Collect:if Presents: Gaysian Superheroes

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

A focus on the work of two British-South Asian queer women filmmakers across different generations. Activist and director Pratibha Parmar’s work centres on gender, race, and LGBT issues. Her groundbreaking Khush (1991), for instance, portrays lesbian women and gay men in India and the Indian diaspora discussing acceptance and embracing of their sexuality. We explore […]

Free – £8

Filmmaker Social

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

Are you a queer filmmaker working in Scotland or beyond? Come and join us for some networking, schmoozing, and boozing. A chance to meet others who are LGBTQ+ and interested or already working in filmmaking. Share ideas, discuss your projects, or just hang out and have a nice time. We hope to be joined by […]

Free

Sad Girl Cinema

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

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 three themes: therapy, the mental health ward, and tortured geniuses and tragic muses, SGC navigates a whole bunch of pop cultural clichés […]

Free – £8

Arika Presents: The Polymath, or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman

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

Fred Barney Taylor's documentary offers a portrait of Samuel R. Delany, black gay man, radical, and revered author of science fiction novels. Delany is also a well-regarded literary critic and academic with a candid and iconoclastic approach. He recounts his Harlem childhood, experiences with psychotherapy, and promiscuous adventures in the infamous Everard Baths and other […]

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

Glasgow School of Art Pornography Society Presents: M4M

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

M4M showcases queer sex on camera with a variety of vivid, lurid, and fluid short films and clips. Presenting scenes from prominent gay porn company productions including Falcon Studios’ pioneering 1983 film, Spokes, and the infamous Devil's Dick scene from Treasure Island Media's 2006 Breeding Season. Also featuring a selection of works by Zachary Hutchinson, […]

Free – £8

Looking Awry: Nowhere

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

Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid,” Nowhere follows 18-year-old Dark Smith through a day in the teenager’s life in LA. Dark fails to get the emotional support he craves from girlfriend Mel, who is also involved with a girl named Lucifer, while Dark moons over hunky Montgomery. A […]

Free – £8

Party: LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS BABADOOK BALL

Drygate Brewing Co 85 Drygate, Glasgow, United Kingdom

You know what’s scarier than the crushing weight of unfulfilled heteronormative pressure? Yup, pretty much nothing! So come all you perfect lil queer babies and dance among your affective family one last time before SQIFF shuts up shop for another year. Hosted at DRYGATE BREWERY, LUYD presents a night of fresh queers, craft beers, and […]

£5

Free Family Film: Finding Dory

Platform The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Dory (voiced by gay rights hero Ellen DeGeneres) is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every ten seconds or so. The one thing she can remember is that she somehow became separated from her parents as a child. With help from her friends, Nemo and Marlin, Dory embarks on an epic […]

Free

Are We Queer Yet?: SQIFF at GoMA

gallery of modern art, Glasgow Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The huge beautiful hall in the GoMA has been left free and open for SQIFF to play with, so what do you think we did? Built a queer teenager’s bedroom, of course! Come lounge and hang out in our fully interactive installation. There will even be equipment to watch the LGBTQ+ short film DVDs piled […]

Free
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