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Music / Transgender

‘Political correctness ebbs and flows. It’s all bollocks’

The inspirational comedian and musician Jordan Gray says she is made to feel 'minority of the month'

Features / Drag

Review: Alyssa’s Search for a Star

This drag contest has quickly established itself as a fabulous and energising night out

Theatre / Shakespeare

The Bard beyond binaries

Bristol Old Vic has begun its new co-production of Twelfth Night with a twist on gender

Theatre / theatre

‘The gay community is still seen as an impenetrable other’

A new play asks difficult questions about chemsex, racism and consent

Features / lip sync

Lip syncing isn’t just for drag queens

A new one-off lip sync night means – for one night only – we can all be our favourite diva

Theatre / LGBT theatre

All hail the Kween

Writer of hit Fringe musical Prom Kween discusses this story of non-binary identity

Music / Interviews

‘I wrote the song to understand where my internal fears were coming from’

Erin Rae is a gay singer-songwriter from Nashville

Theatre / gay rights

‘Once vice got established it spread like a pestilence’

Thousands of gay men were incarcerated pre-1967 and a new performance recounts this traumatic era

Features / Cabaret

Here come the boiz

Brizzle Boiz returns to Smoke and Mirrors for their summer spectacular on August 30

Features / old market assembly

Queer Summer Mingle at Old Market Assembly

Queer Summer Mingle is a non-political LGBTQ+ event that challenges the transphobia of TERFs

Theatre / Drag

Is this the hottest drag night in Bristol?

A Hot Night in the City is an extra-special, all-singing drag night at Old Market Assembly

Features / Talking LGBT+ Bristol

‘So much has changed since I worked under the cloud of Section 28’

Jane Bolam says that there's still more to do in including LGBT+ people into schools

Features / LGBTQ+

‘If we don’t have equality inside our ranks, then we will never see it outside’

Branwen Hughes says the LGBT+ community needs to change itself before it can change society

Features / pride

‘There should be no restriction placed on desire, appearance and behaviour’

Tom Nutting says everyone, and not just LGBT+ people, would benefit if gender was reimagined

Features / Cabaret

‘Witches have been unfairly hunted and there’s a lot of power in that imagery for queer people’

An extra-special burlesque cabaret night celebrates queerness and witchcraft

Features / Bristol Pride

‘We do it for the LGBT+ community’

Daryn Carter celebrates how proud he is of Bristol Pride

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