Queer Folks' Tales Scotland’s multiple 5 star rated, hit LGBTQ+ storytelling show, now in its 3rd year, returns to Glasgow by popular demand!

✶✶✶✶✶ “Utterly fabulous” (The Q Review) ✶✶✶✶✶ “Edinburgh’s most vibrant, authentic and exciting storytelling event” (The Wee Review)

Following our first sold out Glasgow show in June 2024, the audience told us we must keep coming to Glasgow. So … here we are - more fruity, hilarious and moving LGBTQ+ stories in a show featuring stand-ups, poets, singers and more.

Now in our 3rd year of sell out shows in Edinburgh, our very queer, funny and moving LGBTQ+ storytelling show Queer Folks’ Tales is on tour around Scotland again in 2025, 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 Tuesday February 5th by local queer Glasgow and Scotland-based talent, featuring acclaimed poet Janette Ayachi , local drag legend Bella Houston and plus Glasgow singer-songwriter Raveloe.

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.

Bella Houston is drag royalty, a faded showgirl and former Avon lady who entertained Glasgow's LGBTQ+ scene for the past two decades including film and media appearances. Her one woman shows regularly sell out despite her hearing Glaswegians say 'Who does she thinks she is', 'making a show of herself' and 'I thought she was dead'.

Janette Ayachi is a Scottish-Algerian poet. Her poetry, prose and essays have been published internationally and translated into several languages. She's a regular on BBC Scotland arts programmes and has published work in nearly one hundred anthologies and poetry journals.  Her debut poetry book Hand Over Mouth Music (Pavilion) won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Literary Award 2019 with many more published since then. Raveloe is the project of Glasgow singer-songwriter Kim Grant. She is inspired by nature, magical-realism, the spectrum of human experience and emotions and artists like The Microphones, Big Thief, Jason Molina. Her debut EP Notes and Dreams (Feb. 2021) and her debut album Exit Light (Nov. 2023) are on Olive Grove Records. Her performance name comes from the pages of George Eliot's Silas Marner, about a reclusive weaver.

With assistance from Creative Scotland.