Coventry and West Midlands Wolverhampton Pride announces headline artists Acts include Scott Mills, Baga Chipz and The Fizz By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Birmingham The Trans Tearoom comes to Birmingham this spring The community space for gender fluid, non-binary and trans people across the West Midlands will initially offer a weekly drop-in space on Wednesday afternoons, and their aim is to provide a range of different spaces online and in-person to support the community. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Birmingham Petition launched to protect Birmingham’s Chinatown and Gay Village A petition has been launched objecting to Lendlease and Smithfield development plans which ignores Chinatown and “provides a under-developed and limited pedestrian access to the LGBT quarter.” By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Birmingham POWER IN PRIDE: First look at line-up of Birmingham Pride 2023 Ahead of their upcoming Pride Festival – which will take place over the May Bank Holiday – Birmingham Pride have released the first acts on their line-up. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Arts Beverley Knight MBE nominated for an Olivier Award for her role in ‘Sylvia’ The English recording artist and musical actress – who also stars as a judge on the ITV series Starstuck – plays Emmeline Pankhurst in the Old Vic’s Sylvia, a role which she has reprised, having also played the historic feminist figure on the West End in 2018. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: ‘The Way Old Friends Do’ @ Birmingham Repertory Theatre With a sharply funny, high-camp, and dragged-up script, this production is full of laugh-out-loud moments woven alongside the heart-warming story of friendship, coming outs, and love. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Arts Fierce Festival’s artistic director Aaron Wright to step down After seven successful years, Aaron Wright, artistic director of Fierce Festival – a festival of international theatre, performance and experiences which takes place in and around Birmingham – is stepping down. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Birmingham Birmingham’s Boltz Nightclub could soon be demolished Boltz nightclub – a fetish club on Kent Street in Birmingham’s gay village – could be demolished to accommodate a new 15-storey apartment block By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
News High Court grants permission to appeal decision over trans waiting times Birmingham Pride’s Eva Echo has revealed that following the high court ruling in a case regarding NHS waiting times for transgender patients, an application to appeal the judgement has now been given permission. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Birmingham Birmingham LGBT+ Centre targeted with queerphobic graffiti During LGBT+ History Month, Birmingham’s inclusive hub, the LGBT centre, was vandalised with homophobic graffiti. Staff working at Birmingham LGBT Centre – a leading charity advocating for and support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer community in Birmingham and neighbouring authorities – By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Birmingham Birmingham vigil for Brianna Ghey attacked by LGBTQ+ hate Trans rights activist and Birmingham Pride’s Director of Innovation, Eva Echo, was being interviewed by I Am Birmingham when a group of teenage boys arrived at Hippodrome Square and began shouting slurs, homophobic, and transphobic abuse. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Arts Joe Lycett to host new series of live shows from Birmingham Following the success of Channel 4’s Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party, a new live show series with the working title of The Joe Lycett Live Show has been commissioned by the broadcaster. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
