LGBT

2010 preview: Great expectations

Favourite things are ending, exciting things are beginning and old things are coming back. 2010 is already shaping up to be a thrilling year and here are the 30 good reasons why we can’t wait

Ajamu X: Familiar Strangers

Artist Ajamu X has been working with Black and Minority Ethnic communities as well as members of the LGBTI community for over 20 years, exploring the ways that these marginalised communities operate outside the formal mechanisms of support. His new…

The Hot 100 2009

Compiled by List staff through a painstaking process of review and debate, the Hot 100 is the comprehensive list of Scottish creative talent, covering both individuals and organisations who’ve made a standout contribution to culture in 2009. This year’s…

Loud & Proud

Loud & Proud, Scotland’s LGBT choir, has come a long way in a short space of time. The a capella group, which performs its annual festive concert at the George Square Theatre this fortnight, started life as a ten-week singing course at the LGBT Centre…

The Rocky Horror Show

It’s time to do the Time Warp … yet again! For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, expect camp courting and frivolous fantasies in Richard O’Brien’s popular gender-bending musical starring David Bedella as Frank N Furter and the ubiquitous King of the Jungle…

LGBT DVD round-up

As winter edges ever closer, the temptation to batten down the hatches and spend the night in front of the box takes hold. As luck would have it there’s a batch of welcome re-releases and special editions of classic features and documentaries to keep…

Regina

Body of woman, heart of a king - and the legs too

From Glenda Jackson to Cate Blanchett, many an actress has enjoyed the challenge of playing the Virgin Queen. So why not a dancer – and a male one at that? Inspired by the varied portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, Tom Sapsford has created Regina, a dance…

Conversation piece - Dani Marti interview

Exploring gay men's health and sexuality through art

Dani Marti’s new exhibition, insideout, has been safely installed in the sh[out] space at Parnie Street as part of Glasgay! Yet the convoluted tale of how one of the show’s installations ended up in this space still sticks in the craw of the…

Glasgay! - Steven Thomson interview

2009 will be both one of Glasgay!’s best and most troubled years. The programme is stronger than ever, but as Glasgay! has grown in its cultural importance it has attracted new levels of criticism and controversy that now threaten to undermine its…

Glasgow: Glasgay!

From politics to partying, the history of the LGBT festival

There aren’t many arts festivals that could celebrate Maw Broon (one of the most traditional of Scots comic strip characters in Dundee’s DC Thomson stable, which also produces The Beano, The Dandy and Oor Wullie), take on board a diverse programme of…

Blue Moon 21st Anniversary

The UK's oldest gay café celebrates a milestone birthday

Today Edinburgh boasts a thriving gay scene that includes bars and clubs, cafés and shops, with the area between Broughton Street and Picardy Place now popularly known as the ‘Pink Triangle’. It wasn’t always thus, however. Until the mid-80s there was a…

Glasgay!

This year’s celebration of LGBT culture and art kicks off as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour reaches Glasgow. Featuring opening night drama Shank (3 Sep), Born in 68’s (pictured) tale of life and sexual politics in France (6 Sep) and…

Hitlist: Around Town

The best events, books and LGBT

Sheep Heid Inn Summer’s End Beer Festival, Launch of SEEDBOM, Bletherheads, Jeffrey Lewis’ Watchmen, Handmade Heaven, Mary Brennan, Dead Girls’ Dance Club

Made in God's Image

Defending the GOMA exhibition that brings together the Bible and the LGBTI

Anthony Schrag looks a bit stressed out when we meet. It’s been a big couple of weeks for the Gallery of Modern Art’s artist in residence, for reasons you may well have heard of. Made in God’s Image, a community outreach exhibition he organised to…

Tartan Clef Awards, Reclaiming the Rainbow and We Will Rock You

The Homecoming Scotland Tartan Clef Awards will this year take place on Fri 27 Nov at the SECC in Glasgow, in a bid to create a bigger profile for the event. Last year Peter Kay attended to award Sharleen Spiteri with her Outstanding Contribution to…

Activism - Meet the political activists

There’s been a lot of nostalgia for the 90s recently, as Blur, Take That and the Spice Girls reform (however fleetingly), and various media outlets (this one included) celebrate 15 years since the invention of a handy marketing tool called Britpop.

LGBT Edinburgh Fringe Highlights

This year’s Fringe features a good scattering of shows for those of an LGBT persuasion. Theatre pleasures range from dramatic monologues such as Jeffrey Solomon’s Mother/Son (Sweet Grassmarket, pictured above), which charts the writer/performer’s…

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour

FILM This year’s LLGFF contains a typically alluring mix of the classic and contemporary, the light-hearted and hard-hitting. Among the comedies, Baby Love, directed by Vincent Gareng, mines the consequences of a gay Parisian doctor’s decision to…

Pride Scotia

Scotland’s bi-annual LGBT celebration, Pride Scotia is returning to the capital with its usual array of provocative and outrageous happenings. Revellers are asked to assemble at noon on Sat 27 Jun at the City Chambers for speeches from local politicians…

LGBT at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

As ever, the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s ten-day showcase of screenings, talks, interviews and special events, there’s a decent sprinkling of films that are of particular interest to those of an LGBT persuasion. Those interested in a…

Before Stonewall

(87min) Forty years ago a small bar called the Stonewall Inn in a corner pocket of New York’s West Village sparked the legendary Stonewall riots that spearheaded the global gay liberation movement. In 1984, seasoned documentarian Greta Schiller shot…

Up the Glitter! and Queerbash

Two nights are starting up this fortnight which aim to breathe a bit of fresh air into the queer clubbing scene in Glasgow. The first of these is named (in shamelessly outré style) Up the Glitter!, and is the brainchild of Dawid Penkowicz and Anne…

Sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights/Drawn Out & Painted Pink

GROUP EXHIBITION While each work in GoMA’s striking and thoughtful social justice-related exhibition for 2009 can easily be traced back to a gender-related starting point, more universal ideals of love and tenderness are writ large throughout.

Vanessa: Look Mummy I’m Dancing

The profile and representation of transsexuals may have received a boost in recent years from such acclaimed films as Boys Don’t Cry and Transamerica, but there are still few opportunities for transsexual actors in the mainstream theatre and cinema.