This year our community hub is in cyberspace. It may not be the same breathy sweatboxes that we’re used to seeing each other in, but we’re creating a world you can visit straight from your homes with many opportunities to gather, chat and cruise.
With chat rooms, a Missed Connections board, a school, a library… this is a virtual gaybourhood of our own. Think Hackers (1996) meets the future of our dreams. 2020 is a different world, but we are still here to connect with all of you, so we learnt to code, and started imagining a new world. We hope you like it.
THE HUB WILL BE GEOBLOCKED TO THE UK
Ask Shaz - 13:00
Thinking of leaving your lockdown lover but don't know how? Wondering what to cook with all that penis pasta you stock pilled in March? Or just fancy a little chat to kick start your Saturday. Well you are in luck as Fringe! fav and all round East London sensation Dr. Sharon Husbands is here to be the agony aunt of your dreams/nightmares/anything in between.
RAW Material- 13:30
Short Film Programme | 91'
Pour yourself a BIG cup of coffee and prepare for a Fringe-tastic sensory trip, that may leave you feeling raw. This collection of experimental shorts from some familiar faces and exciting new voices is the perfect tonic to that Friday night hangover.
CW: Nudity, Un-simulated Sex, Flashing Images and Bodily Harm.
The FATHERS Project- 15:30
dir. Leo Herrera | USA 2020 | 45'
Imagine a world where the AIDS crisis never happened, where would we be? The FATHERS Project is a playful, sexy and heartbreak re-visioning of gay history. What would life be like if Robert Mapplethorpe was the most followed person on instagram, and Keith Haring had a dad bod? Following the film there will be a panel discussion with the film's director Leo Herrera, Marc Thompson from PrEPster and Roberto Tovar from Número de Serie, delving deeper into the project’s thought provoking subject.
CW: Nudity, Light BDSM and Anal Fisting.
Brave New (L) World - 17:15
Short Film Programme | 70'
How does lesbian life feel in 2020? From micro-aggressions and dyke drama, to the connections that make it all so worth it, merge and chill with these sweet and salty short films, blessed with a message from an elder. In partnership with DIVA Magazine.
CW: Discussions of Homophobic Violence and Brief Nudity
Piggy in the Middle - 19:00
Oink! | dir. Rob Eagle | prod. Joao Florencio | editor Liz Rosenfeld | Germany/UK 2020 | 21'
Do you ever feel like a piggy caught in the middle of your sexual desires and a global pandemic? Well… you are not alone. Fringe! is delighted to premiere the steamy short documentary ‘Oink!’, before taking you on a deep dive of how these uncertain times have affected gay sex.
Featuring guest speakers Suzie Krueger (Founder of Hard On and the gone but not forgotten FIST), John Thomas (Multi-award winning Adult Performer and Gogo Dancer) and Dr. Elliot Evans (Lecturer in French Studies, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Birmingham)
CW: Nudity, Light BDSM and Un-Simulated Sex.
Drag Bedtime Stories - 21:00
Once you have had all the queer cinematic magic you little hearts can handle, let some of Fringe’s favourite drag artists send you off to into the land of slumber with some night time tales, sure to make your dreams that little more fabulous.
Saturday's sweet dreams courtesy of drag babe Holestar.
CW: Discussions of Racial Verbal Abuse.
Mapping Kink - 21:15
Short Film Programme | 97'
Kink is political, kink is grizzly, kink is healing, kink is revealing, kink is universal. Breathe into a plethora of alternative fetishisations: from shame to pain, piss to trees, bring an open mind.
CW: Blood, Cutting, Bondage, Domination, Anal Fisting, Punishment and Urine