THELOVEHUB x Fringe! 2025
We're back!
The Love Hub (the love-child of The Love Tank and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest) returns for our 7th and biggest bumper 30 event edition!
Our in-person weekend of events returns to our home-from-home, Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road, in London's east end. For one day only - Saturday 20th September - we're jumping one block northwards and add the stunning St Hilda's East to our weekend of activities. So much to choose from!
At Love Hub '25, we've got four midweek online live events for folks who can't get to our weekend of in-person activity; plus coinciding in-person weekday events at The Love Tank HQ in Cambridge Heath. Our Friday night kicks off with a celebration of 10 Years of PrEPster (there will be cake), with the weekend rounding off with a final night party. In between? In between there's bondage; witchy lotion brewing; yoga; salsa; queering abortion; and a whole heap more.
All Love Hub venues have step-free access and accessible toilet facilities.
A note on Love Hub well-being: All the venues we're using are ventilated - but that doesn't make them totally COVID, flu or common-cold safe. We'll have free masks available, fans blowing, HEPA filters pumping, and specific areas for folx who want some space. Got a cough, cold, or flu-like symptoms? Please take a break until your symptoms have subsided: many of us in our communities have to do everything we can not to get sick, including those of us with disabilities or compromised immune systems.
House Rules
aka The Love Hub values
The Love Hub is brought to you by The Love Tank - a non-profit organisation promoting the health and well-being of underserved communities.
We’re a lived experience organization: we’re queer, pro-trans, and believe that migrants make our worlds richer and more joyful. We’re proudly anti-racist and believe access to health care - including abortion - is a human right. We stand for bodily autonomy including reproductive justice, the decriminalization of drug use and sex work, and access to gender-affirming care.
A lot of our work focuses on sexual health, so please expect conversations that include sex and sexual well-being.
If you’ve just discovered The Love Tank and are thinking of booking a Love Hub ticket, but find our values challenging, this is a great moment to ask yourself: “Is this space right for me?”
Some sessions will have an official photographer present. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let us know at the start of the session. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, photography, video, or audio recording of panel members or audience members is not permitted. Anyone who records or photographs without consent will be asked to leave the session.
Our events are fun, joyful, and supportive. It takes courage for presenters and facilitators to get up and share their work, so please be respectful: clap in the right places, don’t heckle, and help create a welcoming environment. If our values don’t align with yours, that’s okay - please don’t attend. We won’t mind.
Book your tickets!
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Black Queer Healing
MON 15 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6PM
THE GREEN HOUSE, FREEA space for Black Queer women, Black trans men & Black FLINTA* to speak truth, reclaim joy & care for our bodies. From medical racism to gynaecology, fibroids & pleasure - we’ll explore what it means to thrive in systems that overlook us. Not just surviving, but glowing, healing & living loud.
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Swish Swish Bish Clothes Swap
TUE 16 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6PM
THE GREEN HOUSE, FREESwish Swish Bish is a gender-affirming clothes swap centring trans joy. Try new looks, bring old clothes, or just come feel cute. Includes a mini makeup workshop & mending station. Especially for trans folks exploring style - but everyone’s welcome in this joyful, no-judgment zone.
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Kinky Dyke Lounge
WED 17 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6.30PM
THE GREEN HOUSE, FREEKinky Dyke Lounge is a chill, interactive space for dykes & FLINTA* folks to explore kink. Join us for a hands-on Dyke Kink 101, ask questions, handle gear, or just lounge and connect. No pressure, no judgment - just queer kinky joy in good company.
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Q-Weird Science
THU 18 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6PM
THE GREEN HOUSE, FREEQ-Weird Science is an interactive workshop + (weather-permitting) star-gazing sesh for queer science nerds & curious minds. We’ll explore queerness in nature, biology, and beyond - with telescopes, cosmic chats, and mind-bending experiments. STEM isn’t straight, and the universe has always been a little bit queer.
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Highs & Lows: Queer Harm Reduction 101
MON 15 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 7PM
ONLINE, FREELet’s be real - queers have always mixed pleasure, parties, and powerful connection. High & Lows is a judgment-free zone for open, honest chats about drugs, sex, consent, and community care. Whether you're a seasoned raver or a curious cutie, we’ll explore how to party safer, love smarter, and take care of each other - especially when things get hazy. Bring your questions, your wisdom, and your wild stories (if you want). Leave with new tools, tips, and maybe even a chill-out buddy or two.
