Queer Lemons

Queer Lemons is a voluntary group, founded to fill the gaps for ethnically diverse queers in the North East and advocate for systemic change where institutions and big organisations fail us or actively perpetuate harm. We are committed to developing more inclusive spaces and protocols and are actively exploring alternative models of governance through our activities, making ourselves visible and queering our city.
Striving to be relational and critical, our group sees itself as an ecology of individuals, allyships and partnerships, allowing us to structure ourselves without becoming rigid, adapt without growing precarious, and remain agile to best deliver our shared mission of systemic change for queers belonging to the Global majority, in particular and i LGBTQ+ people, in general.
Where possible we adopt non-hierarchical methods, whilst recognising these are sometimes necessary in relation to our responsibilities to our funders.
Our mission is to provide our members, who are queer identifying and belonging to the Global Majority, within our community with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to achieve success and visibility for their talents at the highest levels of their field.
Since October 2021, we’ve allowed ourselves to lean into the messiness of the unknown; to experiment, with form and processes.