Queer Folks' Tales

Scotland’s multiple 5 star rated, hit LGBTQ+ storytelling show, now in its 4th year, returns to Glasgow yet again, by popular demand!

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

Following our first three sold out Glasgow shows in 2024 & 2025, the audience told us we must keep coming back to Glasgow. So … here we are again – with more fruity, hilarious and moving LGBTQ+ stories, in a show featuring stand-ups, poets, singers and more. Queer Folks’ Tales is a finalist in the Proud Scotland Awards 2025 (Creative Arts Award) - ceremony on May 31st.

Our very queer, funny and moving LGBTQ+ storytelling show Queer Folks’ Tales now tours around Scotland every 8 weeks 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 10th June by local queer Glasgow and Scotland-based talent, featuring acclaimed local stand-ups, Scott Agnew, fresh from his Radio 4 series, and the highly original Theo Seddon, plus vibrant singer-songwriter, poet, spoken word artist Bee Asha.

Turan Ali has been a producer, director and writer of BBC radio dramas and comedies for over 20 years. He’s been a stage storyteller since 2012, and a stand up since 2021. He has two sell out monthly storytelling shows in Vienna and tours internationally as a stand up and with his latest solo show Straight Talking. He’s the creator, producer and host of Queer Folks’ Tales for which he won the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award 2024.

Bee Asha is an Edinburgh spoken word artist, working between rap and poetry with Indian/Scottish heritage. She was in Scottish female rap trio The Honey Farm & co-founded the award-winning charity The Spit it Out Project. Her first EP From Girl to Men won SAMA’s best newcomer (2022), and was shortlisted for BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year 2024. Her album Goodbye, Gracious was longlisted for Scottish Album of the year 2024.

Scott Agnew is an award winning and critically acclaimed stand-up comedian from Glasgow. Over the years his fringe shows have tackled issues facing modern gay men including mental health, HIV, addictions, homophobia, stigma sauna culture and chemsex. Having survived a heart attack and three cardiac arrests in recent years, life is finds him in more reflective mood, as heard in his recent BBC Radio 4 comedy series. Theo Seddon is a comedian, actor and writer working in theatre making silly shows about not very silly topics. He uses comedy to deconstruct masculinity, gender and heteronormativity, informed by his experiences as a transgender man. He was a Discover Artist at The National Theatre of Scotland, and Sanctuary Queer Arts 'Newer Artist' in 2021. His current writing responds to the negative landscape for transgender people in 2025. 

With assistance from Creative Scotland.