LGBT Glasgow.

Coming Out + Introduction

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Thursday 18 January, 2024 5.35pm Hailed as the first and only feature about gay life ever produced by communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, 9 November 1989.As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him to live within the ‘norm’. […]

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Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow

Young Soul Rebels 4k Restoration and Discussion

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Monday 23 October, 2023 8 p.m. A landmark for Black – and Queer – British film, Isaac Julien’s iconic, beautifully crafted 1991 period piece has been newly remastered by the BFI. A convincing picture of late 70s London, youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-queer love story set days before the Queen’s Silver […]

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Friday, September 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow

LGBT + History Month at GFT

This year marks 20 years since Section 28, the law that banned “promotion of homosexuality” in the UK, was repealed. To mark that anniversary, Glasgow Film Theatre will promote some films that celebrate and explore LGBT+ stories! 3 -12 March, 2023 ay GFT Daniel, based on true events, this intense, emotional drama speaks of a […]

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Visible Cinema: Encounters Pride Shorts

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Tuesday 28 June, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Visible Cinema is GFT’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing friendly film programme. Featuring a captioned or subtitled screening followed by a post-film discussion with integrated BSL and on-screen Speech to Text Service. For this Pride month, Visible Cinema is delighted to screen Encounters Queer Joy film programme, a selection of shorts celebrating the […]

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Glasgow Pride Mardi Gla – U of G Group

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Saturday 16 July, 2022 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Event by University of Glasgow and Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council (GUSRC) University of Glasgow The SRC are going to Glasgow’s Pride March! Come along to Glasgow’s Pride AKA Mardia Gla. University of Glasgow students are celebrating their LGBTQIA+ community! The route is still to be confirmed by the […]

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, LGBT Glasgow

Flee Glasgow Film Theatre

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12 – 24 February, 2022 Part of LGBT History Month Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, Flee is a testament to friendship, family and acceptance. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, […]

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Shoot Your Shot PRIDE

16th and 17 July, 2021 Glasgow’s number one inclusive and alternative queer party Shoot Your Shot announce massive PRIDE celebration at SWG3 SWG3, 100 Eastvale Pl, Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8QG DJs: DJs: LEZZER QUEST TAAHLIAH Junglehussi Bonzai Bonner Mi$$ Co$miX Plantainnchips Performers: Performers: Gloria Fran.K &VIP Ruby Rambazzle Femme Castratice  Purina Alpha Host: Ann […]

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The Coming Back Out Ball – National Theatre of Scotland

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(Photo of Karen Dunbar credit James Chapelard) A Night of Love, Laughter, Music and Celebration 26 June, 6.30pm, Online Pay What You Wish £10 – £30 – Buy Tickets Booking closes 12 noon on Monday 21 June, so don’t miss your chance to join this truly special event. The Coming Back Out Ball, a fabulous […]

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Saturday, June 19, 2021 | Filed under: LGBT Glasgow, Zoom and online events

In Conversation with Dean Atta and gainAgain

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Govanhill Queer Community Banner Project Event by Govanhill Baths Community Trust Online with Facebook Live Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 18:00 UTC Free Join poet Dean Atta and artist gainAgain (Drew Taylor Wilson) for this special in conversation event, celebrating the Govanhill Queer Community Banner Project in honour of LGBT+ History month. The banner weaves together […]

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Game On: Queer Disruptions in Sport screening plus Q&A

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Q & A 12 October, 2020 – 6 p.m. Hosted by Scottish Queer International Film Festival and LEAP Sports Scotland Free event Online event – tickets Evenbrite Game on: Queer Disruptions in Sport is a documentary which shines a light on the experiences of those with diverse identities within grassroots sport. The film features the stories of […]

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LGBTI Elders Online Social Dance Club

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Dust off your dancing shoes, charge your glasses and get ready for ONLINE DANCE CLUB! 7 June 2.00pm – 3.30pm (BST) please email for the link PRIDE FOR ALL LGBTI+ Elders Social Dance Club – ONLINE We might not be able to meet in person, but we can use the magic of technology to connect, […]

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SQIFF Shorts Out of the Archives! CCA

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Sat 8 February 2020 6pm – 7.30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 As part of LGBT History Month Scotland 2020, SQIFF presents a programme of short films looking back into largely unseen and undiscovered aspects of the history of queer Scottish representation in the 20th century. Featuring archival documentaries and short films […]

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Friday, February 7, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month

Cine(thesia) Coming Out, Kelvin Hall

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Wednesday 5 February, 2020 – 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. This screening celebrates LGBT History Month. Hear from Scotland’s queer community – with film from the Moving Image Archive and oral histories from Scotland’s Sounds and OurStory Scotland. Event on Facebook LGBT History Month Scotland

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Thursday, January 30, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month

Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2019 Announces Full Programme

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Wednesday 2 until Sunday 6 October, 2019 SQIFF celebrates its fifth birthday in style with a big screen showing of Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, a toast to Latinx Legends, a SQIFF X Vogue Scotland WERX extravaganza of ballroom culture, a night of queer porn made by and about Deaf and Disabled people and a look […]

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Friday, October 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow

LUX Scotland presents: where did we land Fi Dem 1 and 11

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2 October, 2019 – 3.30 p.m. CCA London-based curator and artist Rabz Lansiquot screens their new moving image essay where did we land, an ongoing experiment interrogating the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and reproduced in film and media, and parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem Series, a continued […]

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Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, LGBT Glasgow

