Queer Festivals by Konstantinos Eleftheriadis

At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants build new forms of sociability and practice anti-binary, inclusive ideas of gender and sexuality. Studying festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen and Oslo, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis asks how far queer is anti-identitarian and how activists experience it at the European level, analyzing festivals as repertoires of collective action and sites for exploring identity.