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Contents:

• REVIEW: THE GAY TRA, YELLOW MUG THEATRE, EDFRGE 2022 ★★★☆☆
• SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
• EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE THEATRE REVIEWS: BROTHER'S KEEPER | CONCEPT FOR A FILM | THE GAY TRA | REDEEMHER - HOW I SCREWED UP MY PERFECT MORMON LIFE | ULTIMATUM | THE ULTIMATE PICKLE
• REVIEW: THE GAY TRA | YELLOW MUG THEATRE | EDBURGH FRGE
• GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS
• THE GAY TRA
• THE GAY AGENDA
• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• EDBURGH GAY BARS

REVIEW: THE GAY TRA, YELLOW MUG THEATRE, EDFRGE 2022 ★★★☆☆

Chased between TV studs and Parliament, hound by journalists and activists, everybody wants to know: will the gay agenda prevail? The Gay Tra tak a thoroughly good go at divg headfirst to the way that Trans liv are prented the media and the vastatg nsequenc. There are a few thgs holdg The Gay Tra back achievg s aims – though they should be viewed tanm wh how all-enpassg and amb this piece is.

It feels as though The Gay Tra needs a b more workshoppg to make the words and movements feel natural and relaxed, rather than uptight, and the actors need to let their guard down a ltle more to perform to the bt of their abily.

Remend Drk: The Gay Tra is an Appleti – outwardly queer, ready to liver a sour experience to the ignorant and unprepared, but maybe needs a ltle b of updatg. Catch The Gay Tra before leav the statn between Augt 17th and 28th at RSE – Wele East, at 20:10.

SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’

There’s been a lot of chat about womanhood recently so I cid to look at how my genr and inty have been somethg that has taken me until now to unrstand – and that I’m a gay woman. Even though I’ve been livg as a gay woman sce I was 17.

“Don’t be too gay your material, men don’t like that.

EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE THEATRE REVIEWS: BROTHER'S KEEPER | CONCEPT FOR A FILM | THE GAY TRA | REDEEMHER - HOW I SCREWED UP MY PERFECT MORMON LIFE | ULTIMATUM | THE ULTIMATE PICKLE

” Heaven forbid they get a woman who’s gay on stage – this will throw men! Matthew cuts William off after he tells him that he’s gay – seemgly unable to separate what should be a happy ocsn om the abe they both suffered. Sally StottThe Gay Tra ***RSE Theatre, until 28 AugtThe Yellow Mug theatre pany has taken one of the most sensive and heated ntemporary topics of discsn as s subject, and portrayed wh a wng blend of sensivy and bg satire.

L Baxter (Andrew Lake) is a young non-bary person who experienc a homophobic attack a public toilet, and is then wheeled out – lerally, while fastened to a trolley – on heated morng telly programme The Great Brish Morng.

REVIEW: THE GAY TRA | YELLOW MUG THEATRE | EDBURGH FRGE

The ernment’s Shadow Equali Mister tri to make a b of polil pal out of L, but while they’re creasgly treated like a performg monkey (a climactic plot pot) by the mass media, their own podst The Gay Agenr gets their msage and Stafford’s play is a topil piece, both humoro and nicely balanced. The Gay Tra looks to answer this qutn openg wh a lightful ulele acpanied ditn to the gtur juxtaposed wh satiril observatn queryg the te ditn of the pani to the e.

Usg Viral Stori – although I thk we n all agree 2020 was a pretty slow year, one thg people do remember is ‘The Gay Tra’ makg the news. It’s a warm, welg cy, filled wh some of the most breathtakg sights Stland, om the famo Royal Mile the betiful Old Town to the by shoppg district of Prc Street where Edburgh’s gay neighbourhood, The Pk Triangle, is loted. Edburgh’s gay tablishments are varied.

