The Coast Is Queer Festival

The Coast Is Queer Festival The UK’s Biggest and Brightest LGBTQ+ Literature Festival.
9 – 12 October 2025

🛟 Jackie Kay and Ali Smith 🛟Wow wow wow! The love this evening! Between these two women and for them. The incredible wor...
12/10/2025

🛟 Jackie Kay and Ali Smith 🛟

Wow wow wow! The love this evening! Between these two women and for them. The incredible words and stories. The humour. The strength. The wisdom.

Thank you and Ali Smith. What a treat and an honour!

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🛟🏳️‍⚧️Letter To My Little Trans Self🛟🏳️‍⚧️With ***rdisagreeable Readings followed by inspiring ✨️ in the form of ...
12/10/2025

🛟🏳️‍⚧️Letter To My Little Trans Self🛟🏳️‍⚧️

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Readings followed by inspiring ✨️ in the form of future visioning and and reflections.

"Trans people are the future. Gender doesn’t work."

"Fascism always always loses."
Juno Roche

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🏳‍🌈🛟🏳️‍⚧️ Milling and book signings at Sunday's The Coast is Q***r 🏳‍🌈🛟🏳️‍⚧️ ***r ***rbooks
12/10/2025

🏳‍🌈🛟🏳️‍⚧️ Milling and book signings at Sunday's The Coast is Q***r 🏳‍🌈🛟🏳️‍⚧️

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🛟 Kicking us off 3000 Le****ns Go to York: Film Screening + Q&A - .traies fantastic film about le***an arts festivals in...
12/10/2025

🛟 Kicking us off 3000 Le****ns Go to York: Film Screening + Q&A - .traies fantastic film about le***an arts festivals in York in the 2000s played to a packed and enraptured audience! 🛟


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🛟 A Morning with Damian Barr and Curtis Garner - on The Two Roberts 🛟Kicking off with this brilliant exploration of 's n...
12/10/2025

🛟 A Morning with Damian Barr and Curtis Garner - on The Two Roberts 🛟

Kicking off with this brilliant exploration of 's novel about the lives of Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. Interviewed by ***r_novels

"They grew up in different environments both thinking they were the only one like them. The only one who liked art. The only one who liked boys."

"What could it be about these two working class gay Scotsmen that's not been as beloved in the arts world?"

"You have to read it out loud so you hit the speed bumps your reader will hit. One thing I do is at every level - sentence, paragraph, chapter - ask does the novel need this? Reading out loud is the only way to reveal those things. Maybe it's my background in journalism. I'm very ruthless."

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🛟🏳️‍⚧️ Juno Dawson's Lovely Trans Literary Salon with Munroe Bergdorf 🛟🏳️‍⚧️ Truly lovely, and funny, whilst facing the...
11/10/2025

🛟🏳️‍⚧️ Juno Dawson's Lovely Trans Literary Salon with Munroe Bergdorf 🛟🏳️‍⚧️



Truly lovely, and funny, whilst facing the circumstances we find ourselves in unflinchingly.

"Being able to understand why people do what they do takes the evil out of it. If you see the devil everywhere it controls you. I don't want to be controlled like that." Munroe Bergdorf

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🛟Horrifyingly Q***r!🛟With theodoridou "I think i can to it like most 90s bisexuals through the Goosebumps, Point Horror...
11/10/2025

🛟Horrifyingly Q***r!🛟

With theodoridou

"I think i can to it like most 90s bisexuals through the Goosebumps, Point Horror, Stephen King pipeline... " Heather Parry

"My dad used to read me Greek mythology as a bedtime story, darkness was always present. But I didn't realise I was writing horror" Natalia Theodoridou

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What a conversation between and Yael van der Wouden, who shared insight and experience and her writing process with us....
11/10/2025

What a conversation between and Yael van der Wouden, who shared insight and experience and her writing process with us.

"Where I grew up was beautiful, I've never taken anyone around it who didn't comment on it. But I felt the cage of it. Not just as a q***r kid, but also as a weird girl."

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🛟 This Q***r Arab Family 🛟Important discussions opening up similarities between q***r and immigrant experiences of maki...
11/10/2025

🛟 This Q***r Arab Family 🛟

Important discussions opening up similarities between q***r and immigrant experiences of making new families and home from loss, interconnection with the fight against colonial forces (and for Palestinian and all liberation) and for LGBTQ+ rights, and the disruption q***r Arabs present to the racist conception of Arab culture, as well as the loud sonic world of an Arab family.



Abu Leila

"There's this idea that its good when things are orderly, that's popular with fascists and in general, and order can be good, but the price is loneliness. I'd rather have 10 aunties asking me about marriage than no one asking me anything, even if its difficult." Abu Leila

🛟 Joelle Taylor and Friends 🛟So beautiful. Q***r poetry and story going deep into our relationships and care, our strang...
10/10/2025

🛟 Joelle Taylor and Friends 🛟

So beautiful. Q***r poetry and story going deep into our relationships and care, our strangeness, our grief, our brilliance.

Thanks !

"There's a part of poetry that is gentle it sneaks up on you, and can explode into the most extraordinary ideas" as Joelle said. And yes, yes there is.

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The 2025 Festival Will Take Place At The Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts
Brighton And Hove
BN19RA

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