An exciting new weekend festival is coming to Cardiff this summer. LezDiff, the new arts and film festival set to take place between the 8-10 July at The Queer Emporium and the Chapter Arts Centre. The weekend is set to be full of seminars looking back on the history of lesbian literature and screenings of top short films created by lesbians across the whole LGBT+ community.
The festival has said it is entirely inclusive to participants, actively encouraging transgender lesbians, bisexual women and queer women from "all sections of society" to get involved and feel included in the celebrations. The festival began development in 2021, after chair of the festival, Rachel Dax, approached a group of women about the creation of a Welsh festival dedicated to showing lesbian stories.
According to organisers, mainstream lesbian film releases tend to be period dramas directed by men with straight women playing the main roles and say almost nothing about what it means to be a real lesbian in the 21st century. In a statement on the website, organisers said that the festival came to fruition due to the lack of lesbian-specific media being available.
