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What is it all about?
In 2006 the first Queer Festival took place in Copenhagen and this year we do it for the 3. time. For a week artists, musicians, DJs, performers, social and political activists, drag kings, drag queens, and gender benders from many countries will get together and create an alternative to heteronormative culture, politics, and spaces.
During the week we will start up activities, culminating with a day and night program during the weekend.
Who is it for?
The festival is for anyone who takes interest in criticizing and transgressing the prevalent norms governing gender roles and sexual identity. So the festival is a space not only for familiar minorities such as gay men, lesbians, and transsexuals, but everyone who dislikes the rigid division into sexual identities and the categories man and woman.
How to participate
There is no fee for participating. For our guests from outside Copenhagen we provide a place to sleep at the festival venue and food to eat (free or inexpensive) for all activists. We hope to create a real community in the spirit of DIY (do-it-yourself) principles where everybody is both guests and activists.
DIY means we're all doing it
At the Queer Festival we believe in DIY as an organizing principle. Everybody lends a hand. We will hang posters in the café where you can sign up for a couple of hours in the kitchen, the café, cleaning etc.
Furthermore we will have a brief daily meeting at 11.30 (after breakfast) where we coordinate the tasks of the day.
The queer festival wants to create a space where we can/will unfold and explore queer culture, politics and activism.
The main principles of the festival is DIY (do-it-yourself) and non-profit. This means that everybody are actively responsible to the festival and are expected to participate in an active manner. No one will be excluded from activities on the festival because of lack of money. Everybody contributes as they can - practically as well as economically.
The queer festival is a festival for everybody with a queer perspective - regardless of gender or sexuality.
With the festival we want to challenge and make an alternative to the heteronormative culture, politics and space. We don't want to conform into a heteronormative and sexist society. Instead we want to empathize on gender and sexuality as social constructions that can be challenged and altered.
On the festival respectful behavior will be a keyword, and no forms of racism, heterosexism or sexism will be accepted nor tolerated.
