Queer diary (Bedford)

Queer Diary is the night where queers share REAL teenage diaries, plus long-lost love-letters, fabulous fan-fiction, terrible tumblr posts, and the odd bit of cringey poetry 🌈📖 We can't promise to reunite you with your first crush, but we do aim to reignite that rush of adrenaline you got when they first noticed you!

This event is pay what you can and is a 18+ due to adult theams

🌈Can I just join the audience? YES! Queer Diary needs an audience! You do NOT need to share anything to attend. Come cheer folks reading on the mic, and enjoy the throwback playlist between readings.

Up for sharing something from your youth?

Our mic is open. Get in touch here 👈

👉Queer Diary FAQs:

• 🌈WHO can take part? Any LGBTQIA+ adults are welcome to share something from your youth on the mic. You don’t have to be a performer - many readers have never done anything like this before.
• 🌈WHAT can I share? ➡ QUEER? = LGBTQIA+ people on stage. Your material doesn’t have to be ‘queer themed’ - lots of us didn’t know we were back then. We’ve had people read about favourite TV shows, a school trip, even a ghost story! ➡ TEENAGE? = Anything from your coming-of-age era (usually teens, but can be younger/older - whatever “coming-of-age” means to you!) ➡ ️DIARIES? Yes, but not only diaries! We also welcome poetry, fanfiction or short stories, homework, old online posts, letters, messages - whatever you wrote back then 👀
• 🌈WHY would I do it? It’s fun! Queer Diary is a friendly, supportive, joyful bonding experience. QD host Beth created this event for LGBTQIA+ people to share our memories in a community space.
• 🌈HOW does it work? Sign up using our short form, or email the @hasbianshow team: [email protected] Beth will get in touch to chat about the night, and reserve you a spot on the mic.

Feedback from past shows;

"A space to look back on our formative years with laughter and kindness… Often funny, sometimes moving and heart-warming, always entertaining" - Reviews Hub

"If a Queer Diary event was scheduled on the Moon, the most anti-capitalist queers would be befriending Bezos in hopes of securing a rocket ride." - DIVA Magazine

Audiences say: “I felt like if I met everyone in school, we’d all be friends” “A joy to be a part of” “You’ll realise you weren’t as weird as you thought!” “So affirming”

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Host or Publisher Rainbow Bedfordshire NHS ELFT