LGBTQ+ News Queer campaigners launch share sale to open UK’s first community-run queer venue Queer campaigners Friends of the Joiners Arms have announced they are launching their community share offer in order to raise £100,000 and open a community-run LGBTQ+ venue in London this year. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
News Milestone fundraising concert, Proud and Loud, to celebrate 50 years of Pride at the Royal Albert Hall Pride In London has announced Calum Scott and Hayley Kiyoko will perform at the fundraising event on Saturday, June 4 By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Queer East Film Festival announces full programme for its third edition in May Queer East Film Festival, which shows rarely seen queer cinema from East and Southeast Asia, has announced the full programme for its third edition, which runs from May 18 to 29 in London. By Graham Robson • 6 min read
Fundraising News Hackney Brewery to re-release charity beer, Unicorn Rodeo A portion of the proceeds from Hackney Brewery’s Unicorn Rodeo beer will be donated to Switchboard, the LGBTQ+ helpline By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Pride Run 10k to return to London on Saturday, September 17 This year, Pride Run 10k has chosen Micro Rainbow International Foundation as selected charity. The charity works globally to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people achieve their full potential in life. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
News London Trans+ Pride to return on Saturday, July 9 Organisers of London Trans+ Pride have announced the event is set to make a return this year in the form of a protest march on Saturday, July 9, which will “celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries”. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Queer Britain to open its doors with ‘Welcome to Queer Britain’ exhibition on May 5 Go along and enjoy the space and a display of queer lives past and present, which will be shown until the summer. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Benefit for Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, with Tom Robinson and guests Musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson is to present an evening of songs and stories to benefit Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, at Jackson Lane Arts in London on Friday, March 11 from 7.30pm By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Out and About!: Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute Bishopsgate Institute will be staging a take-over of The Curve at the Barbican from February 28 – March 21 with an installation of objects, ephemera and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News London’s design community comes together to furnish new LGBTQ+ Community Centre In December last year, the long-awaited London LGBTQ+ Community Centre opened the doors to its pop-up premises, a stone’s throw from Tate Modern beside Blackfriars Station By Graham Robson • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Earl’s Court Pride 2022 – an event to celebrate the fabulous ‘Gay Hey Day’ decades of Earl’s Court Earl’s Court Pride 2022, an evening to celebrate the golden Earl’s Court ‘Gay Hey Days’ with film, fun, friendship, music, memories, drag queens and celebrities, is to take place at the Bolton Kensington, 326 Earls Court Road, London SW5 9BQ on Saturday, February 26 from 6pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Queer Britain secures first home! Queer Britain has secured its first physical home in Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, occupying part of a historic building owned by the charity, Art Fund. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
