Founded in October of 2015, Naked Heart is often the largest and most diverse LGBTQ literary festival in the world.
Our VISION
To establish a yearly Canadian LGBTQ literary festival that amplifies love, language & freedom.
Our GOALS
- Strengthen literacies and the literary community of LGBTQ people.
- Create spaces for people to find new work, new opportunities, new friends and new lovers.
- Increase supports for underrepresented identities, experiences and forms of language.
- Build bridges between people of different generations and cultures in the LGBTQ community.
- Use story as a catalyst to resist oppression, explore desire, increase love & heal trauma for anyone whose gender or sexual identity doesn’t fit society’s narrow limits and expectations.
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