Fringe Benefits
Edinburgh in August continues to be an exciting – and generally safe – place for LGBTQ+ people to express and see themselves in the performing arts as Paul Fisher Cockburn – born and raised in the Scottish capital – explains.
by Paul Fisher Cockburn
It’s often said that size matters: to be fair, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is arguably the largest LGBTQ+ arts festival in the world, given that, as the world’s largest arts festival, it has long offered a safe place for LGBTQ+ people to express themselves.
In part, that’s simply down to the self-selection process which has defined the Fringe ever since eight small theatre companies took it upon themselves to just turn up and organise their own venues “on the fringe” of the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama back in 1947.
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