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Thank you to everyone for creating a wonderful space for all! 

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I had an amazing time at queer spirit. Would definitely return! 

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There is not a moment I would not relive..it was such a wonderful time... thank you all

Queer Spirit - More than a festival...

Our Queer Spirit website is a place for information about our festival but also about us as a community.

Queer Spirit is the synergy formed by bringing together many views, experiences, beliefs, philosophies and ways of being that have queerness, community and spirituality at their core. It is a cauldron of queer vitality connecting the worlds, exploring energy, nature & love.

We aim to provide ways for LGBTQIA+ people to explore spirituality, healing and personal development, and we celebrate the creative and spiritual gifts that the queer tribes bring to humanity.

Aims

  1. To create gatherings of the queer-spirited tribes that are safe spaces free from homophobia, heterosexism and any other form of discrimination or abuse.
  2. To build a community that celebrates the indomitable spirit of LGBTQI+ people.
  3. To support and sustain, and to provide safe places to explore the spirituality of LGBTQI+ people, and to build bridges and understanding between LGBTQI+ spiritual and religious groups.
  4. To create places to help reduce the isolation of, and the discrimination against, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and intersex people, and all other people whose sexual or gender identity makes them liable to such isolation and discrimination.
  5. To provide events, workshops and entertainments that are relevant and interesting to the Queer communty, in particular in areas where little exists, and where LGBTQI+ people are geographically or culturally isolated or dependent on pubs and clubs for social contact.
  6. To make the organisation accessible to all LGBTQI+ people, regardless of location, race, colour, culture, class, religion, age, disability or gender, and to set up alliances with non-LGBTQI+ people who support our aims and wish to work with us.

Objectives

Towards these AIMS the group will:

  1. Network with individuals and groups who support the aims of Queer Spirit. Support them to challenge homophobia and to build their own events.
  2. Organise events for the purposes of mutual support, sharing of ideas and information, celebrating the lives and achievements of LGBTQI+ people, now and in the past, and breaking down isolation.
  3. Keep a contact list and ensure the privacy of this list.

  

The Queer Spirit ethos  

  

Festival

Queer Spirit festival is a gathering place for spiritually minded LGBTQ+ people and our allies from all races, all genders, all sexualities, all ages. 750 people attended the fifth Queer Spirit Festival in 2024 for 4 days of workshops, ceremonies, fire circles, performances, djs and communion with nature and queer community. We set out to be inclusive, intersectional and intergenerational – to celebrate the creativity, healing gifts and natural magic of Queer people from all cultures of planet Earth. Queer Spirit is a cauldron of self-discovery and community growth. Come with open mind and with the willingness to open your heart – Queer Spirit will take you through the veils to the place of LOVE.

Since its inception Queer Spirit has had Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity embedded at the heart of its ethos.  We consider ourselves to operate from a Premise of Oneness, where our common humanity and inherent worth and worthiness are at the forefront of our hearts, but this does not come at the price of denying or ignoring our diversity and cultural experiences. Core organisers are encouraged to have ongoing self-reflection on our prejudices, including racism and xenophobia, and conversations around racial inclusion, decolonisation, and intersectionality are integral to our planning process.

We have a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of discrimination at the festival. Regarding Cultural Appropriation, we are explicitly against the exploitation of Global Majority cultures by privileged groups. We aim to celebrate cultural diversity authentically and ensure that practices are shared by those with the cultural authority to do so. Alongside this we maintain a nuanced approach, recognizing the complexity and ever-evolving status of this issue.

We hope and believe that Queer Spirit stands up for and highlights the spiritual nature of queer people from all cultures, and that it celebrates and learns from the many cultures around the world that saw queerness as a spiritual trait, not simply a sexuality or gender-related one. 

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