Queer Diary // Hasbian

Reclaiming our teenage memories this spring 💘 📖 Queer Diary: Would you read yours? Open mic diary-reading nights. Sign up to share YOUR real teenage diary, old poetry, or fanfic 👀 ✂️ QD Zine-making workshops Make your own mini-zine, with a stack of old teen magazines. All materials provided 🖍 🌈 Hasbian shows “A unique insight into growing up queer in the 90s” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A Young(ish) Perspective “An incredibly funny, charismatic performer” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- West End With Me 💸 Most of our events are PWYC with free options. If you don’t see an affordable choice, get in touch & we’ll sort something out! ♿️ Regular QD events are in venues with step-free access, with details on each booking page. 👉 Hasbian has integrated Audio Description & Creative Captioning. QD events with BSL listed below. ❓️ If you don’t see the access info you need, get in touch & we’ll find it for you. 🙏 Thanks to Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund & the National Lottery Community Fund for supporting Queer Diary. Sat 21 Mar QD Zines BEDFORD with @RainbowBedfordshire @higginsbedford Fri 27 Mar Hasbian LEEDS @carriageworkstheatre Tue 31 Mar (+28 Apr, 26 May) QD Zines GREENWICH, LDN BSL Interpreted at @queercircle Thu 2 Apr (+ 7 May) Zines SOUTHWARK, LDN @ldnslgbtqcentre Thu 9 Apr Queer Diary readings BEDFORD BSL Interpreted With @RainbowBedfordshire @GreenEarthCafeUK Sat 11 Apr QD Zines KINGS CROSS, LDN With @sassifyzines Zinespiration Club Thu 23 Apr Hasbian + Queer Diary (post-show) COLCHESTER, ESSEX @MercuryTheatreColchester Wed 13 May Hasbian + Queer Diary (post-show) SALE, GREATER MANCHESTER @WatersideArts_ Pride In Trafford Sat 16 May QD Zines @watersidearts_ SALE, MCR Pride In Trafford Description: Handwriting & typewriter text on torn paper & post-its in purple, blue, pink & yellow, with the info above, plus: illustrations of scissors, microphone, glue, a parental advisory sticker, 6 smiley people reading from notebooks into a mic, old magazines including Green Day on NME, George Michael on Smash Hits, Beyonce on Mizz, Skin on Kerrang. Logos for funders & Queer Diary’s logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book)

Sign-ups are OPEN for Queer Diary - the night where LGBTQIA+ adults share writing from our coming-of-age era. We're reclaiming our youth, in the name of solidarity, silliness & celebrating how far we we've come 🌈📖 You're invited to share your journal extracts, angsty poetry, thirsty fanfic, terrible tumblr posts - yes YOU 🫢 All adolescent scribblings welcome - no performing experience necessary! Coming up: BEDFORD - Apr 9 @ Green Earth Cafe (with @rainbowbedfordshire ) COLCHESTER - Apr 23 @mercurytheatrecolchester MANCHESTER - May 13 @watersidearts (with @prideintrafford ) FAQ 💘 HOW to sign up? Simply get in touch via our short form & Beth will email you to say hi 🔗↖️ 💘 WHO can share? ALL LGBTQIA+ adults. Yes, you are LGBTQIA+ enough. 💘 WHAT to share? *Queer* = the ppl are LGBTQIA+, readings do NOT need to be "queer themed" *Teenage* = from your coming-of-age era. Could be your childhood or younger adulthood, as long as its the past! *Diaries* = whatever u wrote! Doesn't need to be journal entries: Could be old poetry, fanfic, stories, letters, myspace posts, MSN messages. 💘 WHY? Its fun, its cathartic, its a community bonding experience. Plus, who can refuse a dare? 👀 QD is a friendly crowd & many readers return to share more after their "first time". Readers say: “A joy to be part of” "So affirming" “I got a huge boost from everyone cheering me” “You realise we were all as weird as each other” 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Queer Diary is supported by the National Lottery Community Fund Description: An animation featuring photos of people & words popping up on graph-paper, featuring different photos of readers holding notebooks - laughing, cringing whilst reading into a mic. Words match the voiceover, with typewriter-style blue & purple text with cartoony fonts highlighting key words (Broadway-esque font for ‘on stage’, curly handwriting for ‘angsty poetry’, drippy letters for ‘thirsty fanfiction’). Diary-ish stickers decorate the pages (including the QD logo - a rainbow bursting from a pink open book, a glittery beating heart with an arrow through it, sparkling stars, and a road-sign at the end that reads “get in touch”) #queerdiary

