LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH

CINE[STHESIA]

Kelvin Hall, Glasgow

8th February bit.ly/CINE-STHESIA

The National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall have collaborated with Solar Bear to select films and speakers for an evening of free queer film. Two significant films have been dug from the archives, one from 1983 and another 1997. The former is an STV documentary called Coming Out, which showed Scotland’s attitude towards homosexuality during that period. The latter is a Channel 4 film, Highlanders Too, featuring gay men from the Scottish Highlands discussing their ‘experiences and double lives’. There are then two recent films, both produced by Solar Bear, that show modern Scottish queer experiences and which will be introduced by their directors.

Queer Exhibition

Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh

26th January till 28th February oceanterminal.com

A space of stories and memories, of identity and community, of activism and society. The collection is of everything from daily life: clothes, photographs, letters, campaign materials and more.

Not only is there a physical space, but an accompanying podcast – Queer Edinburgh: The Tapes – and a new digitally accessible map and walking trail called ‘A Walk Around Queer Edinburgh’ to enhance your appreciation of this city and its rich queer history.

Queer As Punk

The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh

11th February visitscotland.com/info/events/queer-aspunk-p2753091

All queer, all punk! Goth GF, Fingering at the Disco, Dear Srrrz. Prepare your torn garments and screaming-singing voice and head down for a night of deep dirty bass and sick drums.

QUEER THEORY: PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

Glasgow

14th February instagram.com/queertheoryglasgow

Hosted by the glittering Tom Harlow, the evening is a sculpted sanctuary of seduction, sensuality, and sex, from a ‘wanton procession of artists and transgressives’. Burlesque, comedy, live music, spoken word, and the wonderfully ambiguous phrase ‘performance art’ is used in the marketing too, all rounded off by DJ sets till one in the morning!

FRI 24 MAR USHER HALL, EDINBURGH

SAT 25 MAR SEC ARMADILLO, GLASGOW

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