3000 Lesbians Go to York: The Story of a Queer Arts Festival by Jane Traies

In the first decade of this millennium, thousands of women would flock to York each autumn for the Libertas! and YLAF festivals: to hear their favourite authors and singers, buy piles of lesbian books and dance till the clocks went back. Friendships and marriages were formed and identities forged. 

In this fascinating, lavishly illustrated book, Jane Traies tells the story of that sapphic idyll through interviews, memories and photographs. A treasure trove of inclusive queer history. 

'A weekend on Planet Dyke' Val McDermid 

'It wasn’t so much that they were the audience and I was the performer, it felt more symbiotic than that… like call and response in the blues' Jackie Kay 

'How lucky I've been, to live at a time when such a thing could flourish' Christine Webb 

Paperback / 224 pages