Not Safe For Queers is a self-managed LGBTQIA+ arts, culture and entertainment website. In its infancy, Not Safe For Queers began life as a review website, with their writers analysing and critiquing popular film and TV, and their use of queer tropes (a niche that was very loosely inspired by the now-dated Bechdel Test) Now, NSFQ’s team of all-queer identifying writers come from many varied backgrounds and cultures. And if an issue or a topic impacts them personally, they’ll be the ones to write about it—because they believe that an insider’s perspective will always be much richer and deeper than that of an outsider.
With the help of Pride Foundation, the ‘LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers Fund’ will allow NSFQ to pay a handful of emerging queer writers, helping them build a portfolio and kickstart their careers as journalists.
This small grant will allow NSFQ to commission one emerging queer writer per month over the course of six months to write on a topic or issue that they’re passionate about. This will provide them with a voice & the opportunity to build a small portfolio to show potential editors. In turn we may see more queer writers and journalists in the mainstream.
