We also launched a campaign to raise funds for Opening Doors London – a charity that supports vulnerable over 50s members of the LGBTQ+ community, which got everyone from Olly Alexander to Jade Thirlwall to Munroe Bergdorf to the Pet Shop Boys involved. As well as one-offs at The Steel Yard and FOLD, Little Gay Brother also became the first queer promoters in over 11 years to host a party at the legendary club, fabric.ĭuring Covid, we launched a sister-strand, Squirt cabaret, at Hackney’s Colour Factory, which brought much-needed hilarity to the community. We started hosting open-minded, queer nights at some of the city’s most iconic venues – Heaven, Dalston Superstore, VFD – before carving out our own space at Omeara, in South London. But at our heart, Little Gay Brother is on a mission to make all festivals a safer and more inclusive environment for queer people. Hundreds of DJs, from Eats Everything, Honey Dijon, Fat Tony, to scene icons like Oli Keens and Maze&Masters have blessed our decks at the many festivals we’ve appeared at. In 2021, Little Gay Brother founder Clayton Wright launched his own festival with DJ Saoirse Ryan called Body Movements – the first Queer & Trans Electronic Music Festival in the UK, which sold out in just a few days. In 2019, we were nominated for Promoter of the Year at the UK Festival Awards. We built a soapy launderette in 2013 called Powders, and set up the first queer sex space and playroom at a UK festival in 2014.īut as we spread our wings to more festivals Lovebox, Meadows in the Mountains, Riverside, FLY Open Air (and many more), we adopted a mission to spread positive queer vibes on stage, we actually began to change the festival landscape behind the scenes too – by rewriting many festival’s respect policies to be inclusive of queer people and their safety, including at Wilderness, Elrow and Boomtown. Our venues got bigger, more outlandish and each one built bespoke (and dripping in flair, we might add) by our team of queer set builders and stage designers. We took the name Little Gay Brother and came back annually to SGP. Over the next few years, we grew a beautiful queer family of dancers and DJs, drawn from all lifestyles and backgrounds. We set up The Secret Garden Party’s first queer space, The Coming Out Bar, a bar that prioritised queer visibility and culture, letting people like us be our authentic selves in a supportive environment. Little Gay Brother’s started as a festival collective, creating places for the LGBTQ+ community within the UK music festival scene because these spaces were super rare at the time.