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By Tim Boddy

1 November 2023

Kew Queer Nature Event 2023 Auntie Maureen inside Temperate House

Oliver Dixon

Music, drag, colour, garish looks, enchanting queer people – just my regular Saturday night. But this was London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, during its delightful event, a party for the celebration of diversity in plants and fungi.

Among the art and the performances, I loved drag king Beau Jangles singing 40s-inspired songs, DJ Auntie Maureen (pictured above), and Jeffrey Gibson’s “House of Spirits”, a radiant, large-scale artwork, suspended in Kew’s Temperate House.

But my highlight was strolling around taking in facts on bisexual flowers and asexual trees, while enjoying the fun, inclusive vibe. Humans can…

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