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#OUR_STORY / Features / Highlights / Text

Louder

TEXT BY: Catriona // UK || ILLUSTRATION BY: Julia Lama // Spain

“I identify with being bisexual, as opposed to pansexual, as I see being bi as being sexually and romantically attracted both to people of a different gender to you and to people of the same gender.”
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Photo Competitions / winners

What Now? All photos & winners

What now? is the theme for this month’s photo competition: We are constantly bombarded with fairly awful news from around the world. Things feel less certain for a lot of people than they did...

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#OUR_STORY / Poetry / Text

A QUEER DILEMMA

TEXT BY: T.M. Brown // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany

“If the theory is true that our formative years are what made us queers – what difference does that”
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#OUR_STORY / Short stories / Text

The Christening

TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany

I broke the uneasy pause which followed, with a statement which boomed throughout the car. ‘But that’s nothing to worry about!’ I said, making a wide gesture as an invitation for tolerance.
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#OUR_STORY / Short stories / Text

If I Should Fall Asleep – CW: Suicide

TEXT BY: Cassia Gaden Gilmartin // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Avital Yomdin // Germany

It’s nine o’clock, evening but not yet night, and the sky is the colour of peaches. Colours, rather. A pinkish red in the high places and yellow nearer the horizon, as if the sun’s split open and leaked all over the sky.
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Photo Competitions / winners

A Glance – All Photos & Winners

See all submissions and vote for your favorite photos. A glance is a first look, a moment when you look over, not sure if you should keep looking. How would you capture a glance in a photo?

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#OUR_STORY / Poetry / Text

HOMOPHOBIC POEM NO. 8

TEXT BY: T.M. Brown // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany

Are Gay People Artistic Because They’re Gay Or Gay Because They’re Artistic?, Either Way It Seems A Strange Conclusion To Reach And To Say The Least Over Simplistic.
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#OUR_STORY / Short stories / Text

In Ireland and in Love

TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Lea Daniel // Ireland

How do you heal a broken heart? Mine had been reduced to shreds by Mairead, an out and proud lesbian I met at work. Mairead, all hoodies and short hair, didn’t take my feelings for her seriously because I’d had two babies
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INTRODUCING / PROPSLIST

TALLINN BEARTY

PROPSLIST | INTRODUCING

Where? Estonia – Harju County – Tallinn
What? Festival of #bearculture

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#OUR_STORY / Features / Text

Frankenstein’s Children: Here Be Monsters And They Are Glorious

text by: Ever Dundas // Scotland || illustration by: tom moore // Germany

I have arrived in the liminality of the monstrous, and I must assure you of my welfare. In actuality, I’ve never felt more safe and welcome in this shifting, uncertain realm. I am confident in the success of my endeavour.
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#OUR_STORY / Short stories / Text

Pixie

text by: Dan Ayres // Germany || illustration by: Renaud Helena // Germany

Paul’s booze-sodden brain was at the beck and call of an indecisive octopus, pulling on levers protruding from the neurological coral that sent his body conflicting messages. Some of these were organic – sensible motions willing him to eat
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#OUR_STORY / Short stories / Text

Dirt

text by: Jane Flett // Germany || illustration by: Nami Nakano // Japan

That was the summer I finally grew into myself, fitting into my skin like a hand in a tight cotton glove. All summer long, I ran my hands across my life, marvelling. I could feel the neat, tucked seams. The stitches.
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#TheGalleryProject / Artist / Visuals

Alex Highet

What? Collages
Where? Northern Ireland || Scotland || Germany
This collection “uppercut/papercut – title withheld” of collages is presented without the title of the piece […]

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#TheGalleryProject / Artist / Visuals

Jane Flett

What? Collages
Where? Scotland || Germany
I started making collages when I moved to Berlin, because in Germany all the supermarket junkmail […]

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#TheGalleryProject / Artist / Visuals

Lita Poliakova

What? Collages
Where? Finland || Germany
Created from restless remains, void-originated, Lita is an intrusive person, yes, she cares! She prettifies […]

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#TheGalleryProject / Artist / Visuals

Melanie Menard

What? Photography, Video, Performance
Where? France || UK
I work across photography, video, digital, and performance. My main interests are the tensions between […]

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#TheGalleryProject / Artist / Visuals

Tom Moore

What? Comics
Where? UK || Germany
I started making comics on a dare with myself. There is a Poem A Day […]

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SOURCES

Film Festivals Denmark

AKS Festival | FILM • ART • DIALOGUE FILM • ART • DIALOGUE Source: www.aksfestival.com/   Forside | MIX Copenhagen MIX COPENHAGEN is ready to spoil you and those you love the most this...

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Film / Film Festivals / SOURCES

LGBT FILM FESTIVALS UK – which one do you like best?

Looking for somewhere to submit your films? Want to watch the lates queer movies? Find all relevant queer film festivals on TQU. Big, small, short-film, feature film, documentary and more. Some self-organized some commercial. See all LGBT film festivals in UK.

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SOURCES

The Hungry Hearts

by Verena Spilker
A while ago I was reading through Jenny Woolworth’s fantastic women in punk blog and stumbled upon The Hungry Hearts, a self titled “multi media pin-up performance band” from Oslo that…

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