The festival coincided with the host Market Theatre’s 50th anniversary. Performers Gerard Bester and Sandi Dlangalala in “The Breasts of Tiresias”, exploring the lived experience of being a trans man performed at the first Queer Festival at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg at the weekend. People came out in numbers to the inaugural five-day Queer Festival which ran from 21 to 25 October at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg.