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Adventure Cinema Wed 21 Aug: Bohemian Rhapsody
Outdoor Cinema Experience
Thu 22 Aug: The Greatest Showman
Outdoor Cinema Sing-A-Long Owlerton Stadium
adventurecinema.co.uk
Trans Active Sat 10 & 24 Aug: Trans Active Swimming
Heeley Pool & Gym Sun 18 Aug: Trans Active Archery Rother Valley Country Park trans-active.co.uk
Summer in the City! School’s out for summer! The students of Sheffield have left, and those of us remaining are still in Pride recovery mode. This is traditionally the column where I try to stretch out the two events that are happening in the month into a full page . . . until now! There’s no summertime sadness this year, you can keep your rainbow flags flying as the city is awash with queer events all summer long. Drag fans start your engines as the latest of RuPaul’s stars come to town. First up, we have All Stars 4 joint-winner and pageant queen Trinity the Tuck at Plug (Fri 2 Aug), hosted by RuJazzle with support from Frans Gender and Ellie Ganza. Over at Leadmill on The Pretty Weird Tour (Thu 8 Aug) we have two of the best queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11, Plastique Tiara & Yvie Oddly. Get ready to get weird! At the Library Theatre the award-winning Velvet Burlesque proudly presents the fourth Sheffield Burlesque & Cabaret Extravaganza (Sat 24 Aug) – a spectacular festival of dazzling burlesque, vaudeville, cabaret, drag, circus, magic and variety acts, featuring multiple award-winning local, national and international guest performers. Get ready for a night of unique variety and glamour including London’s holy one and only singing comedic drag queen Virgin Xtravaganzah. Keeping it local, our homegrown queens The Funky Beaver Show are celebrating their fifth birthday with their latest instalment, Beaver Forever!, at The Montgomery (Fri 16 Aug). Come and celebrate this huge milestone for drag cabaret in Sheffield and dance and laugh the night away with Vivian Twist, Miss Cleo and Diana D as they hit the stage for a night of camp antics, hilarious comedy and jaw dropping dance routines. There will be more celebrations at City of Santuary as LASS (Lesbian Asylum Support Sheffield) celebrate their second birthday (Thu 8 Aug) open to all LBTQ+ women and non-binary folk who are seeking asylum or are refugees. In the tradition of every family and friendship group where all the birthdays seem to coincide, this year we also have the 20th anniversary of SAYiT –
Sheffield’s LGBT+ youth charity who are hosting a number of events throughout the year marking the past two decades of their work. If you want to support what they do and have some fun in the process, why not join their fancy dress walk (Sat 10 Aug) raising funds for a residential providing a safe space for LGBT+ young people. There are more chances to keep active with Trans Active, who in addition to their regular swimming sessions at Heeley Pool (Sat 10 & 24], are also running an archery session at Rother Valley Country Park (Sun 18 Aug). All activities are open to any trans/non-binary/gender-questioning people of all fitness levels. If Pride inspired you to get involved behind the scenes and join the ranks of Sheffield’s festival organisers then head to the Pride in Sheffield open meeting at Hallam University (Wed 7 Aug) to find out about the upcoming elections for next year’s committee. Or join the DiversityFest crew at Hagglers Corner (Sun 18 Sep) for the penultimate chance to get involved in the running of this year’s DivertyFest in September. Making the most of the summer nights, Adventure Cinema comes to Owlerton Stadium for two outdoor cinema experiences. First up, we will, we will, rock you with a screening of Bohemian Rhapsody (Wed 21 Aug) followed by The Greatest Showman (Thu 22 Aug). For more musical joy at Hatch, queer dreamboats Cat Apostrophe take to the stage (Wed 28 Aug) celebrating the release of their debut album, Lifelong Amateurism. Also joining the party are Jeff with their songs about rabbit companions and queer adolescence, righteous early-Eno influenced kosmiche-kult kidz Sister Wives and absolute babes Precious Metals. That’s your lot for this month, and until next time, love and glitter…
Other Events Fri 2 Aug: Trinity the Tuck
Plug
the-plug.com Wed 7 Aug: Pride in Sheffield Open
Meeting Sheffield Hallam University
prideinsheffield.net
Thu 8 Aug: The Pretty Weird Tour ft: Plastique Tiara & Yvie Oddly Leadmill leadmill.co.uk
Thu 8 Aug: LASS’s 2nd Birthday City of Sanctuary lassheffield.org.uk
Sat 10 Aug: SAYiT’s Fancy Dress Walk Five Weirs Walk sayit.org.uk
Fri 16 Aug: Beaver Forever ! - Celebrating
5 years of the Funky Beaver Show The Montgomery
funkybeavershow.co.uk
Sun 18 Aug: Diversity Fest Planning
Meeting Hagglers Corner
diversityfest.wordpress.com Sat 24 Aug: Sheffield Burlesque & Cabaret Extravaganza Library Theatre velvetburlesque.co.uk
Wed 28 Aug: Cat Apostrophe / Jeff
Hatch
hatchsheffield.com
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