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Generation Injectables – HIV treatment and prevention futures
TUE 16 SEPTEMBER 2025, 7PM
ONLINE, FREEDone with daily HIV treatment pills? Forgotten if you’ve done your after-sex PrEP doses? Do new injectable options offer liberation and freedom, or tether us to clinic appointments and calendar plans? This interactive panel of people living with HIV, PrEP users, and people at the front-face of new HIV technology development take us through the new injectable HIV treatment and PrEP options.
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Kink Scribe
WED 17 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 7PM
ONLINE, FREEEver had a night so hot it haunted you? Or read something so filthy it made you grin? Join kink writer Matt Skully to explore the erotic power of words. We’ll read, reflect, and write our desires into stories. No writing skills needed—just curiosity and a comfy spot to get inspired.
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Queer Disability Justice
THU 18 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 7PM
ONLINE, FREEQueer. Disabled. Glorious. Join us for a juicy and joyful convo about what the future could look like when it centres disabled queer lives. We’ll dream beyond access ramps and tick-box inclusion into pleasure, pride, and radically accessible joy. Expect storytelling, visioning, and a space where you don’t have to explain your body, your mind, or your magic.
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10 Years of PrEPster
FRI 19 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6.30PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEWe might have greyer hair, more wrinkles, and a few extra inches round the waistline but the team behind PrEPster is still fighting-hot! Ten years after the founding of this PrEP activist group, Love Hub hosts a panel of those who were in the room when it happened. Expect surprise guests, celebrations, and a big mouthful of birthday cake.
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Queering Masculinity
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 11AM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEAs queer people, our panellists have had the chance to redefine masculinity and what it means to them. In a world struggling with a so-called “crisis of masculinity”, we look to those who have subverted, remoulded and redefined masculinity through a trans and gender non-conforming lens, to ask what healthy masculinity can look like in the current day.
The event will feature an all trans panel discussion looking into how we can create our own relationship with masculinity, especially via the freedom of a gender transgressive route. We'll look into our run-ins with toxic masculinity, why we think misogyny is on the rise, and also speak on our love for masculinity, too.
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Hormonally Yours
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 1PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEFrom suppressing puberty to growing pubes, this session gets into all things hormonal, and we discuss keeping ourselves safe, affirmed, and in control of our hormone journeys.
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Queer Eye for AI
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 3PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEEver sexted using ChatGPT? Is that hot body you saw on Grindr a real picture or the result of a “headless torso with abs” prompt? How safe is all the data we’ve submitted to hookup apps? Join our panel discussion on how to get to grips with Large Language Models, and what they mean for queer safety, security, and privacy.
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The Queer Arab Salon
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 5PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEStep into the salon – the Arabic word for living room – for an evening of shared stories, laughter, and connection. This is a space to celebrate queer Arab joy, reflect on our experiences, and build community through conversation. Expect warmth, tea, and powerful moments of togetherness.
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The Darkroom Diaries
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 8PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEWhat happens after dark, when things start to get hot and sweaty in the back room of a club, where you’re guided only by hands, smells, and horn? Come and listen to some hot, sensual, and X-rated stories from our esteemed group of talented writers.
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Queer Yoga
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 10AM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM A), FREEStretch it out, slow it down, and breathe into your beautiful queer body. This gentle, affirming yoga session with beloved teacher Anton Reuben Young is open to all levels. Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or just curious, come reconnect with your breath, your body, and your community. Every body welcome, boundaries respected.
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Queer Salsa
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 12PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM A), FREETwo left feet? Perfect. Join us for Queer Salsa – a beginner-friendly dance class and social led by queer babes who centre joy, consent, and Afro-Latin rhythms. Learn the basics, choose your role (lead or follow), and dance your way into new connections. No partner needed. Come for the footwork, stay for the queer joy and sweet spins.
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Home Essentials
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 2PM
ST HILDA’S EAST (ROOM A), FREEStill using Blu Tack as a design solution? Fear not, DIY darlings! Home Essentials is your queer crash course in hanging, drilling, and building with pride. Join handy babe Dani Singer for a playful, practical workshop where we turn “IKEA anxiety” into “I made this!” vibes. Tools, laughs, and queer home power - guaranteed.