Did doing the Macarena in your school hall not quite meet the prom-expectations set by high school teen movies? *record scratch* Let’s go back to the Year 8 disco, but this time - make it QUEER. Get ready for an evening of Queer Diary readings at @daltonsbrighton followed by School Disco Afterparty (til midnight) A chance to re-do your end-of-term dance (minus the cringe factor of actual adolescence). WEAR what you want: Glitter hairspray or wet look gel? ✨ Baggy combats or pleather mini-skirts? 👖 🚫 No parents/teachers/bullies can police your self-expression this time round! 💥 DANCE how you want: A slow-dance to Celine Dion? A half-remembered Steps routine? A daredevil knee-slide across the dancefloor? 🕺💃🪩 With WHOEVER you want (consensually): Bring your mates, your date, or come by yourself to make new pals 🥰 Expect throwback tracks of all genres - from grunge to garage, from emo to S Club. Chat to the School Disco DJ to dedicate a song to your current crush or a long-lost puppy love 💘 Doors: 7pm, readings from ~7:30-9:30pm After-party til midnight Full info + 🎟 on @outsavvy with PWYC options, thanks to support from by the National Lottery Community Fund 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Image description: A purple discoball overlaid with photos of a dozen people laughing, smiling, cringing, some reading into a mic from notebooks and phones, others showing off their old diary or sketchbook to the audience. Handwriting and typewriter style text in pink, purple & blue hues says: Queer Diary + School Disco, with the date, venue, funder logos at the bottom on a strip of torn paper. Next to the heading our sticker: a rainbow bursting from an open book.

BIG NEWS! Huge expensive news! I'm going to Fringe, hosting Queer Diary l8 nites. If you wanna join in by bringing something from your coming-of-age era to read, you know where to look for the 🔗 ALSO if u got any work for me in June/July, lmk 🤪 Description: Me talking to camera in the beige surrounds of a travelodge. I'm a round-faced white millennial with dark wavy hair, wearing a white tshirt. My face moves around quite expressively, my eyebrows raise & my eyes get really wide when I say "AGH!" While some drippy red lettering illustrates that exclamation. My eyes are a little pink from tiredness, thanks to said travelodge. When I say "midnight", some text also clarifies its actually 23:45.

The skies may be grey but we're beaming a rainbow over Greater Manchester for day 2 of Pride in Trafford 2026. 🌈 We've got a SOLD OUT adult dance class from Night People at 18.30 (and a waiting list - sign up cos you never know!) Clueless meets Hearstopper at Queer, coming of age comedy Hasbian at 19.30 and it's a double bill with Queer Diary open mic at 20.15, where artists and audience members share their cringetastic teenage musings. We still have a few tickets left for Hasbian and Queer Diaries - head to the website to buy, link in bio @hasbianshow @nightpeopleevents

Hasbian is in Manchester THIS WEDS 7pm @watersidearts_ @pridetrafford Followed by #QueerDiary: the night where queer folks read their REAL teenage diaries live on stage 🌈📖 I'm always delighted when folks find something they can relate to in this show that features so much of my own real diary from the early 00s. I know some of my experiences are wildly atypical (if there is such a thing as a "typical" adolescence!) and there are manyyy references that makes Hasbian particularly connect with UK Millennials, but I LOVE it when it speaks to anyone who's older, younger, or grew up elsewhere. And I can NEVER get enough of hearing people share their own teenage scribblings at Queer Diary - what a dream to be able to do both shows back-to-back this week 🥰🥰 Still some 🎟 left for both shows tomorrow - Hasbian from £12, QD is FREE - if cost is a barrier, never hesitate to get in touch & I'll sort something out for you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Description: Different generations react to Hasbian, a compilation video of folks of a variety of ages & styles in theatre foyers & bars, talking to camera, giving their responses to the show, against as many plain walls as I could find in my haste to capture their enthusiasm. Including: a person in a Nirvana shirt, lots of queer tattoos and noserings, someone with a lesbian flag badge, someone with a lavender bandana on, someone with a rainbow stripe across their sweater.

Queer Diary + School Disco Afterparty We can't promise to reunite you with your first crush, but we aim to reignite that rush of adrenaline you got when they first noticed you. Expect: earnest journal entries, long-lost love-letters, fabulous fan-fiction, terrible tumblr posts & possibly some cringey poetry 👀 PLUS: School Disco Afterparty ✨ Re-do your end-of-term disco, minus the adolescent awkwardness! Dance the night away to all the throwback tracks from YOUR coming-of-age era 🎶 Girlbands or Grunge? Emo or S Club? The DJ will take requests 💿 Think: we’re in Year 8 again, but everyone’s queer & allowed to stay out til midnight 💋 Wear what you want* ❤️‍🔥 Dance with who you want 💞 🚫 No bullies allowed! @ Daltons, Brighton Thu 25 June 7pm - Midnight PWYC tix on Outsavvy *flame shirts, wet-look hair gel, glitter bodyspray, all STRONGLY enouraged ✨ "The rip-roaring playlist continues as chairs are cleared away so the dancing can begin… as awkward and beautifully careless as it might have been at school. It’s the queer school disco young people deserve but don’t always get…. A space to look back on our formative years with kindness and laughter." - ★★★★★ The Reviews Hub Queer Diary is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund. Video description: A spinning multicoloured disco ball animation. Over it appears typed purple text in the style of a 90s word processor, says: what if you could re-do your end-of-term disco without the teenage awkwardness in a room full of friendly queer folks? Then the words Queer Diary in pink handwriting writing slide in with a bunch of photos of folks smiling & cringing while reading their diaries, alongside our logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book). More text gives the information for the night, the same as in this post.

