Sober Nights for Queer Types

Event ideas for sober queers. Queer spaces and events in London that don't focus on/revolve around alcohol. Suggestions welcome!

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

26th July 7pm: David Hoyles Gymnasium. Expect: the best cabaret in the capital, David’s ab-crunching blend of high-wire improvisation, live art and protest at @BGWMC
NB: Alcohol will be served at this venue.

https://t.co/UZ8L43imHP

#SN4QT #sober #queer

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

26th July 7pm: Naked Boys Reading @nakedboysread. A literary salon featuring unclothed men. International events feature the sexiest of book-nerds reading to you in the buff @miranda_ldn

https://t.co/F7rgwkdz2e
https://t.co/IjOy3VWUw7

#SN4QT #sober #queer #nakedboysreading

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

22nd July: 'Bridges: Cruising Outside/In' @TheGloryLondon. INSIDE OUT CRUISING: An English film director, diarist, artist and author goes to Hampstead Heath. OUTSIDE IN CRUISING: Merges flirting, sex and politics with 70s, 80s, and early 90s clubbing.

https://t.co/Anovzq20gy

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

19th July 7pm: ‘After Louie’, and Q&A with director Vincent Gagliostro @TheCurtainLDN. ‘After Louie’ follows Sam, an artist and activist from ACT UP who lived through the early years of HIV/AIDS, convened by @RSHistCentre.

https://t.co/MvzFG3Q9Ae

#SN4QT #sober #queercinema

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

19th July 6.30pm: AIDS Histories and Legacies: 'Sunday's Child' reading and Q&A @bbkinstitutes. 'Sundays Child' explores the impact of Section 28 on HIV/AIDS services, stigma and awareness.

https://t.co/qe9H2B1fqs

#SN4QT #queer #london

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

19th July 7pm: The KoC Initiative at @redonldn. A showcase of the finest drag king cabaret delivered by an entirely poc cast, hosted by Zayn Phallic. NB: alcohol may be served at this venue

https://t.co/2Da3L8Fb7T

#SN4QT #kingsofcolour #sober #queer

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

18th July 9pm: INCITE @phoenixartsclub LGBTQ Poetry Night with @lgbtpoetlaureat Trudy Howson. "COMMEMORATION, CELEBRATION & CABARET” part of the Aids History & Culture Festival. Free Entry.
NB: Alcohol may be served at this venue

https://t.co/Z1bHayfn28

#SN4QT #queerpoetry

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

16th July 7pm: Sketch Sesh @TheGloryLondon. Life-Drawing class led by fashion illustrator James Davison and cult oil painter Simon Gray!

https://t.co/dSXOOSRIH4

NB: Alcohol may be served at this venue.

#SN4QT #sober #queer

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

16th July 2pm-4pm: AIDS Histories and Cultures in the Archive at @LdnMetArchives. Part of the AIDS Histories and Cultures Festival, an exploration of important archive material relating to London’s response to the AIDS pandemic.

https://t.co/6y0cdndstw

#SN4QT #soberqueers

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

14th July: screening of documentary “Punched by a Homosexualist” following a group of LGBTQ activists fighting for equality in St Petersburg. Followed by a play “Gay RussExit” about gay Russian men find a new life in the West @TheGloryLondon

https://t.co/uRbMLQmVN3

#SN4QT

[London Friend @lgbtfriend]

The pen is mightier than the sword! Come and join our #LGBT+ Creative Writing Group Thursday, 12 July, 7-9pm. No appointments necessary.

[QUEERSEUM @queerseum]

EXHIBITION OPENS TODAY: ft 50 yrs of Andrew Lumsden’s drawings and photos from the 2003 London Gay Pride. The 1st pride after the abolition of Section 28, and 1st pride in which police officers were allowed to march🔻COME OUT 📢
Co-organised by @queertoursoflondon @Queerseum

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

We're looking forward to catching Gay Liberation Front's Andrew Lumsden exhibition at @PlatformSthwrk 11-14 July. Celebrating 50 years of his art & activism! Curated by @Dandelamotte for @QueerToursLDN w @queerseum INFO: https://t.co/zfRbJcAB0N

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

13th-15th July: River Stage Festival Weekend: The Glory. @TheGloryLondon presents a FREE drag-fuelled weekend with fabulous back-to-back shows, surprise guests and parties @NationalTheatre

https://t.co/KrzXW69l8i
NB: alcohol may be served at this venue.
#SN4QT #queer #drag

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

2nd May: Screening of 'Speed Sisters' at @TheCommonHaus. Queerspace FC film club is an open social space by, for, and centring the work of self-identified queer, lesbian, bi and trans women, trans men, non-binary and intersex people.
https://t.co/ifzqG86tn8

#SN4QT #sober #queer

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

28th April: 'Xenometrics' by Pedro Marum. Screenings, talks and installation about queer futurities, mechanisms of resistance and surveillance politics.
Part of 'Queer Futures' at @MimosaHouse https://t.co/f3ECy0iXVG

#SN4QT #sober #queer #LGBT #queerlondon

[Regent Street Cinema @RegentStCinema]

Tickets for WILD SIDE next Tuesday also offer free admission to director Sébastien Lifshitz's brilliant Under Cover exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery
Not one to miss out on
https://t.co/yKikEjvy0U

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

2nd May: 'RCA Arts & Humanities Talks: Travis Alabanza'. Talk @RCAartshuman with prominent emerging queer artistic voices @travisalabanza whose work surrounds their identity as a trans, black, gender non-conforming person.
https://t.co/gIOAMHzUTh

#SN4QT #soberLDN #queer #trans

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

28th April 4pm: 'New Queer Visions: The 36th Parallel' with @EastEndFilmFest. From Tunis to Tehran, Baghdad to Istanbul, one line connects these shorts exploring the borders that bisect reality and desire, identity and geopolitics.
https://t.co/D9JTk0T5wx

#SN4QT #LGBT #cinema

[Sober Nights for Queer Types @SNforQT]

25th April 7pm: Screening of 'Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta)' the story of Pedro, a shy young gay man who at night transforms himself into sexually provocative webcam performer ‘NeonBoy’ presented by @TheVITOProject at @CinemaMuseum
https://t.co/0qeiXb2eHe
#SN4QT #sober #queer #cinema