LGBT

Classic play Staircase comes to Tron Theatre

Pared down adaptation of Charles Dyer’s 1960s drama

Some say the classics never go out of fashion – and the Tron will be hoping that this rings true when their pared down adaptation of Charles Dyer’s 1960s drama, Staircase, opens at the end of February. Last staged in London 45 years ago, the play…

February is LGBT History Month

Events on in Scotland are set promote awareness and understanding

‘It’s all about education, celebration and shared understanding,’ says Sue Sanders, co-chair of the LGBT History Month and co-founder of LGBT education group, Schools Out. Sanders saw how Black History Month was being used to promote interracial…

Café No 9 - New Edinburgh café off Leith Walk steps out usual gay hub

‘I think people are a bit sick of big chains and their coffee is a bit rubbish sometimes too . . .’

For a new LGBT café owner in Edinburgh, straying away from the pink-tinged pavements of Broughton Street may be a bold move, but one which Innes Drummond believes is necessary. Drummond’s venture Café No 9 recently opened in Croall Place off Leith…

Sex, Drag and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance

A how-to guide from the Godmother of Drag

A wise man (well, James Brown) once said this was a man’s world. That sentiment may broadly remain the same, but one wise woman has found us women a unique way into the club. Diane Torr, an artist working in dance, performance, installation, film and…

FrontRunners is Glasgow first running group for the LGBT community

Club combines social and keep-fit agenda

Runners of all ages and abilities are invited to pull on their trainers for the launch of Glasgow’s first running group for the LGBT Community. Glasgow Frontrunners (GFR) will celebrate their official inception at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Arc…

Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh collaborate on Panic Patterns at Glasgay! 2010

First collaboration from writing pair

Award-winning writers Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh live together and are in a long-term relationship, but until recently they’d never collaborated. Glasgay! director Steven Thomson asked if they’d be prepared to change that by co-penning a play for…

Pink Flamingos and Prayers for Bobby among of Glasgay! 2010 film highlights

Stonewall Uprising, Assume Nothing and Orlando also screening

The Stonewall riots of summer 1969 have been the subject of a feature film and numerous documentaries, but the new historical documentary, Stonewall Uprising, gives more information than any other film to date, telling the birth of Gay Liberation…

Derek McLuckie and Pauline Goldsmith bring Jean Genet’s The Maids to stage

All-male version of controversial play set for Glasgay!

‘It’s about play acting and status games,’ says Derek McLuckie of Jean Genet’s The Maids, an all-male version of which the Glaswegian actor will star in and co-direct at this year’s Glasgay! ‘It’s about how you’re never one person, you’re lots of…

Wendy Miller and Rachel Amey collaborate on The Bridge at Glasgay! 2010

New play explores theme of teenage suicide

The creative partnership behind one of the chief commissions at this year’s Glasgay! 2010 is one that the festival was itself instrumental in fostering. Wendy Miller met Rachel Amey last year, after Amey was cast in Miller’s Glasgay! 2009 drama Even…

Human Rights 10 Years On

To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Human Rights Act, as well as the 60th anniversary of the signing in Rome of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Legal Services Agency (LSA) is organising this major one-day conference looking at what…

Glasgay! 2010 highlights

Glasgow festival celebrates LGBT relationships

Panic Patterns Award winning Glasgow-based authors Zoé Strachan and Louise Welsh have collaborated on a gripping thriller in which two lovers witness sudden changes in bird migration patterns that herald impending disaster. The suspenseful exploration…

Bent and Brother to Brother get DVD release

LGTB DVD Round-Up

Director Rodney Evans’ intelligent, engaging Brother to Brother ●●●● (Peccadillo Pictures), a sleeper hit at the Sundance festival in 2004, explores the gay and lesbian subcultures of the Harlem Renaissance through the friendship between a young gay…

Evolve launch with Rhona Cameron

Edinburgh social networking event for gay professional ladies

Come along and help to launch Evolve, a new regular social networking event for gay professional ladies and their friends. Stand-up comedian and author Rhona Cameron will be in attendance to assist with the celebrations. Revolution, Chambers Street…

Susan Calman, Stephen K Amos and Bette/Cavett at Fringe 2010

LGBT Edinburgh Fringe Highlights

The List’s LGBT section is about to take a well-earned break (returning in September, folks), but before we head off on our holidays, there’s just time to let you know about some of the gay-friendly stuff that’s appearing at a Fringe Festival near you…

LGBT highlights from Edinburgh Fringe 2010

The List’s LGBT section is about to take a well-earned break (returning in September, folks), but before we head off on our holidays, there’s just time to let you know about some of the gay-friendly stuff that’s appearing at a Fringe Festival near you…

Cachín Cachán Cachunga!

The spectre of funding cuts looms heavily over the Scottish arts scene at the moment. One consequence of the forthcoming age of austerity may very well be a resurgence in low-fi events: regular cabaret and variety shows offering artists who can no…

Scott Agnew, Cheri Treiffel and Horse grace Pride Glasgow

Pride returns to Glasgow this fortnight following a two-year absence and an amicable split with Pride Scotia, its Edinburgh counterpart. To mark the 15th year of Pride in Scotland organisers have promised a memorable event, including a march from…

Neighbourhoods, Watch! - Leith Festival Vs West End Festival

In the East corner, Edinburgh’s Leith Festival! In the West corner, Glasgow’s West End Festival! Kirstin Innes adjudicates the battle of the community fests.

Ruby Fruit launches gay women's club in Glasgow

A criticism often levelled at the gay scene, both in Glasgow and Edinburgh, is that there’s a dearth of club nights for women – particularly women over the age of 30. Fed up with this situation, a quartet of Glasgow girls are launching an alternative…

Velvet re-launch party

PREVIEW CLUB Velvet Re-Launch Party The SpeakEasy, Edinburgh, Sat 8 May Velvet ladies have more than one reason to celebrate this fortnight. Not only is the much-missed club night for gay and bisexual women and their male LGBTI buddies returning…

Leisurely Walk along the Union Canal

While their regular activities include running, rock climbing and mountaineering, the Gay Outdoor Club is running a special free event this fortnight to gently introduce new members to the great outdoors. The Union Canal, which runs from Edinburgh to…

Artists Rooms: Diane Arbus

An accusation often levelled at Diane Arbus is that she was an indulged rich girl who voyeuristically exploited the poor, the disabled and the sexually deviant in her work. Certainly the black and white photographs that comprised her ‘contemporary…

Edinburgh's LGBT Arts Festival 2010

Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the LGBT Arts Festival has returned to the capital for another four-week programme aimed at budding creative types. This year’s festival, funded by the People’s Postcode Trust, features workshops in…

The Queer Ball Launch Party

The venerated Lothians Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Ball may have gone to the great gathering place in the sky, but those who love dressing up and making merry have a new reason to dig out their glad rags. The Queer Ball Launch Party, which pitches up at…

New musical celebrates venerated piece of lesbian history Club Gateways

Club Gateways has a special place in LGBT history as the longest surviving lesbian nighclub in the world. The venue, on London’s Kings Road, opened in 1930 and attracted celebrities such as Joyce Grenfell, Quentin Crisp and Joan Collins in its 1960s…