In photos: Queer style and self expression at Body Movements festival

Exclusive images of joyous celebration of London’s queer community, captured by photographers Zenhofer and Courteney Frisby.

Body Move­ments has come along way in just three years. Found­ed by pro­duc­er and DJ Saoirse Ryan and Clay­ton Wright, a stal­wart of lead­ing LGBTQI+ col­lec­tive Lit­tle Gay Broth­er, Body Move­ments is a cel­e­bra­tion of the depth and breadth of the queer elec­tron­ic music com­mu­ni­ty in Lon­don. It has since become a touch point to bring togeth­er so many artists, crews, col­lec­tives and a home for dynam­ic queer identities.

Body Move­ments’ third edi­tion took over 16 indus­tri­al spaces in Hack­ney Wick, East Lon­don on Sat­ur­day July 29 in a mul­ti-venue fes­ti­val unit­ing bod­ies across queer club cul­ture, elec­tron­ic music, art and more. The fes­ti­val wel­comed 5,000 joy­ous peo­ple and fea­tured an eclec­tic vari­ety of LGBTQI+ col­lec­tives from across the UK and beyond. The event also raised an impres­sive £11,002 for Lon­don Trans Pride, its char­i­ty partner.

Pho­tog­ra­phers Zen­hofer (gallery above) and Courteney Fris­by (gallery below) doc­u­ment­ed all the colour, cre­ativ­i­ty and queer­ness of the event and shared exclu­sive images with Huck. They cap­tured high­lights of the all-day­er, which ran long into the night, includ­ing queer dance par­ty Chap­ter 10 get­ting the after­noon mov­ing at the new Unit C ware­house space, Jay Jay Revlon’s vogu­ing antics at Stu­dio 94 and a clos­ing set from Body Move­ments co-founder Saoirse Ryan, in which she thanked every­one for tak­ing up this space and loads of oth­er space.”

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