One of the few festivals that continues this year is Somewhere over the Rainbow, the LGBTQ + Summer Film Festival at LantarenVenster! From Saturday August 1 to September 1 the most beautiful films with a LGBTQ + theme will be shown on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday.

The 1st Queer & Feminist Poetry Awards will take place on September 27th and will award poets and spoken word artists from across the Netherlands whose works talk about LGBTQ+ identities and feminism.

Luis Bracamontes is a queer Mexican spoken word artist and digital marketeer.  He is the founder of Unwanted Words, a queer spoken word initiative, and organizer of the first Queer and Feminist Poetry Awards in Rotterdam.

Lamin Barrow is a young Spoken Word artist and fashion illustrator from The Gambia. Lamin is on a journey to become a Dutch citizen and start a fabulous queer life in The Netherlands. Lamin recently joined the Rotterdam based Spoken Word collective Unwanted Words and sends a Spoken Word a day to all his subscribers.