100 Queer Scouse Activists
100 Queer Scouse Activists
100 Queer Scouse Activists is a living archive, gathering stories of resistance and rebellion from the everyday radicals who have shaped Liverpool’s queer history. Through storytelling workshops and digital submissions, these voices will be celebrated and shared during Homotopia Festival and beyond. The project honours the quiet acts of courage that sustain communities as much as the bold, loud acts of protest - recognising that every contribution matters.
Artist and activist Clare Jasmine Beloved weaves her decades of experience in grassroots creativity with Homotopia to create a juicy space where the past, present, and future of queer activism meet.
The gathered stories will form an evolving digital archive and the beginning of a future 100-card story deck, to be hopefully launched alongside exhibitions and events for LGBTQIA+ History Month in February 2026. From bus stops to banners, from kitchens to nightclubs, activism in Liverpool takes many creative forms.
This project welcomes unheard stories - from your auntie who lived at Greenham Common, to your nephew fighting for trans rights, to people like YOU who may never have thought of themselves as activists before
. We want your stories.
We’re gathering 100 stories of queer Scouse activists – past, present, and future.
Who could the 100 be ?
You can nominate yourself even if you don’t usually blow your own trumpet! We want untold stories.
This is about visibility which inspires and gives courage and we need all types of people to come forward so we have a wide range of experiences represented.
You can also encourage friends and family who you think would be good to be included. Whether someone’s contribution was quiet and local or bold and visible, we believe their story deserves to be part of this living archive.
The 100 activists we want to gather should -
Identify as queer or part of the LGBTQIA+ family/community.
Be connected to Liverpool or the wider Merseyside region (they may have been born here, live here now, be an adopted scouser! or have deep ties to the area).
Be living or no longer with us – we want to honour both current changemakers and those whose legacy still inspires.
An activist, in this context, is anyone whose actions create positive change in their community, whether or not they have ever called themselves an activist.
The activism itself doesn’t have to focus on LGBTQIA+ issues. It might involve housing justice, environmental action, youth work, health care, creativity, or any form of community care and resistance.
We especially want to highlight intersectional activism – work that lifts up communities while standing firmly against oppression.
Here is how to join in …
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October Activists Workshop
100 Queer Scouse Activists Workshop
Sunday 12th October
1 – 3 pm
📍 LUSH Liverpool, Education Room (3rd Floor, Church Street Store)
What’s it about?
We’re gathering untold stories of queer Scouse activists – past, present, and future. An activist, in this project, is anyone whose actions create positive change in their community – whether or not they’ve ever called themselves an activist. This gentle workshop with artist therapist Clare Beloved will be a space to share stories together, reflect, and celebrate.
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Take Part Online
If you can’t join us in person, you can still be part of the 100 Queer Scouse Activists project.
We’ve put together a simple online form where you can share your story.
The link is below.
If you’d like some support before or while filling it in — or if you’d prefer to talk it through with someone first — you can get in touch with Clare:
📧 Email: clarejbeloved@icloud.com
📱 WhatsApp: 07813 920489
We will need a good clear photograph of you for our exhibition this can be arranged with Clare or you may have to email us.
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Scouse Sunday Activists as part of Festival
November 23, 2025
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Museum of Liverpool
Pier Head, Mann Island, Liverpool , L3Join us for a metaphorical Scouse Sunday dinner. The Art Activist Edition, is a threecourse feast of ideas inspired by Split Britches’ Long Table – This is a dinner party where everyone can take a seat, and conversation is the main course.
We begin with a creative invite to decorate plates, bowls, and cups that symbolise your story and express the values and gifts you bring to activism. It’s a way to place something of ourselves on the table, even if we don’t feel like speaking. Then comes the Long Table itself, hosted by researcher Emma Spruce. The table is open: participants can join at any time, take a seat, scribble on the tablecloth, or simply watch from the surrounding chairs.
The conversation might meander, get messy, and find its own rhythm as we explore how Homotopia can support Scouse activists in a time when our rights, and the rights of communities we stand in solidarity with, are under threat.
We will end with Juicy Creative Storytelling Circles, hosted by Clare Beloved and participants from the 100 Queer Scouse Activists Project, with scran, cake, and endless brews to fuel connection, reflection, and imagination. Everyone’s welcome round our scouse table. Pull up a chair. The table is set. The conversation is waiting.
Clare Jasmine Beloved is a Liverpool grassroots artist, poet, and creative therapist. For over 30 years, she has woven magical spaces of story and imagination, gathering and amplifying unheard voices through creativity and community.
100 Queer Scouse Activists was created to honour the legacy of Clare’s late wife, Sandra Richardson — a passionate community activist who believed -
“You find more activism and kindness at a bus stop in Liverpool than in any headlines or flash award ceremony.”
Clare’s work happens in job centres, housing estates, hospitals, prisons, and mental health spaces, as well as stirring up irreverence and colour in dull spaces and galleries.
Her practice weaves together creativity, tender magic and passionate possibility - celebrating quiet, untold acts of courage in communities alongside bold acts of resistance.
She strives to create spaces where people can see their importance, power and place in the bigger story.