‘How I experienced a queer homecoming at Mighty Hoopla 2025’

Joe Baggs and Kaine Ruddach with the author, Ashley (Image: Author’s own)

After years of bearing witness to the annual bombardment on my social media of the glitter-soaked, scantily clad dressed attendees of a little pop-fuelled weekend event known as Mighty Hoopla, I finally made it to Brockwell Park for the first time last weekend – and the year JADE, Ciara and Kesha were headlining, to boot!

Walking on route to the music festival quickly clued me in that this just isn’t any music festival – it’s the queer festival outside of Pride. Following the horde of people walking from Clapham Common to the festival site was an experience in itself, and once I was through the gates, it was a whole other level. 

The attention to detail in the transformation of

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