We’re back this November for our 21st edition, and we’re not coming quietly. Homotopia Festival 2025: UPRISING is a rallying cry. A celebration. A defiant stand.
Uprising means resistance. It means refusing to be silenced. It means showing up loudly, creatively, unapologetically in the face of systems that seek to erase us. And as the UK’s longest-running LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival, Homotopia believes this moment calls for exactly that!
Because uprising doesn’t always start with a megaphone. Sometimes, it starts with a paintbrush. A performance. A protest sign. A drag act in a pub, a zine in a backpack, a story told between friends. It starts right here in Liverpool – a city forged through dissent, solidarity, and working-class organising. It happens right now, in real time, as queer and trans communities resist, reimagine, and rebuild.
This year, we’re platforming the boldest voices; artists, agitators, and visionaries, whose work lives at the intersection of art and activism. From Liverpool and the wider city region to communities across the UK and beyond, we’re spotlighting hyper-local creativity that speaks truth to power.
Expect the unexpected.
This year’s festival will be bursting with art that refuses categorisation, from murals to drag, poetry to protest, join us in Liverpool this November for an unapologetically queer, defiant, grassroots arts festival. Alongside theatre, live art, visual art, film, photography, heritage, workshops, screenings and more, we’re celebrating creativity that is grassroots, intersectional, and gloriously unruly.