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Events are listed by city, then by type. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to lgbt@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Kirstyn Smith. people who want to make new friends in LGBT company. Pussy Whipped Festival Fri 25–Sun 27 Apr, times vary. £6 in advance; £8 on the door. Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh
College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. Three-dayer organised by Edinburgh’s queer-feminist underground music night, with gigs, club nights, films and workshops. See preview, below. FREE LGBT Film Nights Fri 25 Apr, 6.30–9.30pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. Screenings of feature-length films, shorts and unusual offerings with an LGBT focus. FREE The Big LGBT Music Jam Sat 3 May, 1–4pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. Music-making in a creative and supportive environment. G Spot Tue 6 May, 8.30pm. £5. The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. Comedy, and cabaret with Jojo Sutherland and a host of different guests. FREE Bi & Beyond Wed 7 May,
7–9pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. Bisexual (and beyond) people get together for social activities. FREE Just for Men Wed 14 May, 6.30–8.30pm. Woodland Creatures, 260–262 Leith Walk, 629 5509. Social group for gay, bisexual and trans men. Clubs Dive! Sun 27 Apr, 9pm–3am. £7 (£5). Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. Eclectic underground queer party, blending spoken word, live music and comedy with a kaleidoscopic soundtrack and a filthy disco to finish. FREE Bears in the East Sat 10 May, 10pm–2am. New Town Bar, 26b Dublin Street, 538 7775. Two floors of fun, including an exclusively male downstairs bar.
GLASGOW
Activities & Events FREE Thomas Abercromby: Mama Until Sat 19 Apr, 11am–5.30pm. The Virginia Gallery, 45 Virginia Street, 552 5699. Work dealing with childhood abandonment and time passing. FREE Hudinilson Jr Thu 17 Apr, 11am–8pm. Fri 18–Mon 21 Apr, 11am–6pm. McLellan Galleries, 270 Sauchiehall Street, 565 4100. This exhibition reviews 35 years of the artist’s practice. Part of Glasgow International. FREE LGBT Book Group Thu 17 Apr, 6.30–8pm. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, 339 7223. Delve into contemporary fiction, information books and more at this monthly book discussion group. FREE Prime Time Sun 27 Apr, 3pm. Gay Men’s Health, 30 Bell Street, 552 0112. Gay and bisexual men over 40 can meet others in an informal setting. Clubs Birdcage Fri 18 Apr, 11pm–3am. £5. Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. Special guest is DENA – a Berlin- based songwriter and vocalist inspired by 90s pop/hip-hop and R&B. TYCI Sat 19 Apr, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight (or if you write ‘TYCI’ on your knuckles); £2 after. Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. A live set from Irish party pop band Wonder Villains, and Subcity Radio’s Natives Are Restless on the decks. Misbehavin’ Thu 1 May, 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). The Cathouse, 15 Union Street, 248 6606. Dolly Daydream and Drucifer serve up a steamy mix of electro, disco and sleazy sounds. Yes! Fri 2 May, 8pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after (students £3). The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. The emphasis is firmly on music from classic artists such as David Bowie and The Smiths and Blondie plus cutting edge acts like Django Django and Grimes. FREE Bears in the West Fri 2 May, 9pm–1am. Underground Glasgow, 6a John Street, 553 2456. With DJ Corkie providing the sounds and plenty of sweets to go round. Pretty Ugly Sat 10 May, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, 221 7705. Indie rock’n’roll, electro beats and 60s soul.
EDINBURGH Activities & Events FREE Prime Time Sun 20 Apr, 2–4.30pm. Gay Men’s Health, 10 Union Street, 556 1309. See above. FREE Edinburgh Gay Men’s Book Group Wed 23 Apr, 7–9pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. A book club for gents with a lust for reading. FREE Icebreakers Wed 23 Apr, 7.30–9.30pm. The Regent, 2 Montrose Terrace, 661 8198. Social group for
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QUEER/FEMINIST FESTIVAL PUSSY WHIPPED Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Fri 25–Sun 27 Apr
Pussy Whipped co-organiser Ste McCabe has a perfect soundbite to hand which sums up the ethos of this weekend-long extension of his (and Lukasz Waclawski’s) queer and feminist-focused music night. ‘We want to inspire people to do shit themselves rather than wait for the mainstream to spoonfeed them some dull LGBT pop star,’ he says. ‘It’s very important to us that this isn’t an exercise in mainstream LGBT and feminist issues. We want to present the radical, the strange, the hidden, the furious, the more marginalised identities and ideas. We don’t want this to resemble Gay Pride events in any way. Pussy Whipped performers are weird, punk, anti-capitalist, confrontational, feminist and proud.’
The 200-capacity event will see Pussy Whipped expand into club nights, workshops, poetry and independent film events, with McCabe particularly looking forward to artists including Poland’s Zdrada Palki (‘she’s a kitsch, electro pop queer agitator, like watching a Polish 1990s Top of the Pops, only with radical lyrics about pro-abortion rights’), Australia’s Shiny Shiny (‘who play electronic irons, complete with full ironing boards and 50s housewife attire’) and Edinburgh singer Liz Cronin, who writes songs about queer mental health issues. ‘The general public bore us shitless,’ says McCabe defiantly. ‘Pussy Whipped isn’t for the general public. It’s for people – queers, women or otherwise – who don’t want to be swallowed up into mainstream culture and repackaged with nice hairdos and acceptable middle-class language. That’s not liberation, it’s sameness. We’re for the outsiders within the outsiders. W e’re the working class, the punks, the people you won’t find in gay bars. We’re the people who Stonewall shudder at. We’re the ones “giving LGBT people a bad name”.’ (David Pollock)
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