Three, two, one - action
I always describe Sink The Pink as the social misfits and broken biscuits. We're
the kind of people that all come together that have been excluded.
I would say I started Sink The Pink because I needed it. I just couldn't find a place where I
felt as though I could be fully myself. Me and my friend we just said right, life has got to be
better than this and really simply we wrote a list of all the things that brought us joy in life and
those things were a place where there was no rules we love dressing up, we like being ridiculous
we just wanted to create somewhere that felt safe and Sink The Pink was born.
We're like one giant detention class of oddballs and rejects that then find each
other and find power in our differences and not in the things that make us nice or normal. We
don't want to be that, we want to be hot messy feral gorgeousness. There's a description!
The first time I went to Sink The Pink was a galactic feeling of - I didn't realize I
needed this I didn't realize a place like this existed I think as queer people we spend most
of our life trying to either fit in or trying to blend in and trying to be invisible so for
me performing is basically like my inner child allowing it to be free and to do what it wants
i grew up listening to kylie minogue i learned english to like i should be so lucky like as
a northern asian queer boy you feel like you're alone when you find your family you can do bigger
things together i think it's crucial that lgbtq plus people find those spaces where
they can thrive where they can have relationships where they can succeed where they can be winners
because those spaces in society are not really geared towards us we get on with it we fit in but
do we want to fit in in life i don't a lot of us don't always come from backgrounds
where we are necessarily fully accepted having these spaces where we can like uplift each other
platform each other give unconditional love and support is like what keeps us safe
gosh sometimes it's really great to create an illusion and and get people outside of themselves
you know have fun be excited be stimulated forget the world performing is not just about me looking
good i mean but it's you know it's about telling a story it's about telling your past
telling your troubles your hardships and again telling your joys it's telling you
nothing can ever be making that one little queer kid or trans kid or lesbian kid or
whoever this child is just go i feel a part of something and i've done my job
how do i feel about seeing the pain coming to an end oh i think the pain has not only impacted on
my life but it's actually transformed who i am i feel like we've all somehow saved each other
we're just in it together we've given each other so much strength you always want an
end to the story life isn't got an end oh my god they have just changed the way
people see themselves and change the way i've saw myself i feel very comfortable in saying
it's changed the queer landscape in london and i think that's been brilliant
you gotta see this beauty move i just need to open my legs a second like this
beautiful don't know smoking mirrors all the way i can't say that oh i've forgotten what we asked