Annual Festival Queerfest in St. Petersburg, Russia

23 september 3 october 2021

Queerfest

Queerfest is a Russian pride festival, where everyone can be themselves. Here, no one will be surprised by your gender expression, name and gender of partners (or even their number!).

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We unite LGBT people from Russia and CIS countries to show ourselves and the whole society: we are different, we are strong, we are here. And we deserve a better life and equal rights.

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Theme of Queerfest

Strength within

We offer to talk about our resources and about the inner support that helps us not to give up and be who we are when it seems that the world is against us.

We propose to approach the topic “Strength Within” from three different levels:

— at the individual level;

— at the community level;

— and at the level of society (post-Soviet in general and Russian in particular).

How to realize your strength? Where and how to find it when it’s in short supply? What gives it and what takes it away, and how to find a balance in these processes? Let's look for answers together.

Line up

24/09 - 03/10	Photo exhibition "Transition"
24/09	Presentation of the photo exhibition "Transition". Conversation with photographer Oleg Ponomarev and the heroes of the project public talk	Register
25/09	“Non-female” professions: myths, social beliefs and ways of development discussion	Register
	Solo stand-up by Pasha Zalutsky	Tickets
26/09	Cultural activism: art, fashion and media in the fight for human rights discussion	Register
02/10	"You can't be one to unite": how has the gay community changed over the past 20 years and is it there today? discussion	Register
03/10	Closing of the festival	Tickets

open space

26/09	Action! Street LGBT activism from the 1990s to the present day lecture	Register
27/09	Educational quiz about transgender people lecture	Register
28/09	"Invisible families" play	Register
29/09	Power within the community: bi/pan/polysexual people about personal experience BI-talk	Register
30/09	Past and present of Russian Queer Poetry: how does personal become political? lecture	Register
01/10	Sound "POLE" concert and discussion	Register

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headliner of the festival

хэдлайнер фестиваля

My Michelle

Get ready for the performance of a band, which plays a cunning dance pop, gentle, bold and unprincipled, with an affectionate magnetic voice of Tanya Tkachuk. Come to hear My Michelle live and plunge into love and space!

Ira Novik

a social journalist, author of Wonderzine, Vogue, and Takie Dela. The heroes of Ira's texts are people from the entire LGBTQ+ community. At the festival, she moderates a discussion about "non-female professions"

Федя Фетисов

блогер, ведет канал russiaforgays в инстаграме, TikTok и Telegram. На Квирфесте участвует в дискуссии о современном российском гей-сообществе

Renat Davletgildeev

a journalist, activist, deputy editor-in-chief of the Snob project, author of "Gay and Dynamite" Telegram-channel. At Queerfest, he engages in a discussion about culture and activism

Екатерина Артемьева

HR-консультант, управляющий партнер в компании по мобильной разработке, ведёт карьерные консультации и помогает разным бизнесам имплементировать инклюзивную корпоративную культуру. На фестивале участвует в дискуссии о «неженских профессиях»

Олег Пономарев

фотограф, лауреат премии World Press Photo. На Квирфесте представляет проект «Переход»

Сева Галкин

московский кинорежиссер, продюсер и фотограф. Интересуется вопросами идентичности, сексуальности и мужественности в современной России. На Квирфесте участвует в дискуссии о современном российском гей-сообществе

Elena Lysenko-Saltykova

the first driver of an electric train for suburban and regional communication, a participant in the discussion about "non-female professions"

Igor Sinelnikov

a gay activist, coordinator of the Development of Activists program at the Action Community Center, host of the Radical Gay Telegram channel, participant in a discussion about the contemporary Russian gay community, and host of an event about the history of street actions

Руслан Саволайнен

ЛГБТ-активист, директор ЛГБТ-группы «Выход». На Квирфесте участвует в дискуссии о современном российском гей-сообществе

Паша Залуцкий

Участник шоу «Женский стендап» на ТНТ, «Лучший комик» Киевского и Одесского фестивалей стендап-комедии, Гран-При фестиваля «Инди-Комики». Открытый гей, сделавший каминг-аут на федеральном канале. На фестивале выступит с сольным стендапом

Vasily Volchok-Rusakovich

a founder of the Volchok brand. At Queerfest he takes part in a discussion about culture and activism

Sasha Rakhmanov

an LGBT* blogger writes about relationships, LGBT* sex, and equality. At the festival, he takes part in a discussion about the contemporary Russian gay community

Катя Овсянникова

директор благотворительного учреждения «Хоспис на дому», участница дискуссии о «неженских профессиях»

Александр Бланарь

арт-консультант, куратор, журналист. На Квирфесте участвует в дискуссии о культуре и активизме

World Press Photo 2021, project «Transition»

photographer
Oleg Ponomarev

A person who decides to make the transition and does not face stigmatization, violence, breaking ties with parents and friends is an exception. Often, they are forced to go through not only bodily suffering and moral stress, but also to fight with fear, condemnation, and feelings of guilt. The stories of the heroes are not stories of the struggle for the rights of some particular community, but the stories of the struggle for the basic human right - for the right to be.

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