OUR STORY
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. 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.
Over the next few years, we grew a beautiful queer family of dancers and DJs, drawn from all lifestyles and backgrounds. We took the name Little Gay Brother and came back annually to SGP. 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 built a soapy launderette in 2013 called Powders, and set up the first queer sex space and playroom at a UK festival in 2014.
But 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. In 2019, we were nominated for Promoter of the Year at the UK Festival Awards. 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.
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. But at our heart, Little Gay Brother is on a mission to make all festivals a safer and more inclusive environment for queer people.
QUEER RAVE
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. 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.
During Covid, we launched a sister-strand, Squirt cabaret, at Hackney’s Colour Factory, which brought much-needed hilarity to the community. 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. So far, we’ve raised over £20,000 for a variety of queer charities over the years including Stonewall UK, Terrace Higgins Trust, and the Albert Kennedy Trust. In 2021, we proudly support Stonewall Housing (and Gendered Intelligence via our new festival).
Because we can’t say no to a party, when we’ve got some free time we like to lend a hand and collaborate onstage with some of our DJ heroes and pals. Our epic, hard-working, slut-dropping, queer-preaching dancers have worked with loads of brilliant A-list DJ huns, like Dennis Sulta, Annie Mac, Peggy Gou, The Blessed Madonna, and Pete Tong to name just a few. It’s a bit mad, but over the years Little Gay Brother has become a headline act and artist and in its own right too.
JOIN OUR FAM
Wherever we are though, be it at The Royal Academy of Art or just a lovely sweaty rave, we are TOTALLY dedicated to the freedoms of queer self-expression. We’re here to change behaviours, to make people respect queer bodies, to raise visibility and promote acceptance by being unapologetically unapologetic. It’s a queer rave for everyone. You could be queer, bi, pan, lesbian, trans, non-binary, straight or simply somewhere in between.
Simply put, Little Gay Brother nights are open to anyone, as long as you're open to everyone.
Little Gay Brother is produced by founder Clayton Wright, and stars a whole host of talented dancers and DJs that encompass the full spectrum of the LGBTQI+ community.
QUEER POWER. QUEER EXPRESSION. QUEER RAVE
We’re an unapologetic fixture on the queer landscape of the capital and beyond, and as long as we can dance, Little Gay Brother will continue to inspire and unite LGBTQ+ clubbers. Little Gay Brother is a truly queer act, promotor, space, and collective, for truly authentic humans. Come and join our family.
COME INTO OUR WORLD
