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

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

Following our first two sold out Glasgow shows in June 2024 and February 2025, the audience told us we must keep coming to Glasgow. So … here we are again - more fruity, hilarious and moving LGBTQ+ stories in a show featuring queer stand-ups, writers, 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 throughout 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 8th April by local queer Glasgow and Scotland-based talent, featuring acclaimed novelist and writer Kirsty Logan, film and theatre writer/performer Sarah Grant, plus Glasgow singer-songwriter Finn Brodie.

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 shows around Europe. His latest one man show, Straight Talking, has toured internationally since May 2024 and is about to return to Vienna’s grand Volkstheater in April 2025. He won the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award 2024 for Queer Folks’ Tales.

Kirsty Logan is a prolific writer with many novels and short story collections to her name. Her latest books are the novel "Now She is Witch" and "The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir". Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards, and have been, and are being, adapted for stage, film, radio and podcasts. She lives in Glasgow with her wife Annie, their 2 year-old child, and their rescue dog.

Sarah Grant is a queer, working-class writer, director, spoken word artist and theatre-maker based in Glasgow. She has BAFTA & Oscar qualifying short films under her belt, which played at international festivals, plus comedy shorts for BBC. With writing partner, Katrina Allen, she won an RTS Scotland Award for Best Short Form. She wrote Fat Girl Best Friend, out of commitment to stories that are fearless body positive, sex positive, inclusive female-led.

Finn Brodie is a Glasgow based indie-folk musician who has been writing songs and playing gigs since he was 15. Now in his 20s, and having come out as trans, Brodie’s songs are packed with emotion and vulnerability. Written in his bedroom and produced by his long-time collaborator Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit, Brodie’s new work consists of intimate, bittersweet studies of identity, relationships and growing up.

Queer Folks’ Tales receives assistance from Creative Scotland.