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Category Is:
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 4PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM A), FREEParis Is Burning, Vogue, and Pose helped launch ballroom into the mainstream - but London’s scene has its own fierce flavour. Join us as legends from the UK ballroom community share what makes it unique. From fashion to footwork, hear the stories, feel the energy - and if we’re lucky, learn a move or two!
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Luminous Beings: Gong Bath Ceremony
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM A), FREETired? Overstimulated? Spirit feeling a bit crunchy? Come lie down, close your eyes, and let the healing vibes wash over your queer little soul. At Luminous Being, sound wizard Lucas will bathe you (metaphorically!) in soothing tones, gentle gongs, and vibrational magic. No experience needed - just bring something comfy to lie on and a willingness to be tender with yourself.
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Queer Folklore
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 10AM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM B), FREEEver felt like your queer soul deserved its own fairy tale? Join us for Queer Folklore – a craft-and-chat session where we’ll make dolly-peg dolls and explore folklore through a queer lens. Expect sequins, stories, scissors, and soul-searching. No artistic talent needed—just your imagination and most folkloric feelings.
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Stamp Camp
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 12PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM B), FREEFeeling pressed? Come carve it out at Stamp Camp – a queer lino printing session where you’ll chisel your own masterpiece and print it like the icon you are. Make greeting card-sized prints to gift, frame, or hand to your crush. No experience needed – just bring your creativity and a healthy respect for sharp objects.
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Trans Voice Academy
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 2PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM B), FREECurious about trans voice work or ready to explore your voice potential? Join this workshop led by Stephen – trans voice coach and London Trans Choir conductor – for a gentle, supportive session to discover what your voice can be. No experience needed, just bring yourself and a willingness to be heard and celebrated!
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Potions & Lotions
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 4PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM B), FREEThere’s wisdom in the leaves! Join us as we explore different plants and minerals, and whip up a few concoctions you can use to calm your nerves, provide first aid, and feel balanced.
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Body – Oddy
SAT 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 6PM
ST. HILDA’S EAST (ROOM B), FREEOur bodies carry so much – joy, shame, desire, dysphoria, survival. Body–Oddy is a heart-forward space to explore how we live in, love, and struggle with our queer bodies. From eating disorders to gym culture, fatphobia to healing – join us for honest convo, soft support, and zero judgement. No wrong bodies here, only real ones.
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Rope Bondage 101
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 11AM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEBack by popular demand, rope artist and bondage aficionado Phantom is back, to show us how to get to grips with the basics of tying knots and tightening cinches.
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Queering Abortion
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 1PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEBodily autonomy is one of the pillars of queer liberation, and this includes reproductive freedom. Join us for an insightful panel discussion, where we’ll look at what abortion means in theory and in practice for queer people, queer relationships, and queer bodies.
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Dating Clinic
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 3PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEFinding it hard to move from online to real life? Unsure what you should and shouldn’t share on a first date? Want to know how many dates it takes to make a situationship into a relationship? Come to the dating clinic, where our resident dating doctors will answer your burning questions, whether you’re in the talking stage or falling in love.
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After “Sex Work Is Work!”
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 5PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREE“Sex Work is Work!” – but what else? This session explores what that slogan enables, blurs, and misses. Hear from escorts, content creators, and former sex workers on the joys, challenges, and complexities of the industry. Let’s move beyond the slogan and into real talk, nuance, and care.
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Queers Do Quizzes!
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 7PM
RICH MIX (THE MIX), FREEOur annual queertastic quiz is back. Think you know everything about queer film, music, sport, politics, health, and art? Well, think again! The Love Tank Team returns with the quizhoster’s mic and fires quick-fire questions, picture puzzles, and team-tagging with a twist. Come in pairs, groups, or on your own – and leave with new best queer friends and a box full of prizes!
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The Final Slay – Closing Party!
SUN 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, AT 8.30PM
RICH MIX (THE STAGE), FREEWe came, we queered, we refused to go quietly. Join us for the grand finale of the Fringe and Love Hub festival – The Final Slay. Expect beats, sweat, glitter, and some deeply emotional eye contact across the dancefloor. One last night to kiss, cry, dance and celebrate your queer little heart out – with DJs and surprises to send us off in style.
