Mondohomo
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MondoHomo Dirty South is an alternative queer
music & arts festival that debuted in Atlanta in June 2007, during the first U.S. Social Forum. The first MondoHomo was created by Kiki Carr and Nikki Chotas, and inspired by Olympia, Washington
's Homo-a-Gogo Festival.
MondoHomo Dirty South 2008 took place over Memorial Day
weekend in Atlanta. It is the biggest showcase of HomoHop in the South, and one of the significant showcases in the U.S., along with Oakland's PeaceOut festival.
In addition to HomoHop, MondoHomo features queer punk
, rock, DJs, spoken word
, drag
, burlesque
, games and workshops. MondoHomo is dedicated to queer radical politics in the South, and towards that end, emphasizes DIY politics and culture.
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...
music & arts festival that debuted in Atlanta in June 2007, during the first U.S. Social Forum. The first MondoHomo was created by Kiki Carr and Nikki Chotas, and inspired by Olympia, Washington
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...
's Homo-a-Gogo Festival.
MondoHomo Dirty South 2008 took place over Memorial Day
Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War...
weekend in Atlanta. It is the biggest showcase of HomoHop in the South, and one of the significant showcases in the U.S., along with Oakland's PeaceOut festival.
In addition to HomoHop, MondoHomo features queer punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, rock, DJs, spoken word
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
, drag
Drag (clothing)
Drag is used for any clothing carrying symbolic significance but usually referring to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of another gender. The origin of the term "drag" is unknown, but it may have originated in Polari, a gay street argot in England in the early...
, burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
, games and workshops. MondoHomo is dedicated to queer radical politics in the South, and towards that end, emphasizes DIY politics and culture.