So my queer safe space is this community run event called Dirt Dykes. It is essentially... It's an inclusive lesbian space for the night. So it is trans+ inclusive as well. And it's just anybody who identifies with the label dyke can come along and... My god, it is god's own country, it’s absolutely God's own country. It's just- they host it at a different places. But it's mostly at Wharf Chambers in Leeds, which is also a dedicated sort of queer safe space in itself.

But yeah, they change up what's going on there. Sometimes it's a dive bar, sometimes it's a drag show. The most recent one was Karaoke night, and it's just a space full of a bunch of lesbians, and it just makes me so happy because everybody's sort of on the same page about why we're here, what we're up to, who we are. It's amazing to meet so many people who you know get what you're going through, who you know are on the same page as you and who you know you can les out with, essentially.

It's also really helped me sort of develop, in terms of my own identity as a queer person. Like, I felt so inspired by everybody that I've met there. Everybody who I'm continuing to meet there. The drag show nights have really encouraged me to actually get into drag myself. Yeah, it's the first time I've seen drag performers who sort of looked like me or had similar interests- because a lot of drag performers are gay men. But these drag shows were insanely good as well. And it was all queer nonbinary people or trans people or gay women. And it was just like, wow, this is a whole underbelly of drag that I didn't know about.