Feature_Pride & Prejudice measures such as a fence around the perimeter, which Zawada says tarnished the festival’s aesthetic as a free and open festival and proved to be a “massive expense.” Does she think that the government was taking aim at the festival’s Achilles heel – its budget? “Yes. The fence was the biggest thing in our budget and from a crowd management point-ofview it was completely pointless. But the guests respected the fences and even used them creatively, to dry their laundry and things,” she says.
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“Turkey is a place where two times two doesn’t make four,” says queer senior talent buyer Bu ra Davaslıgil of Istanbul-based booking agency/promoter Charmenko. “On paper, it hasn’t been illegal to be homosexual since 1858, the Ottoman Empire, but it’s still a taboo.” Taboo is a light way of putting it. Hate speech, violence, and discrimination have already put
