{"title": "Reading for Resistance campaign launch – with Dean Atta", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rose Theatre", "address": "High Street 24-26, KT1 1HL Kingston upon Thames", "price": "£0 - £11.55", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "11.55", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/queer-literature", "society/queer"], "description": "A public launch event for Reading for Resistance, a new campaign against rising LGBTQ+ censorship. It is hosted by Amnesty International UK Queer Rights Network and falls during Trans Awareness Week, 23 years after the repeal of Section 28. A panel of speakers including Dean Atta, a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning author, will discuss efforts to restrict access to queer books and stories. 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The event launches Amnesty's Queer Stories Covenant, a public pledge to protect access to LGBTQ+ stories, and attendees leave with practical ways to take action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amnesty-uk-reading-for-resistance-campaign-launch-64945/", "official_url": "https://www.rosetheatre.org/whats-on/amnesty-uk-reading-for-resistance-campaign-launch-zsf4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2a8187cda800dfd61af67e91a8265ee8e8399ce54befdb74138a5aff1538344-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BOOK LAUNCH: UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resitance with Arachne Press", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "", "price_from": "2.50", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A book launch celebrating UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, the latest anthology from Arachne Press. The publisher has long championed LGBTQ+ writers, and the anthology explores queerness as resistance, from coming out and living boldly to politics and creativity. The evening features readings by Abhi, Arun Jeetoo, Carmina Masoliver, Cherry Potts, Jeremy Dixon, Rick Dove and Robin Campbell.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-uproar-poems-of-queer-resitance-with-arachne-pre-78807/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-up-roar-poems-of-queer-resitance-with-arachne-press/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98a3170dcdbf2d3fd57f332e47105d6d478cf78bcb970d12464255c44036af1f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hidayah’s Book Club: Homosexual Intifada", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T17:00:00Z", "place": "London LGBTQ+ Community Centre", "address": "Hopton Street 60-62, SE1 9JH London", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "society/queer", "literature"], "description": "Hidayah’s Book Club: Homosexual Intifada is a book club session at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre, open to queer Muslims and allies within the Hidayah community. Hidayah hosts a discussion of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology by Hannah Moushabeck and George Abraham, a collection of essays, poetry, and personal reflections centring queer Palestinian voices. The anthology brings together stories of resistance, identity, joy, and survival, looking at queerness, homeland, and liberation. It offers a gentle, reflective space to discuss the book and connect with others, and attendees are welcome whether they have finished it or are just beginning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hidayahs-book-club-homosexual-intifada-41655/", "official_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/event/hidayahs-book-club-homosexual-intifada/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans+ Domesticities", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Home", "address": "Kingsland Road 136, E2 8EA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "occasion"], "description": "Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans+ Domesticities is a day to night celebration launching a new display of trans homes and creativity in 2000s East London. 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