queer Minds is back for its fourth year, bringing together a series of inspiring, thought-provoking conversations celebrating LGBTQ+ lives, culture and creativity.
Queer people have always existed, and we're delighted to honour the defiant joy that has always sustained our community. We're returning to the heart of Soho for a Saturday afternoon of ideas, laughter and conversation.
Join us and a mix of award-winning and emerging authors as we explore the resilience, creativity and identity woven through LGBTQ+ lives and stories.
There will be plenty of time between sessions to continue the conversation, enjoy a drink, meet fellow attendees and get your books signed in the company of fellow readers and queer community.
In partnership with Gay's The Word and 21 Soho.
Event: 13:00 - 18:00
My TV made me gay
For queer people, television is more than just entertainment. It can be a place to escape, to find ourselves, and identify with characters and stories that make us feel seen.
Writer and TV and Film creator, Jamie Windust, is joined by former The Traitors contestant Amanda Collier, Channel 4's LGBTQ+ drama Tip Toe's star, Shakeel Kimotho, and TV critic and author of Out Now, Scott Bryan, to explore how TV shapes us, and why representation matters.
Big Man: In conversation with Dean Atta
Multi-award-winning poet, screenwriter and author, Dean Atta, who collected a BAFTA earlier this year, speaks to spoken word artist Tstarnay about his debut adult novel, Big Man.
The book explores themes of identity, aging, sex, family, and trauma, turning a lens on what it means to age as a queer person.
Saving community
Beloved bar CAMP, which brought hope to the queer community of Margate, has been forced to close its doors.
CAMP was never just a bar, it was a community hub - closing it meant more than the loss of jobs, it meant the loss of a space for people to be themselves, a shield from everything outside it.
Co-founder, Jesse du Preez, sits down with broadcast journalist, Ewan Murrie, to share their experience of what it takes to operate a queer venue, why they matter, and what needs to change to help them survive.
Read queer
Jenny Chamarette will be joining our Read Queer panel, reading from their book, Q is for Garden, which offers a bold and tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine.
We’re delighted the award-winning author, artist, and screenwriter, Dylin Hardcastle, is over from Australia and is attending Queer Minds for a special reading.
His work has been published to critical acclaim internationally and translated into eight languages, and his most recent novel, A Language of Limbs, was hailed as 'an instant queer classic'.
Described as a ‘wildly talented’ new queer writer, Joe Conroy, will be reading from his ‘raw, propulsive and hilarious’ debut novel, In Out.