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
Love Hub: How Queer is Therapy? (heteronormativity, history, and mental health today) - 18:00
This talk will consist of three panel members discussing How Queer is Therapy? The panel will include an expert talking about the origins or queer roots of psychotherapy; someone talking about the client's perspective (looking for a therapist that matches with you); and the third from the clinician perspective - someone whose clinical experience is working with the queer community. In partnership with Stillpoint Spaces London
Witch, Please! - 19:15
Short Film Programme | 79'
Witchy spells, woodland spirits, apocalyptic visions and a nod to Buffy coalesce in this selection of shorts that take their protagonists on all sorts of otherworldly adventures from New England to Newcastle.
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.
Friday's sweet dreams courtesy of drag babe Baby Lame.
CW: Descriptions of explicit sex and incest.
Opening Up - 21:15
Short Film Programme | 69'
Sexuality is a journey with no final destination, it is all about the ride. In these steaming and thought provoking hot shorts we will show you that the path to fulfilment favours those who are ready to open up and explore.
CW: Unsimulated sex, Light BDSM & Blood