Turn up the volume on queer voices with Penguin Pride, a night of awe-inspiring writers, poets and activists, taking over HOME for the first time.

In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a watershed moment for the LGBT rights movement – we’ll be celebrating and reflecting, looking back at how far we’ve come since the summer of 1969, where we are now, and looking forward to voices of the future.

The line up includes:

Toby Campion (MC)
Multi-award-winning poet and playwright Toby Campion has had work featured on BBC Radio 4, E4 and BBC1′ Sunday Politics. Toby is also Director of UniSlam, Resident Artist at the Roundhouse and one of the first resident poets of the River Thames.

Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is an award-winning Yorkshire poet. His new collection Playtime explores the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities.

Paul Flynn
Paul Flynn is an acclaimed arts journalist and columnist for Attitude magazine. His book Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride has been praised as ‘one of the most important books about gay culture in recent times’.

Emma Morgan
Liverpool-based writer Emma Morgan’s debut novel A Love Story for Bewildered Girls has been described as ‘a story about women rescuing themselves and each other’.

Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is a Glasgow-based author whose books include The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers and A Portable Shelter. Her short story collection The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales was awarded the Polari First Book Prize and featured twenty tales of lust and loss, lascivious queens, paper men and island circuses. She’s also co-host of 90s teen horror podcast Teenage Scream.

roo
roo is an LGBTQ+ writer from Yorkshire, whose debut novel is told by a non-binary protagonist. Moving between tragedy and comedy, it explores themes of losing and finding family, life outside the gender binary and how to make the best of being a flawed human in an uncertain world.