Queer Folks' Tales

Fruity, hilarious and moving LGBTQ+ storytelling show featuring stand-ups, writers, singers and more.

June 10th 2024 @ 7.30pm ; Glad Café, Glasgow

***** “Utterly fabulous” (The Q Review)

***** “Edinburgh’s most vibrant, authentic and exciting storytelling event” (The Wee Review)

Queer Folks’ Tales, our multiple 5 star rated, hugely popular LGBTQ+ storytelling show finally comes to Glasgow !

Following two years of sell out shows in Edinburgh, our very queer, funny and often moving LGBTQ+ storytelling show Queer Folks’ Tales is on tour around Scotland with a different stellar line up for every show. Queer storytellers and performers deliver hilarious, touching, occasionally shocking stories galore about queer lives, with many true stories of LGBTQ+ experience in Scotland today. Hosted by Edinburgh’s Turan Ali (producer of BBC drama/comedy), who is joined on Monday June 10th by local queer Glasgow talent, featuring storytelling stand-ups Kate Hammer and Colin Higgins, plus acclaimed singer-songwriter Josie Duncan.

LINE-UP DETAILS

Turan Ali has been producing, directing and writing BBC Radio dramas and comedies for over 20 years. He’s also a stage storyteller and stand up of very queer comedy with regular sell-out comedy and storytelling shows in Edinburgh, Vienna and Istanbul. His latest one man stand-up show, Horny Old Poof, tours internationally from May 2024.

Kate Hammer (originally from Canada) was forged in the comedy, writing, and performance scenes, now living it up in Glasgow. They have performed internationally as an improviser, stand-up, sketch comedian, and actor. The neurodivergent, anaemic, gluten-intolerant, queer writer and comedian of your wildest, well-edited dreams and a fantabulous storyteller.

Josie Duncan is an acclaimed singer-songwriter who won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award (2017). She has performed at so many festivals, lIke Celtic Colours (Canada), National Celtic Festival Australia, Tönder (Denmark), Hebridean Celtic Festival, Sidmouth Festival, plus with Scottish folk music community Bogha-frois : Queer Voices in Folk.

Colin Higgins is a rising star from the Glasgow comedy scene and has performed UK wide. He delights audiences with his cutting observations, brutal honesty and self-deprecating style. TV credits include the Billy Connolly docuseries 'Billy and Us' BBC Scotland. He has movingly performed his hilarious and vulnerable stories in Queer Folks’ Tales in Edinburgh.

With assistance from Creative Scotland.

Tickets £12

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Glad Cafe CIC, 1006A Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom