SPRINGING FORWARD April is here, spring has sprung and beer garden weather is officially upon us! To add to the general joy of the season as we emerge from the winter months, we have another month packed full of queer happenings. First up, we have the return of Andro and Eve’s The Kingdom Come (Sat 13 Apr) for their Salty Seas edition, a night of nautical nonsense at Crookes Social Club hosted by Beau Jangles featuring some of the UK’s most exciting drag acts including CYRO, Oedipussi and Sigi Moonlight. There’s more drag over at Malin Bridge Inn with residents DJ Brooke’s Sassy Saturdays (Sat 13 Apr) and Tanya Minge’s Drag Bingo (Fri 19 Apr). Think you’ve got what it takes to sashay across their stage? Then you have
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two more opportunities this month, as Electric Blue hosts the latest rounds of the Drag Idol Heats (Fri 12&27 Apr), where you could become or cheer on Sheffield’s next drag icons. And there’s another opportunity to take to the stage whatever your talent, at Mandala’s LGBTQIA+ Talent Night (Sun 7 Apr), where singers, poets, musicians, burlesque artists, comedians from our fantastic LGBTQIA+ community are all welcome for a spectacular night of guaranteed fun, frolics and debauchery, presided over by your very own hostess with the mostess: the fabulous, the incomparable, Miss Bipolar Abdul! Continuing the comeget-involved vibe this month, we have Key of She (Thu 4
Apr) – Theatre Deli’s improvised jam session for women and marginalised genders. Sign up on the night if you’d like to be part of a jam, or simply come and watch. For more live music, head to Shakespeares for Earwig presents Pink Suits w/ Speed Dating + Junk It (Thu 4 Apr). Pink Suits are a Queer Feminist Punk Rock & Rage duo, making loud, aggressive, political punk noise as well as dance, theatre, film and art as an exploration of sexuality, fantasy, mental health, politics, activism and as a resistance of binary gender, questioning how voices and bodies can be used as a form of protest. Taking to the stage at City Hall we have Tom Allen (Sat 20 Apr). The comic has finally moved out
of his parents’ house, which has been great news for him, better news for department stores and even better news for his latest stand-up tour as he’s eager to share his life updates, get your opinions on his vegetable patch and delve into the protocol of inviting friends with children for dinner. In community happenings, Trans Active Swimming (every Saturday) will be taking place at Heeley Pool open to any trans, non-binary and genderquestioning people of all fitness levels. Diversity Fest will be back at Showroom Cinema Bar for the Diversity Fest 2024 Planning Meeting & AGM, where you can meet the team, find out more and get involved in the planning for this year’s festival. There are a