An extravaganza of queer joy and resistance! DJs, bar, live performances and the community runway.

Get ready as if it’s your birthday, because it is. Porty Pride Ball is celebrating its 5th Birthday. Cover your birthday suit in your best outfit, grab a party hat and dance!

Mystika Glamoor will host this evening extravaganza of queer joy and resistance. The Ball has been curated by none other than Edinburgh’s own club rat and butch poet JJ Fadaka (photo credit Nico Utuk).

This Year’s Theme:

It’s all about us this year, us as a community, us as an uncontrollable force of change, us as a loose collective of LGB…and never not the T!

We’ll have party hats and balloons, but we also welcome sashes, birthday badges and headbands, anything that shows your pride!

Refreshments

🍺 Bar by Porty Tap

Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic drinks available, including a limited edition Porty Pride beer.

Line Up

To celebrate our birthday, we’re welcoming back some of our favourite acts over the last 5 years and collaborating with some new faces.

Mystika Glamoor

Mystika Glamoor is the surrealist socialist socialite, the High Priestess of Edinburgh drag.

Greengiant | DJ Set

Serving up a tasty platter of global grooves, soulful sounds, disco and more from a fully vinyl set.

Simba | DJ Set

An eclectic, high-energy set, he moves fluidly between Miami bass, Jersey club, dancehall, Afro pop and Afro house, with girly pop and noughties nostalgia as the thread that ties it all together.

Simon Hot Mess | DJ Set

As far as we can tell, the world’s only out bisexual deaf DJ. A queer institution since 2010, playing fun blend of disco, house and 80s electropop. Expect to sweat!

Gemma Cairney | DJ Set

Local DJ, mama/writer/broadcaster/radio dj/art lover/polymath, ‘n advocate in devotion to queer culture!

Schedule

• Greengiant
• SIMBA
• Simon Hot Mess
• The runway – get ready to show yourself off.
• Gemma Cairney (Headline)

Accessibility

• Please be aware that this venue gets very hot.
• The dancefloor in Portobello Town Hall is Wheelchair Accessible
• Portobello Town Hall has step-free access, wheelchair accessible, accessible and gender-neutral bathrooms