LGBT+
Show Your Pride It’s July, which means the Steel City becomes the Rainbow City as Pride season arrives. This year is a big one as we mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. Kicking off proceedings LGBT Sheffield returns to the Peace Gardens with their annual Pinknic Event [Sat 13 Jul] with an afternoon of live music and fun for all the family. You can meet the team behind Pinknic and many of the other local LGBT organisations at Sheffield Equality Hub Network’s LGBT+ Hub [Wed 10 Jul] where you can find out more about what’s happening in the city and have your say on issues affecting LGBT+ communities. There’s another opportunity to have your say at Pride in Sheffield’s final open meeting [Tue 2 Jul] where you can find out the final plans for the day and ways to get involved. The main event returns on Saturday 27 July. Bring your flags and placards and join the march down Ecclesall Road to Endcliffe Park where the main festival takes place. Led by a new team (see interview in this issue) this year, in addition to the main stage and community tent, we have the new addition of the drag tent featuring our very own Half Montys and Funky Beavers. As always there will be an array of options for dancing the night away. Club Rush returns to Hatch celebrating the 59th birthday of iconic “poppers user” Crispin Blunt – featuring DJs Tony Neptune, Peggy Viennetta, TamTam and Psyllium Husk. Over at Café Totem local legends and previous Pinknic and IDAHoBiT performers InaVibe take to the stage. Elsehwere, Drag Queens in The Garden is back at the Malin Bridge Inn with a line-up including Electric Blue, Annabelle Lecter, Mama Trish and Fannie Coil. Mulberry Bar join the celebrations with performances from Kyla Porter as Almost P!nk [Fri 26 Jul] and drag sensation Terri Fox [Sun 28 Jul]. The latest Drag Race Alumni to visit the Steel City, fan favourite Manilla Luzon, is here to slay at Plug [Tue 9 Jul]. We have local drag talent in the form of Petals Petrovsky at The Dorothy Pax [Sun 14 Jul] with a special show commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the 20th Anniversary of the death of Dusty Springfield and the 75th 86 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
Birthday of Diana Ross. Expect a fun evening filled with piano, song, banter and a singalong finale! The infamous Tia Anna also continues her Dinosaurs or Drag nights every Thursday at the Three Cranes with karaoke all night. If that’s not enough drag for you (and there is no such thing as too much drag) Curzon Cinema have a special screening of the original Drag Race and one of cinema’s first major LGBT success stories, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [Sat 20 Jul]. In the Pride tradition of campaigning, SAYiT launch their new Call It Out campaign at the South Yorkshire LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Conference at the Diamond [Wed 17 Jul]. Featuring expert researchers, domestic abuse professionals and service users to look at why, despite experiencing domestic abuse at the same or higher rates, LGBT+ people are less likely to access mainstream support services. For workers wanting to know more they are also running a series of training sessions across Relive Priscilla Queen of the Desert and enjoy the disco stylings of Raw Silk (above)