Queer Up North 1992 – 2002

Celebrating Manchester’s LGBTQ+ Heritage

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Up North 1992–2002: Celebrating Manchester’s LGBTQ+ Heritage 🏳️‍⚧️

Our Queer Up North exhibition is now open at Archives+, Manchester Central Library (in the café)!

Explore bold and beautiful material from the first decade of Queer Up North, the groundbreaking festival that brought queer artists and audiences from across the globe to Manchester and helped shape the city’s LGBTQIA+ cultural identity.

🔎 Discover archive material from the Queer Up North collection

🎧 Hear oral histories from the people who made and experienced the festival in the Sound & Vision pods

📚 Celebrate a remarkable chapter of Manchester’s LGBTQIA+ heritage