In response to a rapidly changing world, we’re exploring and experimenting with ways of “queering” our organisational model and approach to programming. Influenced by Jack Halberstam who suggests “failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world”, we’re re-imagining the role that cultural institutions can play at a local, national and international level. 

We are not here to serve or care for but to work and care with people and communities. We champion lived-experience whilst recognising this often means we are coming together from a place of hurt; that our experiences as LGBTQ+ people are not equal and additional care is necessary. We respect the diversity of our LGBTQ+ communities and the need for safer spaces to hold challenging and difficult conversations as well as those of joy and pride. We have a zero tolerance policy for racism, transphobia or any other form of discrimination. We are acutely aware that as an organisation this is an ongoing process of learning (and un-learning) with no room for complacency. 

We believe LGBTQ+ people have the skills and knowledge to lead change for themselves and our communities. By “programming from within” and sharing knowledge and resources, we’re addressing power imbalances discriminating against us as LGBTQ+ people and building a movement based on principles of trust, care and collectivity.