Call Out to Venues and Producers for Queer Bath - June 2026
Queer Bath is a bold and inclusive celebration of LGBTQ+ arts, culture, heritage, and history, brought to life across Bath’s museums, galleries, and cultural spaces.
It’s not a standalone organisation, it's a collaborative initiative. Queer Bath is co-created by a growing network of local museums, heritage sites, arts organisations, and community partners working together to explore, honour, and amplify LGBTQ+ stories across the city.
Rooted in authenticity, co-creation and deep research, Queer Bath exists to uncover and share the hidden queer histories embedded in Bath’s historic buildings and collections. It’s a movement towards meaningful representation, historical accuracy, and cultural equity, powered by joint effort, not individual ownership.
This year we are opening out past heritage buildings and museums to include culture venues and spaces across Bath.
Gender Revolutionaries
2026 Queer Bath Theme
This year, Queer Bath invites our collaborators to explore Gender Revolutionaries: figures connected to our city who challenged, reshaped, or transcended the gender norms of their time, and who continue to provoke vital questions about how we understand gender and sexuality in 2026.
From the Chevalier d’Éon - the transgender diplomat, spy, and duellist who made Bath her home - to the Roman emperor Elagabalus, contemporary to the functioning of the Roman Baths and represented in the museum’s collection, whose life defied the binaries of imperial masculinity; and even Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, whose time in Bath shaped Frankenstein, who moved in profoundly queer circles and may have had her own intimate relationships with women.
We invite collaborators to look anew at their collections, histories, and the stories of our city through the lens of these and other boundary-breakers, uncovering how Bath has long been shaped by people who revolutionised ideas of gender, sexuality, and identity.
What Can Queer Bath Offer?
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We help connect event producers, artists, curators and venues across Bath, ensuring your activity is supported by the right partners and reaches the right audiences.
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Your event, exhibition or installation will be promoted as part of the official Queer Bath programme, including:
A listing on the Queer Bath website
Dedicated social media promotion across Queer Bath channels
Inclusion in the official Queer Bath press release shared with local, regional and national media
Visibility within our seasonal marketing campaign, giving your event broader reach
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You’ll receive a suite of branded assets and messaging guidance including:
Social media graphics
Copy templates
Logos and visual identity guidance
Tone-of-voice notes to ensure alignment with Queer Bath’s values
These resources ensure your event feels connected to the wider celebration while keeping your organisation’s identity intact.
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Where helpful, we can offer advice or connections around programming, historical research, inclusive practice, speakers, performers or event formats - ensuring your contribution feels meaningful, well-produced and rooted in our shared ethos.
What is the criteria for taking part?
Participation in Queer Bath is simple and flexible. We welcome organisations at all stages — whether you already have an event in mind or are looking to develop something new.
1. Explore or celebrate LGBTQ+ art, history, culture or heritage
Your contribution should meaningfully engage with queer stories or creativity. This could be an existing event, something you develop especially for Queer Bath, or a new idea created in collaboration with our network.
2. Align with Queer Bath’s ethos and values
All participating venues should share our commitment to authenticity, depth, inclusivity and meaningful representation, as outlined in the Queer Bath Manifesto.
3. Contribute positively to the city-wide programme
We welcome a wide range of formats each adding something unique to the celebration e.g. talks, screenings, trails, performances, installations and more
And if you don’t yet have content? You can still take part.
Venues without existing LGBTQ+ programming are warmly encouraged to get involved. Simply tell us about your space and the kinds of activities you’re interested in hosting, and we can help connect you with producers or artists who can develop a suitable event.
How to get involved?
Which are you?
A venue with an event, exhibition or installation ready for Queer Bath
Brilliant — we’d love to include it. Please send details and imagery via this form submission below.
A venue that wants to take part but doesn’t yet have an event planned
You’re very welcome. Share information about your space, hire fee and the kind of activity you’d be open to hosting, and we’ll try our best to match you with an event producer.
An event producer wanting to create an event for Queer Bath
Whether you already have a venue or need help finding the right one, we can support you. Tell us about your event via the form link below.
If you have any questions please email queerbath@gmail.com.
Queer Bath is supported and achieved through donated time, skills and resources from the teams at Bath Arts Collective, Holburne, Reel Life Monsters, WIG!.