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Workshop: Working Class LGBTQ People in Film and TV

Media Education 183 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Beginning with clips from TV and film, we examine how LGBTQ working-class identities have been demonised, patronised, and romanticised onscreen, before considering representation we would like to see in future. We will also think about how cultural venues can be made more welcoming to working-class people. This workshop is for working-class people (background and/or current […]

Free

Fox and His Friends (Inverness)

Eden Court Bishops Road, Inverness, United Kingdom

In 1970s West Germany, a young working-class gay man wins the lottery and is taken advantage of by his overbearing bourgeois lover. New German Cinema superstar and queer filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder created his most explicit survey of gay culture in Fox and His Friends and stamped his trademark, very cynical impression of human relationships […]

£5 – £6

Play the Devil

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Greg is a studious 18-year-old from a working-class Trinidadian neighbourhood. He dreams of attending university thanks to a scholarship but his plans are put at risk by James, a wealthy married man who becomes sexually obsessed with him. When Greg pushes back against James, is it because he's not interested or because he's unable to […]

Free – £8

SQIFF Shorts: Defiant Dykes

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Proudly presenting dykes defying society, each other, themselves, and the demands and expectations of both hetero and queer culture. A feisty granny drags her granddaughter out of the closet, 3 Butch/Femme and Stud/Fem lesbian couples from working-class backgrounds share fragments from their lives, a 17-year-old from a West Bank settlement goes to a gay club […]

Free – £8

Beautiful Thing at Seamore

Seamore Community Cinema 304 Maryhill Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom

During a long, hot summer in South London, Jamie is bunking off school more than usual, escaping to the TV and flat in the Thamesmead estate where he lives with his mother. Next door lives Leah who’s been kicked out of school and spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the same block […]

Free – £8

Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag)

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The rock documentary and political manifesto Bixa Travesty depicts the life of Brazilian musician and spoken word artist Linn da Quebrada, a self-proclaimed ‘tranny fag,’ who uses her body and music as weapons to fight machismo, transphobia, racism, and conformity. Quebrada and performance partner Jup do Bairro speak candidly from their lived experience as queers […]

SQIFF Shorts: Overcome

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Strong narratives of queer characters who are occasionally overcome but mostly do the overcoming are contained in this programme of gutsy shorts. A trans man is bullied when his gender is outed at a new workplace, a queer woman faces homophobic banter at her hair salon, a trans woman visits the family home after her […]

Outitude

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Featuring interviews and discussions with members of the Irish LGBTQI+ community of all ages and walks of life, Outitude delves into the lives of rural and urban lesbians, poets, writers, activists, self-professed bar dykes, and queer and curious women. Telling tales of coming out, experiences of homophobia and the varied types of activism that demonstrate […]

SQIFF Shorts: Bodies and Borders

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The most urgent issues surrounding identity and oppression revolve around bodies and borders. In Being Okey, a gay Nigerian man is denied asylum in Switzerland and consequently caught between the constant fear of being sent home and hope of a life in safety. ABEO is an animation by Latinx artist Brenda M. Lopez Zepeda depicting […]

SQIFF Shorts: Weird and Wild

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

An encounter with a strange funeral procession in Bethnal Green, a family losing the plot after meeting their son’s trans girlfriend, a middle-aged gay man seemingly eerily affected by a forest camping trip, and queer feminist gangs doing battle in a violent, dystopian present. Weird and Wild consists of work by filmmakers expert in creating […]

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