Europe’s largest queer arts festival – where venerable novelists are found in nightclubs and hip-hop gets turned upside down: where comedy plus jazz equals one dyke legend and we learn why Coronation Street is the queerest show on telly: where the world’s greatest puppeteer will make you laugh or cry with a twitch of his little finger. Over sixty events encompassing theatre, comedy, cabaret, dance, music, clubbing, books, exhibitions and debate. Don’t miss it.

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