“Queers and those who do not fear, enter here…”

 QUAIR PEOPLE is a ground-breaking new 6-part one-hour drama, it’s Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City, meets 90s adolescent classic Empire Records… squeezed through a contemporary Glaswegian rainbow lens.

 It's September and Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act has been remodelled once again in parliament, the Conservative Westminster government continue to try and take away more rights for LGBT people and transphobia is at an all-time high – safe queer spaces are needed more than ever.  

 Glasgow East-End’s once famed queer bookshop Queen Books [closed during the pandemic] reopens with a new name: “Quair People”. With limited financial backing, but endless support from the local community: Deluca, René, Joey, Theresa and Emerald – QUAIR PEOPLE’s 5 staff members – create a sanctuary for the disenfranchised, a site of controversy for the ill-informed and there’s never a dull moment once those doors open. The series follows the trials and tribulations of this chosen family, their friends and customers – a collection of lovable weirdos with seldom seen stories of the contemporary queer experience.

In Season One the old guard must step aside to let the newbies [with all their rainbow letters] take the reins: the shop nearly closes multiple times, parents arrive unexpectedly and always leave at the wrong moment, homophobic hate destroys the community, transphobia threatens the existence of so many – and some don’t make it out alive… But the local drag bar is always good for a dance, happiness is always in a cuddle from someone you chose, and hope burns a powerful flame.

QUAIR PEOPLE is about family, community, identity and overcoming obstacles with humour. It’s showing a contemporary multicultural Glasgow never seen as vibrantly on screen before – messy, camp and battling its history, whilst forging ahead to a brighter future. 

For full details please email drew_taylor@hotmail.co.uk