Back in MANCHESTER this Wednesday! 7pm HASBIAN 💘 A coming-of-age comedy based on my REAL teenage diaries: "A unique insight into growing up queer in the 90s" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A Young(ish) Perspective 8:15pm QUEER DIARY 🌈📖 LGBTQIA+ folks read their own teenage diaries, angsty poetry, thirsty fanfic - whatever you kept from your coming-of-age era 👀 At @pridetrafford @watersidearts_ QD is FREE. Hasbian from £12. As always, get in touch if cost is a barrier, I'll sort something out for you. See u there 💋 Description: A horizontally split collage, the top half showing Hasbian, bottom showing Queer Diary. Hasbian is me against a pink backdrop, in pink dungarees, opening my diary (a pink book) and looking mock surprised. I'm a white person with a dark ponytail. Surrounding me: hearts with 00s teen idols Lindsay Lohan & Ashton Kutcher inside, a bottle with red vodka label, a brighton bus, a pair of red Doc marten boots, a parental advisory sticker, and the press quote featured above. Queer Diary features 6 different people reading from their diaries and notebooks into a mic, surrounding handwritten words saying "open mic: sign up to read your teenage diary, old poetry, or fanfic". Blue hearts & a lipstick kiss decorate the page. Text: Queer Diary, would you read yours? Live teenage diary readings from (grown-up) queers. Plus: throwback soundtrack, cringey poetry, thirsty fanfic. Plus the date & venue.

How did i make a movies-referenced-in-Hasbian post & miss this one off??? Thats what i get for posting on the fly en-route to work - hope the fact that I'm wearing this shirt rectifies things with Manon 🌙🐍🌳🪶🔥🌊 Description: me walking down the street frowning into the camera at a comment that says "What about the craft?" then zooming out to reveal my black shirt says "We Are The Weirdos Mister" with moons and a pentagram, referencing the film, and I shrug.

If you've seen all these you'll understand me (& my show) on a *deeper level* If you haven't seen them yet, knock urself out! You have soooo many treats in store 💋 Though, a caution: there are some extremely problematic aspects to most of these, esp when seen through a modern lens. Their impact on us as young'uns wasn't always entiiiirely wholesome 😬 Next chance to see Hasbian is @pridetrafford @watersidearts_ this Weds MANCHESTER 🌈s come on down 💘 Image descriptions: 1. Christian Bale pointed excitedly at the telly in a drab living room (Velvet Goldmine) 2. Clea Duvall & Natasha Lyonne smiling at each other in matching pink shirts (But I'm A Cheerleader) 3. The 3 leads from Clueless sat at a pink wedding table - Cher & Dionne in pink looking happy, Tai in blue looking uncomfortable. 4. Sarah Michelle Gellar gets an eyes-closed shoulder rub whilst draped over Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions) 5. Angelina Jolie & Winona Ryder sat on the floor in a corridor, crop-haired Winona plays guitar while blonde Angelina sings along (Girl, Interrupted) 6. Gabrielle Union & Larisa Oleynik chatting walking through school, while Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks wistfully at them from behind (10 Things I Hate About You) 7. Colombia in a gold tophat, Magenta in maids hat & Riff Raff surround Tim Curry in heels, corset & fishnets as Frank N Furter lounging on his silver throne (Rocky Horror Picture Show) 8. The lead couple in Strictly Ballroom competing in a dance competition, in glitzed-up flamenco-wear, he kneels as she strikes a statuesque pose 9. Matilda & Lavender pull confused/surprised expression, in the 90s adaptation of Matilda 10. Rizzo smiles, pleased with herself & eating an ice cream in Grease 11. Plaid-clad Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls, sat on the grass alongside Damien & Janis, with Janis smiling & the other 2 side-eyeing (presumably at the Plastics) 12. Judy Garland's Dorothy & the Scarecrow either side of the tinman as she oils his mouth in The Wizard of Oz

Thanks to everyone who egged me on!!! Pls know it is you to whom I will come crying if no one wants to do the macarena with us when the day comes, but no presh Just a few final bits left to slot into place Gotta go vote first - DONT FORGET TO VOTE ✅️ ✨️ Description: Closeup of my screen showing glimpses of a work-in-progress poster design featuring our pink Queer Diary title & rainbow bursting from an open book, plus a purple disco ball & photos of people reading from notebooks into microphones & smiling. Text overlaid says: consider yourself teased.

New review just in! Next stop: MANCHESTER on Wednesday for a Hasbian show, followed by a Queer Diary reading night at @pridetrafford @watersidearts_ 💘🌈📖 "This show was brilliant" "Amazingly accessible and relatable" "Part nostalgia and part protest" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 - GJD Reviews Thanks for the write-up @gjdreviews 😊 See u on Weds 13th, Manc pals 💋 📸 by Joseph Lynn Description: Me performing in Hasbian. I'm a round-faced white millennial with dark wavy hair past my shoulders, under pink light wearing denim dungarees & a white shirt, pointing my 2 fingers in front of my body and grinning, as though doing a dance. The pic is on a diagonal with a pink background and the review quotes from this post in white text above my picture.