‘We do turn up the bass’: deaf ravers party at first Edinburgh deaf festival

Festival organisers say 2022 has been an exciting year for deaf culture but more opportunities are needed

In 2003, Troi Lee was queueing for a club with a group of friends when he noticed that others were being let in ahead of them. He approached security to ask what was going on, and was told: You lot are deaf, you aren't coming in."

Lee had never before experienced discrimination, despite having been a regular raver for a decade. He channelled his anger into setting up the UK's first deaf rave, to avoid all that nonsense".