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Queer Diary / Hasbian
@queerdiary.bsky.social
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Queer folks read their REAL teenage diaries live on stage 🌈📖

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This week we're in Newcastle!

✂️ Zine-making on Weds
💘 Hasbian performance on Thu

Both at alphabetti theatre with PWYC tix available

See u there 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A split page, advertising 2 Queer Diary events at alphabetti theatre. On top: zine-making 22nd oct make your own mini-zine from real old teen magazines (with a doodle of scissors and the covers of kerrang featuring Skin, mizz featuring Beyoncé, smash hits featuring George Michael and nme featuring green day. Below, hasbian show "a unique insight into growing up queer in the 90s" (5 stars, a young-ish perspective), featuring a picture of Beth opening a blue book and looking mock-shocked at the contents. Stickers surrounding beth show doc marten boots, cheap vodka, a brighton bus, lindsay lohan and Ashton Kutcher in hearts, and pop duo tatu looking on.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Oct 1 QD, Newcastle
Bring ur old diary, poetry, fanfic, tumblr post- whatever you wrote when as a teen 🌈📖

Oct 3 Hasbian, Durham
Queer coming-of-age comedy with REAL teenage diaries & a soundtrack of y2k pop classics & indie angst anthems 💘

Oct 22-23, Newcastle zine-making & a Hasbian show

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Queer Diary event dates in the North East, listed in a typewriter font: Weds Oct 1 Queer Diary open mic diary-reading night Alphabetti Newcastle, Fri Oct 3 Hasbian performance Durham, Weds 22 Zine-making workshop at Alphabetti, Thu 23 Hasbian at Alphabetti. Around the dates, doodles of scissors, glue, a diary and a microphone. At the top the title Queer Diary in pink handwriting with a heart over the i. At the bottom, the qd logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book) and the quote "a place to look back on our formative years with laughter and kindness"
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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This week we're in OXFORD 📍

Zine-making on Sept 7th, Queer Diary readings on the 11th at the Old Fire Station!

Come & join us 🌈📖

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A collage of torn pink and blue paper with text in handwriting and typewriter-style font, alongside a photo of me (a white person with half-up long dark hair smiling into a mic holding a clipboard), and some magazines (green day on nme, George Michael on Smash Hits, Beyoncé in mizz, and Skin on keyring), with doodles of pritt stick, scissors, and a microphone. Plus the queer diary logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book). It says: Queer Diary, old fire station oxford, open mic, sign up to read your real teenage diary, old poetry, or fanfic Thu 11 sept, readings from 7:30. Zine-making: make your own mini-zine from real old teen magazines, sun 7 Sept, 2-4pm.
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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HASBIAN on tour 📣

Hasbian (noun)
- A former lesbian
- A comedy about growing up queer in Brighton during Section 28

Beth’s REAL teenage diary is brought to life in vivid hilarity with animated projections inspired by teen magazines, set to a soundtrack of y2k pop classics & indie angst anthems 💘
A promo photo of Beth against a pink backdrop, opening a blue notebook, with a scandalised expression - one eyebrow raised, mouth open in shocked amusement. Beth is a white person with dark hair in a high ponytail, wearing pink dungarees & a lilac tie-dye t-shirt. Above Beth, the title says “Hasbian” in a bold yellow font that recalls teen movies: Mean Girls, Clueless, etc. Surrounding Beth's head are cut-out photos including a Brighton bus, a bottle of cheap vodka, red Doc Marten boots, young Lindsay Lohan & Ashton Kutcher in heart-shaped frames, the back of 00s pop duo Tatu holding hands in school uniform. Snippets from reviews appear on cut-out strips, above and below Beth, and the dates are listed on a torn blue strip of paper, in a typewriter-style. Text reads: Hasbian “A unique insight into growing up queer in the 90s” ★★★★★ - A Young(ish) Perspective "An incredibly funny, charismatic performer" ★★★★ - West End With Me Worcester 27 Sept Worcester Theatres Durham 3 Oct Gala Theatre Oxford 10 Oct The Old Fire Station Norwich 12 Oct Norwich Theatre Basingstoke 16 Oct Proteus Theatre Exeter 18 Oct Exeter Phoenix Newcastle 23 Oct Alphabetti Theatre Salford 19 Nov New Adelphi Theatre
August 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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MANCHESTER! Get in touch ASAP to secure a spot on our mic 🌈📖

We're seeking a couple more readers to read something REAL from your teens, childhood, or coming-of-age era on Friday 👀

No performing experience necessary: just tell us what u got & we'll be in touch to confirm ur spot
A collage of 10 people laughing, cringing & reading into microphones from notebooks, paper, phones. 1 person is showing off a sketchbook drawing of the necklace from the titanic, another is wrapped in a string of various pride flags. In the middle is our logo: a rainbow bursting from an open book, surrounded by doodled yellow stars.
June 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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#QueerDiary in JULY ☀️

Tue 1 Zine-making
Kingswood Arts LDN

Thu 3 Zine-making
LGBTQ+ Centre LDN

Fri 4 Diary-reading
Social Refuge MCR

Fri 11 Diary-reading
The Actors BTN

Sat 26 Zine-making
Ruscote Community Centre, Banbury

Thu 31 Zine-making
Artfix Greenwich LDN

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Pink, purple & blue text in handwritten and typewriter fonts, on a paper background, listing dates as in this post, decorated with doodles of scissors, a microphone, a notebook, a heart with an arrow through it & our logo, a rainbow bursting from an open book
June 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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SOUTH EAST LDN 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Fancy coming to a night of social collaging with local queer folks? Cut up our stack of old teen magazines & reclaim them to make a zine for yr younger self ✂️

Starting Tuesday eve 6-8

📍 Kingswood Arts, SE21
A wall full of posters including a queer diary poster alongside local classes, markets, etc, with the word "community" painted above it.
June 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Submit a page for the QD zine 💌

We're putting together the next issue of #QueerDiary zine, as a record of this project & all our teenage lives. To have your page included, send it to us NOW 👇

[email protected]
A collage of handwriting and typewriter style text on: a torn pink card, a pink heart-shaped post-it, a star shaped yellow label. It says: "Queer Diary - now it's time to send us your zine page. Send us writing, drawing, collage" Surrounding the text, a rainbow of coloured pencils, pink scissors, and our logo which is a rainbow bursting from an open book inside a circle sticker.
March 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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This is not a drill!
Most Queer Diary upcoming events are sold out, with just a final few tix left for Wycombe on Feb 8th & Brighton on the 21st.
Book now:
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Listing's for our events showing: Queer Diary Jan 31 @ The Glitch Sold out with a waiting list. QD Zine-Making Feb 6 @ LGBTQ+ Centre sold out with a waiting list. QD Zine-Making Feb 8 @ Wycombe Arts Cente last few tix! Queer Diary Feb 21 @ The Actors Brighton Last few tix! Queer Diary Feb 27 @ Common Press Sold out with a waiting list
January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM