MondoHomo Dirty South is an alternative
queer
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music & arts festival that debuted in
Atlanta
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in June 2007, during the first U.S. Social Forum. MondoHomo was the love child of Kiki Carr, Ria Pell and Nikki Chotas, and was inspired by
Olympia, Washington
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's Homo-a-Gogo Festival.
MondoHomo Dirty South 2008 took place over
Memorial Day
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It i ...
weekend in Atlanta. It was 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 featured 5 days of radical queer
punk
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, rock, DJs,
spoken word
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,
drag
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,
burlesque
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The last MondoHomo festival took place in 2012.
References
External links
MondoHomo on YoutubeWoo Girl! Mondo Homo & ATL Queer Herstory with Kiki SlaytanaMondoHomo on FacebookMondoHomo on Flickr
LGBTQ events in Georgia (U.S. state)
LGBTQ music festivals
Music festivals established in 2007
Music festivals in Georgia (U.S. state)
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