Queer Ranch Festival 2026 Lineup Announced for Lesbos

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FLINTA Festival Returns to Sappho's Island

Queer Ranch Festival returns to Skala Eressos for its fifth edition, scheduled May 18–23, 2026, on the Greek island of Lesbos—birthplace of Sappho and self-proclaimed "queer utopia". The FLINTA-focused event (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender) deploys six days of programming across multiple village locations rather than a single fenced site, blending internationally recognised electronic acts with a rebetiko Greek band, cinema screenings, workshops and beach parties.

Blasha & Allatt, Steffi & Virginia, Rachel Noon, PEPIITA, Miss Ray and Lesbian On Ecstasy lead the 2026 billing, joined by residents TAMARA and G I N A. (Original source) The event enforces a strict anti-oppression framework—#noTERFs, #noSWERFs, #noRacism—explicitly coding the space as both dance retreat and political sanctuary. With 2025 tickets already exhausted, the festival's hybrid model of club curation, rural tourism and lesbian heritage pilgrimage continues to scale. (Tickets - Queer Ranch Festival | QRF 2026)

Blasha Allatt and Steffi Lead 2026 Lineup

Blasha & Allatt and Steffi & Virginia anchor the 2026 edition alongside Rachel Noon, PEPIITA, Miss Ray, Claude Emmanuelle, and Lesbian On Ecstasy, blending Berlin-rooted techno with hybrid live sets that match the festival's experimental ethos. (Queer Ranch Festival 2026 · Lesbos - Events - freiburg.pink) The programming spans "various locations" in Skala Eressos rather than a single stage, dispersing club nights, beach parties, and a Rebetiko Greek Band performance across the village.

Residents TAMARA (GE), G I N A, and Snack2snack complement the international headliners, while the festival's origin in Ohana—a Lesbos-based women's collective that initially pitched "the best party of the summer, 3 days of music and much more"—remains visible in its community-first structure. (Ohana Queer Ranch Festival. - Chuffed) The 2026 expansion to six days positions Queer Ranch closer to a hybrid retreat model, where "stimulating workshops," cinema screenings, and "ranch life" intersect with nighttime programming designed to sustain political intention alongside hedonism. (Original source)

Beach Parties Meet Anti-Oppression Club Politics

The festival's structure answers a practical question: how do you fuse club culture with political education on a dispersed Aegean site? Queer Ranch abandons the fenced-in arena model, spreading programming across multiple venues in Skala Eressos. Attendees move between DJ sets, wild swimming spots, and workshops designed to interrogate power dynamics within queer spaces. The organisers describe this as "ranch life," a deliberate blurring of festival and communal living. Bookings reflect this hybridity. Blasha & Allatt bring their hardware-driven techno, while Steffi & Virginia anchor the deeper end of the electronic spectrum.

Sources

• Original source
• Tickets - Queer Ranch Festival | QRF 2026
• Queer Ranch Festival 2026 · Lesbos - Events - freiburg.pink (2025-05-21)
• Ohana Queer Ranch Festival. - Chuffed

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