"The simply divine queerupnorth"
The Guardian

Happening every year in May, queerupnorth International Festival is three weeks bursting with fantastic art and entertainment. This year we feature The Big Gay Read Literature Festival in association with bmi.

The festival is renowned as Europe's leading producer and presenter of queer arts, presenting new lesbian, gay and queer work across the arts, making them accessible to a wider audience.

queerupnorth put Manchester on the map as the UK's premier city for lesbian and gay culture. queerupnorth is synonymous with Manchester and is part of the city's success story as a cultural capital and centre of creative excellence.

"Proving that Manchester has brains to match its balls, queerupnorth returns packed with enterprising art in a myriad of mediums" 
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