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Culture +
Community =

Action

2025/26 Tour

A unique meeting of culture and community for theatre-goers, queer people, and allies. Through the queer lens of Alexis Gregory’s play Smoke and panel discussions led by You Are Loved’s Marc Svensson, the tour explores themes of mental health, drug addiction, grief, survival, and the power of community.

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SMOKE

SMOKE is a hard-hitting, savagely funny, LGBTQ+ solo theatre piece from leading queer theatre-maker Alexis Gregory, whose critically acclaimed audience favourite solo piece ‘Riot Act’ toured the UK four times visiting the country’s leading theatres. Alexis’s work has been performed in the West End, across London and the UK, translated for international performance, and adapted for ‘digital theatre’ online.

Partnership

Visiting theatres, each performance of the stripped-back, raw, plot-driven SMOKE (60 mins) will be followed by a YAL panel discussion focused on the role community play in preventing deaths from suicide and drugs amongst gay, bi and queer men (45 mins) hosted by YAL founder Marc Svensson. The second part of the evening will start with a post-show Q&A with Alexis and director Campbell on SMOKE and the themes it shares with the mission of YAL. Representatives from local queer organisations will then be invited to an informal and intimate conversation on the stage, with questions and comments from the audience being encouraged and welcome.

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Get in touch

Do you know of a brilliant queer organisation that would be interested in partaking in our panel discussions? Do you want to attend one of our events, or simply want to find out more - please reach out to us.

+44 7914 358573

Launch Event - Nov 2024

We held our first launch & fundraising event at Arch Bar in Clapham, London, on Friday the 22nd of November, 2024. The venue was at capacity and the atmosphere was simply wonderful. We managed to raise £3k towards developing our services and had fantastic feedback from the attendees. 

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Our founder, Marc Svensson, did a speech about our mission and plans for 2025. Alexis Gregory performed a section of his latest solo play Smoke, which explores being a man, grief, addiction, and survival via a hard-hitting but savagely funny queer perspective. The night also included a panel discussion about the role community initiatives play in supporting and improving gay, bi, and queer mens mental health. Four brilliant and influential panel speakers shared their knowledge and experience: Owain Evans, founder of Big Gay Out, Jaron Soh, co-founder & CEO of Voda, Alvin Hansen, community director of Homoparody, and Alexis Gregory, playwright & performer.   

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Scroll down for a selection of images from the event. 

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