A film critic, a former head programmer at Vilnius International Film Festival. She is a member of the Film Critics Guild at the Lithuanian Union of Cinematographers, regularly writes about Lithuanian and global cinema, takes active part in professional appreciation of film.
A dramaturg, writer, and theatre and performance maker working across disciplines. An alumnus of DAS Theatre and THIRD, an artistic research programme in Amsterdam, he works as co-director of In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities, a platform for queer performance pedagogy and feedback. Szymon is a founding member and programme coordinator at QueerMuzeum Warszawa. / Photo by Kevin Lunianga.
A dramaturge and performance artist whose writing and stage works explore deep time, constant change, and pleasure, as well as the role of memory institutions and historical research. Emil’s first play, Ihana tytär Erika – Huomioita nimestä, was awarded both the Archival Act of the Year 2023 and the Lea Prize 2024. / Photo by Carles Millana Martinez.
A dramaturg, writer, and theatre and performance maker working across disciplines. An alumnus of DAS Theatre and THIRD, an artistic research programme in Amsterdam, he works as co-director of In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities, a platform for queer performance pedagogy and feedback. Szymon is a founding member and programme coordinator at QueerMuzeum Warszawa. / Photo by Kevin Lunianga.
A co-founder and co-curator of išgirsti, a queer project space, gallery, and Lithuanian Queer Archive, as well as a co-founder and director of the 13-year-old Vilnius queer festival Kreivės. Augustas holds a degree in Gender Studies and has been involved in social, cultural, queer, and feminist movements since 2006, working across the broader fields of social welfare, support, and self-expression. / Photo by Severina Venckutė.
A Teaching Associate Professor at the Department of History, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several books and articles on LGBTQ+ history and the history of gender and sexuality. Over the past decade, he has worked to establish an LGBTQ+ Museum and Archive in Copenhagen, an initiative that has recently received support from the City of Copenhagen.
Based in Stockholm, works with illustration, visual communication, and sound art. Together with Johan Sundell and Birt Berglund, she runs the queer sound archive Arkivet för Rosa Brus (Archive of Pink Noises).
A historian and senior academic librarian at Skeivt arkiv, the Norwegian Queer Archive. His research focuses on queer history in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the criminalization of sex between men and psychiatric discourses on homosexuality.
An artist working between the UK and Estonia and exhibiting internationally. Her multidisciplinary practice engages with questions of identity, gender, memory, and belonging, with a particular focus on borderlands, transitional states, and marginalised or overlooked histories. In 2025, Maria received the Estonian Annual Award for Visual and Applied Arts. She is currently the recipient of a three-year artist salary awarded by the Estonian Ministry of Culture while completing a practice-based PhD at the Estonian Academy of Arts. / Photo by Nele Tammeaid.
A Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist based in Vilnius. He holds a master’s degree in Architecture. In his practice, he explores marginalised segments of society, identities, and the dynamics of social ecology. His artistic practice engages dynamically with public contexts, fostering a deeper connection between art and society. In his visual narratives, Anton uses an abstract artistic language and minimalist forms, deftly moving between intimate and socially sensitive themes. / Photo by Jussi Virkkumaa.
A cultural researcher, art historian, and leather gay. He is writing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Helsinki on the oral and visual storytelling traditions of the male fetish community MSC Finland – Tom’s Club. He has studied cultural studies, art history, and museology at the universities of Helsinki, St Petersburg, and Hong Kong. Kauppinen currently works at the Helsinki Art Museum HAM. He is a long-standing human rights activist and currently serves as vice-chair of the Finnish Friends of Rainbow History Association. / Photo by Mattias Blomqvist.
Holds degrees in history and gender studies. She is a co-curator of the išgirsti Lithuanian Queer Archive and a team member of the Vilnius Queer Festival Kreivės. She is Head of Communications at the Center for Equality Advancement and a council member of Social Center Emma in Kaunas. She is an active participant in feminist, queer, and labour union movements in Lithuania and across Eastern Europe. / Photo by Severina Venckutė.
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a founding member of QRAB, the Archives and Library of the Queer Movement. With equal love for meticulous metadata and queer chaos, they work as QRAB’s collections coordinator, providing access to activists, academics, and artists wishing to explore the vast past.
A board member of QRAB, the Archives and Library of the Queer Movement. She holds a doctoral degree in the history of ideas and science and is an associate professor of gender studies.
A researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Her research focuses on LGBTQ+ history, homophobia and anti-gender movements, gender and sexuality in Eastern Europe, as well as feminist and queer theory. She holds a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from the Central European University and has previously conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna.
An assistant professor at the Art Academy of Latvia and a leading researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia. His current research focuses on queer representation and masculinities in contemporary Latvian art, the films of Gunārs Piesis, and anti-gender discourse in Latvia. He is also a composer and pianist and has released three critically acclaimed albums with his band Grupa Sigma. / Photo by Ieva Romaško.
An archivist at the Finnish Labour Archives, where for the past nine years she has been organising queer-related archival materials and oral history collections, as well as conducting oral history interviews. The Finnish Labour Archives play a central role in preserving and documenting LGBTQ+ history in Finland, having collected queer archival materials since 2002.
A research fellow in ethnology at the University of Tartu. She has studied queer art practices in Eastern Europe, queer history in Estonia, and LGBTQ+ ageing in Estonia. As a curator, she has primarily worked on art exhibitions and, more recently, has also curated exhibitions at various history museums in Estonia. / Photo by Alana Proosa.
A dramaturge and performance artist whose writing and stage works explore deep time, constant change, and pleasure, as well as the role of memory institutions and historical research. Emil’s first play, Ihana tytär Erika – Huomioita nimestä, was awarded both the Archival Act of the Year 2023 and the Lea Prize 2024. / Photo by Carles Millana Martinez.
A researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies. Her research interests include film, popular music, feminist and queer theory. She has written on film and other topics for various publications and works as a film critic and programmer.
A Latvian poet and the author of seven collections of poetry and four children’s books. His selected poems, Vidaus tvarkos taisyklės (2022), have been published in Lithuanian. He is a senior researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia and an assistant professor at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
