The Coast is Queer

The UK's biggest and brightest LGBTQ+ literature festival at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts.

Thu, 9 Oct 2025 – Sun, 12 Oct 2025 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts Book tickets
2024 promotional image for The Coast is Queer, featuring various LGBTQ+ writers and performers.
Image credit: diva-magazine.com

Established in 2019, The Coast is Queer is an absolutely jam-packed festival celebrating LGBTQ+ literature, bringing together queer authors, readers and allies through a weekend of workshops and conversations, championing the stories and story-tellers giving voice to our community. 

Frankly, the itinerary is just phenomenal - from dissecting the power of zines, contemplating the power of memory, truth and fiction in memoir, to conscientiously exploring contemporary issues around the ongoing suppression of LGBTQ+ stories worldwide. The Coast is Queer is a valuable and rich commemoration of the power of queer community, documentation and representation. 

Venue details

Address:
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
University of Sussex
Brighton and Hove
BN1 9RA
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