Glasgay! Festival

From 1993 to 2014 it was part of the diversity of Glasgow's cultural scene, an annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Arts Festival held usually in October/November, formerly organised by GALA Scotland Ltd. Cordelia Ditton, the co-director of Gay Sweatshop, founded Glasgay!

in response to the Section 28 legislation in 1988, which banned the promotion of homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle.

[1][2] Ditton partnered with Glasgow-based freelance arts administrator Dominic D'Angelo in 1991.

From 2007 to 2014 it enjoyed regular three-year funding agreements from the Scottish Arts Council and Creative Scotland.

Festival 1993–2014 was transferred to Glasgow University's Scottish Theatre Archive in early 2018.

In its history the festival has worked with many of the top gay and lesbian artists in the world.

Names such as Ian McKellen, Simon Fanshawe, Donna McPhail, Edwin Morgan, Jackie Kay, Rhona Cameron, Annie Sprinkle, Penny Arcade, Bette Bourne, Diamanda Galas, Neil Bartlett, Scott Capurro, Pam Ann, Four Poofs and a Piano, Lypsinka, Louise Welsh, Marc Almond, Alan Carr, Zoë Strachan, Stewart Laing, and John Waters are amongst the many others that have graced Glasgow's stages.