Do you want to take part in a photo project celebrating the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool? 👋
Join photographer Ming De Nasty in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool’s city centre through a unique socially engaged photography project; Residents. 📸
LGBTQIA+ people have long gathered in the city centre for safety, community, and self-expression – Residents aims to honour that culture by making their presence visible via public artworks. This project aims to be intergenerational, reflecting the long LGBTQIA+ history of Liverpool and a younger experience of what the LGBTQIA+ scene is today – where people of all ages meet and connect. 👥
If you live in the heart of Liverpool or feel like the city centre is ‘home’ we would love to hear from you! To be part of a major public exhibition celebrating LGBTQIA+ identity, all participants must live within the Liverpool City Region. Your portrait will become part of a public exhibition, displayed across the city centre in a celebration of identity and belonging. ❤️
If you want to join this project, email mingdenasty@gmail.com with subject line “Residents project“. ✉️
Residents is a Socially Engaged Photography project by Ming de Nasty, Open Eye Gallery, Homotopia and LGBTQIA+ community members. Residents is part of the Photo Here programme – a series of 6 residencies with a variety of groups around the Liverpool City Region. Residents is also part of Homotopia Festival 2025.
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At Homotopia, we believe in amplifying the voices, stories, and brilliance of our entire trans community. Your art, activism, stories and lives are essential to our community and our culture.
To our trans sisters: We see you. We love you. We will always stand with you. We will celebrate you. We will make your voices heard.
In solidarity, Board of Trustees, Homotopia. 🏳️⚧️
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🎨 by the incredible Fox Fisher, who we have had the pleasure of hosting as our Artist In Residence for Homotopia Festival in 2020, Fox also mentored as part of our QueerCore programme in 2021, to which he mentored the incredible Dan Chan. Fox is an artist, filmmaker, author and activist.
Book your tickets for a Curator Tour with Duovision`s and Museum of Liverpool to explore The Holly Johnson Story
https://www.homotopia.net/events/curator-tour-the-holly-johnson-story-2/
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A huge thank you to everyone who took part in our inaugural Homotopia Takeover Day @museumofliverpool
The brilliant panellists @gary.needham @monica.b.pearl @thepansyproject @sahirhouse @talesfromthemasquerade
Our awesome Young Homotopia and Queercore and creative responses from @queercumbria @olliep0cket @queerplaces
Our tireless host @marcy_rick
Our creative, inspiring and peerless producers @ashleighowenx @switch.flicker @duovision_arts
On our Homotopia Takeover Day @museumofliverpool on Saturday 5 April, don`t miss @monica.b.pearl in conversation with @gary.needham
Don’t Relax! Culture, Protest, and Music during the AIDS Crisis. Gary Needham will be sharing relfections with veteran @actupny activist and scholar, Dr Monica Pearl, who has written extensively on HIV/AIDS literature, film, theatre, and visual art.
Monica B. Pearl is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Twentieth Century American Literature and Film at the University of Manchester, UK. She has written extensively on AIDS representation, including her book AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss (Routledge). Her most recent publication is a short essay on the UK AIDS TV show It’s a Sin in The European Journal of Cultural Studies. A brief recent account of her experience as a member of ACT UP/New York was also published recently in Radical History Review.
Gary Needham is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. queer, autistic, Scottish – currently writing ‘Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis’ and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on ‘Buddies’ (1985). Gary was part of the harm reduction efforts of SAM (Scottish AIDS Monitor) in the early 90s and came of age, shaped by, the crisis (and popular music).
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Click the link in our bio for the full programme
At the Homotopia Takeover Day @museumofliverpool on Saturday don’t miss a sneak preview of the story of a Liverpool icon
@talesfromthemasquerade brings together @muffydoo100 and @eatmeclub
You’ll be treated to an extract from the forthcoming musical show & Album, TFTM album written by John De Tuite and Pete Rea.
The Masquerade was a small Smokey basement nightclub in the city of Liverpool Dirty and divine full of gay boys and lesbians, sex workers, drag queens, sailors and misfits. Known only to the privileged few Those that the ordinary folk of the city called Degenerates.
Click the link in our bio for times and the full programme 12-4pm
Images courtesy of @talesfromthemasquerade
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📣 Homotopia Takeover Day
📅 Saturday 5 April, 12-4pm
📍 @museumofliverpool
🎫 FREE
As part of The @mrhollyjohnson Story @museumofliverpool, this Saturday we have the first Homotopia Takeover Day. Artists, speakers and performers will be to celebrating and exploring LGBTQI heritage in Liverpool
The full programme is here
Hosted by @marcy_rick
12:00 – Intro by Marcy Rick followed by Young Homotopia provocations – A cabaret piece inspired by the exhibit, with a focus on making love your goal
12:15 – Queer Core, short presentations by @lukedfawcett Grace Tompkins Ollie Adebisi @Bronwyn_Andrews
12:35 – @queercumbria – A performance exploring gender, drawing inspiration from Holly Johnson and the exhibition
Break
13.30 – Don’t Relax! Culture, Protest, and Music during the AIDS Crisis. @monica.b.pearl in conversation with @gary.needham
14:30 – Twenty Years of Homophobia/Transphobia. Artist and founder of @thepansyproject Paul Harfleet hosts a panel reflecting on the last two decades of LGBTQ+ life in Liverpool and discusses the challenges and advancements of the fight against discrimination
15.15 – Break
15.30 – @talesfromthemasquerade @muffydoo100 and @eatmeclub. An extract from the forthcoming musical show & Album, TFTM album written by John De Tuite and Pete Rea. The Masquerade was a small Smokey basement nightclub in the city of Liverpool Dirty and divine full of gay boys and lesbians, sex workers, drag queens, sailors and misfits. Known only to the privileged few Those that the ordinary folk of the city called Degenerates
Programmed by @homotopiafest @switch.flicker @duovision_arts @ashleighowenx
See ya there!
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On Transgender Day of Visibility we remember that visibility brings power and strength, but it’s also a reminder to do more, to be more for those who need it. We need to be protectors and to be the voices that cannot be heard. When the rights of one are diminished we are all weakened 🏳️⚧️
