Christmas Day is getting a 'big gay party'. (Queer House Party)
Queer House Party, a London-based DJ collective, is throwing an event on Christmas Day to tackle isolation and loneliness in the LGBT+ community.
With the UK in the grips of a second wave of COVID-19, as many as 1.9 million are expected to spend Christmas alone. And even for those spending the holidays with family, isolation can still be a crippling issue.
“Christmas is the campest holiday of the year but can sometimes be the worst,” says Carla Ecola, director at LGBT+ homelessness charity The Outside Project.
“Our community can feel isolated in their own homes, many don’t have any connection to family the towns they grew up in, or are still struggling to find their queer family in big towns like London.”