Our very favorite Queer Literary Reading Group is heading up North.  Of England that is.  To Manchester in fact.  If you are not a Brit and unsure of your geography, then we should tell you that this was where the original groundbreaking Queer as Folk TV series was set.

So Naked Boys Reading who are performing “Pulling Out” are a literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local beefcakes, bears, twinks, otters, butch femmes, sissy sluts, bois next door, and non-binary babes with an exhibitionist streak and lovers of naturism with a well-endowed library.   Well that.s how co-founder Dr Sharon Husbands describes them and she is a Total Top so we would never dare argue with her.

This particular evening is being curated queer playwright James Ley and is all about the power play and exits of pulling out.  Ley asks  #As Brexit “negotiations” reach a series of unsatisfying climaxes a number of questions are raised. Is the EU a power bottom? Can Scotland gain power by pulling out of the UK? And outside of politics Is pulling out the only power we have? Are ghosting and abandonment violent acts?”

Naked Boys Reading: Pulling Out
Curated by James Ley
@ Manchester Art Gallery 
Friday, 27 September 2019
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:00pm
£9 advance / £12 on the door

P.S. If you are one of those Queens who would panic about being out of their comfort zone if they had to go up North to Manchester ( AND WE KNOW WHO YoU ARE…)  you can trot along to another NBR Event at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch. Naked Boys Reading: Translations is to celebrate the Group’s 7th Anniversary and they are doing it by going bilingual.  Hmmm!

Thursday 26 September, 2019
Miranda at Ace Hotel
Shoreditch London