Vue Cinema is marking Pride Month with a curated line-up of queer films, rolling out titles across June that range from a new release to returning favourites. The season includes Fairyland, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Madfabulous, The Birdcage and Lesbian Space Princess.
For film fans searching what is on at vue cinema this month, the schedule starts to fill out on 3 June, when Portrait of a Lady on Fire returns to screen. Madfabulous follows on 5 June, The Birdcage returns to Vue’s Pride season on 6 June, and Lesbian Space Princess arrives on the big screen from 20 June. Fairyland, which is adapted from Alysia Abbott’s best-selling memoir and produced by Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola, is part of the same Pride Month programme.
The timing matters because Pride Month programming is often where cinemas signal what kind of audience they want to speak to beyond the usual blockbuster crowd. Vue is doing that plainly here, pairing a 1970s-set memoir adaptation with a critically acclaimed title, a fresh comedy and a cult favourite that still draws attention decades after its first run. Ian Chester, speaking for Vue, said the chain is committed to films that reflect the diversity of its audiences and is especially proud this Pride to highlight stories that celebrate and represent LGBTQ+ communities.
That celebratory framing sits neatly beside the films themselves, but one title in the line-up carries a different kind of energy. The Birdcage, a 90s cult classic now back for its 30th anniversary, is built around a false front maintained for a son’s meeting with his fiancée’s right-wing, moralistic parents. It is a comedy about performance and concealment as much as acceptance, which gives the Pride season an edge that is less polished than the marketing suggests and more recognisably human.
Vue is not just leaning on nostalgia here. The June slate stretches from a memoir drama to animation and cult comedy, and the company says it wants audiences to switch off and immerse themselves in stories with big emotions, deep connections and moments that stay with them long after the credits roll. What remains open is how widely the programme will travel beyond Edinburgh and the rest of the chain’s footprint, but the dates are set and the Pride offer is already clear: Vue wants this June to feel like a month for LGBTQ+ stories on the big screen, not a footnote to them.
