Queer To Tell: Philadelphia

Queer Stories told by Queer People in Queer Philly. This week's theme: There's No Place Like Home, Doors: 8PM, Show: 8:30PM.
About this Event

NEXT STOP ON THE QUEER TO TELL EXPANSION IS PHILADELPHIA!
Come join us for the first edition of at Strangelove's! The show feature 5 different LGBTQIA+ storytellers sharing different stories about what home means to them. The show will run about an hour and a half, with a 10 minute intermission.

This month's theme - "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"

Like Glinda the Good says at the end of The Wizard of Oz, "Click your heels together three times and say 'There's no place like home.'" Home can mean so many things - It can be a literal place: your childhood home, a home you built, an apartment you found and, over years of work, made into your own. It can be a bit more figurative: the arms of someone you love, the first time you got onstage and knew this is what you were meant to do, the coffee shop you found your community in. It can hold a great deal of happiness and joy, but can also hold pain and sadness. Whatever it may be, it is something we all seek to find and build into a place we can depend on, find comfort, and feel completely ourselves in. There truly is no place like it.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

Queer To Tell is a New York-based storytelling movement bringing together LGBTQIA+ identifying artists, activists, and storytellers to create intimate, celebratory, live shows that platform the “real-life tales” of Queer people. Since launching in June 2023 as a 3-show series for Pride Month in New York City, Queer To Tell has produced 35 shows across 4 cities (NYC, Austin, Louisville, Pittsburgh), featured 154 storytellers, as well as 13 Queer-owned businesses, and has welcomed over 1,300 audience members across all shows. Each show has a different theme that allows for 5-6 storytellers to share personal stories that often touch on the universal experiences we as a community share (coming out stories, the icons who inspired us, the clothes we chose to adorn ourselves with, etc.), the nuances of our different identities, and the experience of being human. It is our mission to create consistent, dependable cultural experiences where LGBTQIA+ folks and allied communities can come together and reinforce the sense of a strong, national community united by a common commitment to visibility and equity.

Agenda

🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Doors Open
🕑: 08:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Show Starts