Homotopia Not Homophobia!

This week see’s the start of the 7th Homotopia festival  in the UK’s top northern city of Liverpool.

This  month long festival is designed to  showcases the very  best in Lesbian, Gay Bi and Treans art and culture, which includes  dance, film, cabaret, writing,  poetry,  literature,   and a few exhibitions.

This year for the very first time there is a youth strand in the festival,   called Right To Love,  which promises to offer an interesting insight to the mind of the young.

Other highlights include a reading by leading lesbian author Stella Duffy, the comedy and music night Lavender Girls and the play Mother/Son by Jeffrey Solomon.

The pull of this event is widening,  with a an exhibition in Turku, Finland, while the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Embassy in Ankara are funding research into the possibility of holding a Homotopia festival in Turkey.

Festival director Gary Everett said: “Homotopia offers a veritable smorgasbord of entertainment for everyone of all ages. From the hilarious, outrageous and subversive to the thought-provoking and challenging.  International artists from Italy, Mexico and the US rub shoulders with writers and performers from Wales, Scotland and Liverpool. We are now the only LGBT cultural festival in the north of England – come and find out why.”

Jason Shaw

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