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Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Queer Love and Relationships

Join us for stories of strength, joy and diversity and events which get to the heart of issues affecting the queer community across the world today.

Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Queer Love and Relationships

About Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Queer Love and Relationships

This August we celebrate the voices blazing a trail for the LGBTQIA+ community. From the continual fight for equality, recognition and belonging, to tender tales of love against the odds: join us for stories of strength, joy and diversity and events which get to the heart of issues affecting the queer community across the world today.

Travis Alabanza: Life Beyond the Binary
Saturday 13 August 14:15 - 15:15

Nothing but the Poem with Samuel Tongue: The Poetry of Andrés N Ordorica
Saturday 13 August 15:00 - 16:00

Jazz Money & Andrés N Ordorica: The Language of Protest and Love
Saturday 13 August 18:15 - 19:15

Nothing but the Poem with Samuel Tongue: The Poetry of Ocean Vuong
Wednesday 17 August 17:00 - 18:00

Raven Smith: On the Magnetism of Masculinity
Wednesday 17 August 19:00 - 20:00

Patrick Gale: The Word That Speaks the Man
Thursday 18 August 10:30 - 11:30

Kathryn Schulz: Love Lost and Found
Monday 22 August 18:15 - 19:15

Torrey Peters: The Remaking of the Family
Monday 22 August 20:00 - 21:00

Imogen Binnie: The Great American Road Trip Reimagined
Tuesday 23 August 20:15 - 21:15

Arinze Ifeakandu with Colm Tóibín: Love Under Seige
Wednesday 24 August 10:15 - 11:15

Norman Scott: The Establishment (Almost) Always Wins
Wednesday 24 August 13:00 - 14:00

Isabel Waidner: Matadors, Spaceships and Queer Liberation
Wednesday 24 August 16:15 - 17:15

Imogen Binnie, Torrey Peters & Shola von Reinhold: A Golden Age for Trans Fiction
Wednesday 24 August 20:00 - 21:00

Benjamin Dean & Simon James Green: Who Wants the Spotlight?
AGE 14+
Friday 26 August 17:00 - 18:00

Dean Atta & Juno Dawson: Love in Scotland
AGE 14+
Saturday 27 August 13:30 - 14:30

Lauren John Joseph & Liza Klaussmann: The Violence of First Loves
Saturday 27 August 17:30 - 18:30

Douglas Stuart with Val McDermid: Knives, Doves and Forbidden Love
Sunday 28 August 17:30 - 18:30

Danny Ramadan & Pajtim Statovci: The Resilience of Queer Love
Monday 29 August 13:00 - 14:00

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