Dialogue: Niven Govinden and Season Butler

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Thursday May 23, 209 11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. John Smith Book Shop, University of Glasgow,  The Fraser Building, 65 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QF Exciting event with Niven Govinden and Season Butler launching new books by Dialogue Books (a publisher of books for, about, by #BAME #LGBTQI+ #disability & #workingclass communities.) Praise for Niven […]

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Saturday, May 18, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, LGBT Glasgow

Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2018

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Wed 5 December — Sun 9 December 2018 SQIFF returns with another programme packed with all things LGBTQ+ and film. Across five days expect the very best in queer cinema from around the world, including a Queer Arab strand in partnership with dardishi; The Scottish premiere of Jason Barker’s trans parenthood doc A Deal with the Universe, with […]

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Friday, December 7, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow

SQIFF18 A Girl at My Door CCA

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Fri 7 December 2018 12:30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Promising police cadet Young-nam is sent to work in a small seaside village after her lesbian relationship is outed to her bosses in Seoul. Here, she meets a bullied teenager, Sun Dohee, and quickly becomes her trusted […]

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SQIFF 2018

5 – 9 December, 2018 SQIFF 2018 – FIRST EVENTS ANNOUNCED AND ON SALE! Opening Night Shorts– Wednesday 5 December – an exciting and boundary-pushing night of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world, all seen in Scotland for the first time. Headlining is VISIBLE, created by SQIFF favourite Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who […]

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Festival Fortnight 2018

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Festival Fortnight is a two week programme of events coordinated by LEAP Sports to encourage LGBTI people and their friends to find out more about what sport and physical activities are available to them, to try something new and to get more active. LEAP Sports envisage a future where everyone can access, participate, enjoy and excel in sport, no matter […]

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LGBT University of Glasgow Walking Tour 5 June, 2018

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12 p.m. – 1 p.m. The UofG LGBT+ Staff Network invite you to join them for a stroll as part of LEAP Sports’ Festival Fortnight. Enjoy a walking tour around the campus of the fourth oldest University in the world. Discover more about the contributions of the LGBT+ community to this fixture of the West […]

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Queer Classics Film Festival, CCA, 25– 26 May, 2018

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CCA Fri 25 May — Sat 26 May 2018 Tickets: £4.50 (£2.50) + £1 Booking fee Weekend pass: £30 + £1 Booking fee CCA Events Two days of screenings depicting iconic representations of LGBTQ + people across the decades. From the “gay boys” of Japan’s 1960s trans, sub culture in Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969; to the […]

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An Unashamed Claim to Visibility: films about queerness + dis/ability, CCA

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Thu 26 April 2018 7pm, Free/ £1/ £3/ £5/ £7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 As queer communities strive to embrace intersectional politics, those with a disability or functional diversity are often left behind. Despite the higher prevalence of disability among LGBTQIA+ communities, disabled, D/deaf, visually impaired, learning disabled, […]

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Stories Of Our Lives, Africa in Motion, Film Screening, The Flying Duck, Glasgow

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Thursday 19th April, 8pm. The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3AW “Stories of Our Lives is an intimate, masterly portrayal of Kenya’s LGBT community”- The Huffington Post Africa in Motion is delighted to be holding a screening of the critically acclaimed collection of short films Stories of Our Lives (2014) from Kenyan-native director […]

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120 BPM at GFT

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1 – 12 April, 2018 Revisiting elements of his own experience, Robin Campillo has created a bustling fresco of the personalities and politics of the ACT UP Paris LGBTQI community during the 1990s. The sense of urgency, authenticity and attention to detail is exemplary as individual stories come into sharper focus. We follow hot-headed Sean (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) […]

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Friday, April 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow

LGBT History Month, Film Screening and Discussion, STUC

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STUC LGBT+ Committee Thursday 22 February, 2018 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. An evening of short films and discussion as part of LGBT+ History Month! Screening some short films (BBC Queer Britain, My Lesbian Mums + TBC) followed by a lively panel discussion on the themes of the film, featuring Kate Adair and others. This […]

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Bridgit, Adulteress

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LUX Scotland presents: This screening brings together two recent works by Glasgow-based artists Jamie Crewe and Charlotte Prodger, Adulteress (2017) and BRIDGIT (2016) respectively, based in queerness, rurality, communality, care, and time. The screening is accompanied by a new publication designed by the artists, titled BRIDGIT, ADULTERESS, containing transcripts of each video and new elements […]

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Thursday, December 7, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow

SQIFF Sad Girl Cinema, CCA, Sat 30 September 2017

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Sat 30 September 2017 4.30pm, Free / £1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ / F-Rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 Sad Girl Cinema is an ongoing documentary film project exploring mental health narratives in screen culture created by queer writers Claire Biddles and Bethany Rose Lamont and designed by Maggie Webster. Sorted into […]

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Chavela, GFT, 28 September, 2017

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Co-directors Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi interweave candid stories told by Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas and those closest to her in this multi-faceted biographical film. An incomparable performer, she was also a lesbian woman who defied all social expectations, revolutionising music and challenging the stereotypical macho and hetero cultural norms of the times. This […]

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Blanche and Butch, The Tron, 14 – 16 September, 2017

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Birds of Paradise Theatre Company and The Tron present Blanche and Butch The Tron Theatre, 14 – 16 September, 2017 It was the best idea they’d ever had – three disabled drag queens – called ‘Heelz n Wheelz’ – it was sensational! But when the sparkles fade and tensions rise, a new way forward is […]

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