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09-08-2007 00:13
Get Bent! Manchester's Alternative Community Pride! Coming Out August 2007! Type: Entertainment & Arts - General Description: Manchester's OTHER annual celebration of our large, diverse, creative and empowered Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Genderqueer & Other/Undefined Community, making straight alliances and making waves...
Kaffequeeria, Manchester's Queer Cafe Collective, have put on Get Bent! for the last two years, as a free alternative community pride event and answer to the commercialisation of Manchester Pride.
Get Bent! Get Involved! Get Stuck In August/September 2007!
All kinds of queers, heteros, trans, others, teens, freaks, geeks, gender outlaws, deviants, activists, office workers and the simply curious of all genders and sexualities are very welcome to come along!
The Get Bent! Collective's 2007 Ethos Statement is as follows... * Get Bent is a summer festival celebrating the diversity of queer communities.
* Get Bent is a safe space for all genders and sexualities and seeks to engage with and foster the possibility of creating queer-positive spaces.
* Get Bent challenges the notion that you have to act or dress a certain way to be accepted.
* Get Bent follows a DiY ethic, creating wide variety of programming by supporting diverse people to create diverse events.
* Get Bent provides an alternative to commercial gay spaces by creating a queer autonomous space that is sex-positive without being sex-centered, doesn't depend on alcohol to have a good time, and is unafraid to put the politics back into pride.
* Get Bent fosters a sense of community by being inclusive: all ages, all incomes, all abilities, all ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, regardless of HIV status, those who are comfortable in commercial gay spaces and those who aren't.
* Everyone is welcome to participate in this free celebration of queerness!
GB Collective have weekly meetings @ The Contact Theatre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, check out our website for more info...
http://www.get-bent-manche ster.com
Big Bent Shout Out for ALL Submissions from artists, performers, musicians, bands, artistes, writers, academics, filmmakers, workshop faciliatators, DJ's, venue owners, not-for-profit non-commercial sponsors, youth & community & non-political party groups and organisations, theatre troupes and creatives of all mediums and all kinds!
Get Bent! Manchester's Alternative Community Pride Summer Festival! A Celebration of Queer Diversity! Coming Out! Coming Soon! Coming 24th August - 2nd September 2007!
Office: Manchester Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Questioning/Other/Undefine d Intersex Centre Street: "You're not The Only Gay Outside The Village!", Opposite The Canal Street Mafia! (Joke!)
City: Manchester AKA Madferit Madchester AKA Morrissey's Spiritual Homeland, North West of England, Oop Narth, UK, England
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