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festival and gathering started in 1998 where alternative/radical/disenfranchised

s can exchange information, network, organize, inspire and get inspired, self-represent, and challenge mainstream society with do-it-yourself (

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ists, and other entertainment are put on at night, while workshops and demonstrations take place during the daytime. Queeruption generally takes place in a different city in a different country every year. It has contributed to anarcho-queer (queer anarchist) movements. The groups that organize each event and even within the same city may have disagreements about how aspects should represent politics including queer

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History

The first Queeruption was held in London in 1998 by a network of radical queer anarchists. According to the 2004 Queeruption Zine, the first Queeruption started with several queer activists in London squatting in a building one weekend with the goal of a "politically inspiring and educational gathering.""Queeruption InfoZine."
Athen and Fiscious. ''Queeruption VI,'' January 2004. This squatting and gathering of queer anarchists was the result of gentrification in a neighborhood in South London. This same zine states that the first Queeruption was in the Spring of 1998, however an article from Bi Community News in 1998 conflates this, determining that the first one occurred in a weekend in September. According to this same article from Bi Community News, the first Queeruption in London involved many different performances and presentations from various personalities and acts such as the performance artist The Divine David, bisexual writer Charlotte Cooper, queercore band Mouthfull, artist

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, and playwright Marissa Carr. Although framed as a festival, Queeruptions' main purpose is community acitivism and outreach within queer communities around the world. Squatting has been an important part of past Queeruptions, as the first one in London was founded upon squatting in a gentrfiied area of South London. The justification behind squatting is the reclaiming of "public spaces" in order to use them as political, educational, and artistic spaces by queer individuals. Inherently, Queeruption participants see this squatting and gathering as an act of resistance against capitalism. Information for Queeruption has typically been spread through zines."Queeruption InfoZine."
Athen and Fiscious. ''Queeruption VI,'' January 2004. In more recent years, the information has been spread online, such as the now defunct Queeruption website or Instagram for the 2017 Budapest festival. The moto of Queeruption is "Queer mutiny, not consumer unity," and generally these events stand for a display of queer expression that the groups argue diverts from the conventional Gay Pride events. According to the 2004 Queeruption Zine, the gatherings in the past have included "vegan meals, political discussions, direct action, skills, workshops, bands, spoken word, dressup and cabaret, dance parties, film screenings, radical sex, spontaneous haircuts, and more."

List of gatherings

* Queeruption 1 (1998)

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

* Queeruption 2 (1999)

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* Queeruption 3 (2001)

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

* Queeruption 4 (2002)

* Queeruption 5 (2003)

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

* Queeruption 6 (2004)

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

* Queeruption 7 (2005)

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

* Queeruption 8 (2005)

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

* Queeruption 9 (2006)

Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

* Queeruption 10 (2007)

Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

* Queeruption 11 (2010)

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

* Queeruption 12 (2017)

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External links

*{{cite web , url=http://queeruption.tribe.net/ , title=Queeruption Homepate , website=Tribe Everywhere , date=July 2, 2005 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026032407/http://queeruption.tribe.net/ , archive-date=October 26, 2005 , access-date=March 12, 2021 Queercore LGBT rights organizations DIY culture LGBT anarchism

History

List of gatherings

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