This annual day-long LGBTQIA+ literature festival was started in 2018 by Queer Chennai Chronicles. It aims to encourage and create opportunities for queer-identifying writers, translators, artists and publishers who are otherwise invisibilised or ignored in various literary platforms. The Chennai Queer LitFest, which is a completely queer-run festival, brings together varied queer perspectives about literature from and about India through sessions such as panel discussions, poetry recitals and reading performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Activists and writers Living Smile Vidya, Shobasakthi, Thamizhachi Thangapandian, Vasudhendra and V. Geetha have been part of the festival so far. While the first two editions were held in-person, the last two instalments, entitled Queer LitFest Live, were conducted digitally. In 2020, the events were streamed live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and in 2021, an \u201caudio-only\u201d edition was staged on Twitter Spaces in partnership with Twitter India. The latest instalment of the festival was held in September 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n