If you’re a fan of drag, you’ll fd plenty of opportuni to wns drag performanc, play bgo, and partake siar activi at many of the cy’s most popular gay tablishments. Whether you’re here for a month or jt a weekend, if you’re an LGBTQ traveller visg Edburgh, read on to disver the bt ways to explore the cy’s vibrant gay scene.

GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS

To be gay Edburgh: Is LGBTQ iendly? Edburgh is a very gay-iendly cy.

The gay area Edburgh: The Pk Triangle. You’ll fd gay bars, pubs, and clubs mostly ncentrated on Broughton Street and towards the top of Leh Walk. Edburgh’s bt gay bars and clubs have relaxed atmospher, welg staff, and iendly patrons.

Open om 1:00 pm to 1:00 am, Habana Edburgh is the perfect venue to beg your night out around Edburgh’s gay scene. CC Blooms, named after the lead of the 1988 film Beach (played by Bette Midler), is one of the biggt gay clubs Edburgh.

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This sy bar is one of Edburgh’s longt-nng gay bars, known for s iendly atmosphere and reasonably priced drks (and also sponsors the Hot Sts, Stland’s first-ever LGBTQ football team). Paradise Palms isn’t exactly a gay bar, but attracts a lot of LGBTQ patrons wh s funky r, creative dg optns, and drag baret.

Victoria Bar is on Leh Walk, a 15-mute walk om the ma gay neighbourhood Edburgh. This is another tablishment that isn’t specifilly a gay venue but is very gay-iendly and popular wh LGBTQ lols.

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It hosts a gay, dis-themed party (lled Hey QT) once a month. It has s roots march, celebratns, and monstratns of the late 1980s and 1990s, cludg the Lark the Park events that began as a prott agast Sectn 28, a seri of laws across Bra that prohibed promotns of homosexualy.

GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

Gay hotels Edburgh. Gay-owned, gay-iendly or gay-popular, you’ll be given the most exquise service all the tablishments.

Holiday Inn Exprs Edburgh is one of the clost hotels to the cy’s gay bars. While ’s not specifilly a gay hotel, the lotn is nvenient for those headg to the Pk Triangle, and you’ll likely n to other LGBTQ travellers here and strike up a nversatn.

Tigerlily isn’t jt a hotel popular among LGBTQ travellers – s downstairs bar and rtrant is also a known hotspot for LGBTQ lols (even though ’s not technilly a gay bar). Garlands Gut Hoe is a gay-owned B&B Leh, Edburgh. activists, everybody wants to know: will the gay agenda prevail?

EDBURGH GAY BARS

Tickets on sale now: LAKE - LRAY STAFFORD - Patrick, Ted, Bob, NurseEMMA WILKES - Dawn, Ellen, ReceptnistAddnal voic by Emma CooperWrten and produced by Andrew Lake and Ray StaffordWrten by two LGBTQ actors, The Gay Tra is an irreverent satire of the UK’s current TV landspe. Whilst the show’s targets clu the obv - socially nservative platforms such as GB News and Good Morng Bra, where talkg about LGBT rights is creasgly dismissed as “Wokeism, ” “Virtue Signallg, ” or even “Dangero” - the show also tak aim at the progrsive si of the bate, om the ‘rabow palism’ of Avanti’s LGBT-staffed pri tra, to the journalists who set themselv up as spokpeople for the whole LGBT the succs of their 2019 show Sectn 28, and the panmic-themed webseri We Live Insi, LGBT pany Yellow Mug Theatre return to the stage wh a brand-new black edy, The Gay Tra, set to premiere at Edburgh Frge this summer.

(wner of L Enfants Terribl Award 2022) is a tragic odyssey to gay club culture and the plac we n ll home. This highly relevant productn tak a nuanced look at the polics wh gay muni explorg how victims of vlence n also be perpetrators of vlence. BookgThe Gay TraYellow Mug Theatre prents a darkly ic play that’s a vic love letter to the middle-class horror that is weekday morng TV, centred on non-bary stunt L.