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A quick run down of some of the queer events happening in London in 2018.

A quick run down of some of the queer events happening in London in 2018.

A run-down of some of the best gay events happening in London in summer, autumn and winter 2018, from theatre and film, to exhibitions and parties.

The classic camp movie 9 to 5 is live and onstage as 9 to 5 The Musical hits the West End!

JJ Green brings his new musical A-Typical Rainbow to the Turbine Theatre this summer

V&A London presents a major retrospective of fashion enfant terrible Alexander McQueen

Gillian Anderson and Lily James star in the stage adaptation of the Bette Davis class

The King's Head Theatre in Islington presents new gay play All That, as part of their 2021 Queer Season

For one week only, experience the magic of Alyssa Edwards as she sashays her way into London's West End with Alyssa, Memoirs of a Queen!

Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical comes to the award-winning Menier Chocolate Factory in a new production starring Catherine Tate and Aaron Tveit.

A quick run down of some of the queer events happening in London this Autumn and early Winter 2017.

The Broadway hit musical BEAUTIFUL - The Carole King Musical comes to London.

New season of monologues around gay and LGBT themes to premiere at the Old Vic Theatre and on BBC Four this July

Flare is back as the British Film Institute celebrate LGBTQ+ film with its annual BFI Flare film festival

Gay events in London in 2020 and 2021

Based on the smash-hit movie, Billy Elliot The Musical is a dazzling theatrical experience.

The LGBTQ+ archives of the Bishopsgate Institute are a treasure trove of gay history

West End Theatre is running its annual Black Friday promotion, so grab a ticket bargain to over 40 great London Shows

A sexy, hilarious Christmas cabaret night at the Drayton Arms Theatre in West London.

Cult cabaret and circus troupe BRIEFS return to London's Southbank this Summer for more mayhem.

Brighton Pride is finally back on 6 and 7 August 2022

A free queer exhibition at the British Library, looking at 122 years of gay history.

The British Museum has opened a major new exhibition highlighting LGBTQ histories, experiences and lives.

Nicole Scherzinger stars in this major revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical classic CATS.

The spectacular, big-budget musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's brand new musical Cinderella is now playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London's West End.

COCK comes to the West End next year with Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey and Rocketman's Taron Egerton

Theatre / From 18 June 2021: Constellations returns to the West End, featuring four different casts including It's a Sin star Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey

Set in late 80's Soho, Cruise is a vibrant and intoxicating true story starring Jack Holden

Classic musical Damn Yankees is given a sexy spin at London's Landor Theatre.

Starring Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace.

The Royal Academy of Arts big summer blockbuster is David Hockney's latest collection - The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020.

Dubbed a "Dragatha Christie" murder mystery, Death Drop is a riotously entertaining evening of fabulous drag and heinous murder at the Garrick Theatre

A major photography exhibition at the Royal Academy highlights the work of actor Dennis Hopper.

Tamzin Outhwaite, Samantha Spiro and Jenna Russell star in smash-hit comedy Di and Viv and Rose at the Vaudeville Theatre.

A new production of Diary of a Somebody, based on Joe Orton's diaries, at Seven Dials Playhouse in London.

Drag entertainment company TuckShop are back in the West End this festive season for another round of mega-camp all-drag panto!

Above the Stag queer theatre in Vauxhall has outdone itself this year, with fabulous LGBTQ+ panto Dick Whittington: A New Dick in Town.

Glamorous musical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Savoy Theatre.

July is Disability Pride Month - in the UK and around the world

 Luke Bayer stars in DIVA: Live From Hell at the Turbine Theatre.

Re-scheduled from March, the mega festival of all things DRAG is finally back, with live performances a-plenty plus a drag market, comedy stage and more.

The ever fabulous and award-winning Yummy ensemble are back in London.

Dreamgirls the musical is finally here - and it has been worth the wait

Ab Fab's Jane Horrocks stars in the hilarious comedy East is East, based on the hit movie.

Kristin Scott Thomas stars in Ian Ricksons' five-star revival of Electra at the Old Vic.

A riotous night out full of fabulous songs and drag!

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's epic musical EVITA returns to London.

A massive new retrospective of David Hockney's body of work, staged at Tate Britain

Tate Britiain stages an impressive exhibition exploring queer British art.

Fetish Week London is back this year, running from 9 to 17 July 2022, after a 2 year absence.

Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans and Michael Urie star in new movie, Swan Song from Todd Stephens

Go see Kemah Bob live, recording their new podcast FOC IT UP with Kemah Bob at 21 Soho

The cult Broadway show hits London ripping the West End's best loved musicals to shreds!

Exciting new Queer play Foxes returns to London's Seven Dials Playhouse

This major new exhibition, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy, focuses on Bacon’s life-long fascination with animals

What's on this Christmas in London, featuring the best gay-themed events for December 2014

Gay events in London this winter and spring 2019 including theatre and concerts

Gay events in London this winter 2019 and 2020 including theatre and concerts including 9 to 5 The Musical, Sink the Pink, Cinderella, and Winter Pride

Gay events in London in 2020 including theatre, concerts and exhibitions, from Mary Quant to Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Gay events in London in 2020 and 2021

Gay events in London this January and February 2019 including theatre and concerts

Gay events in London this spring and summer 2019 including theatre and concerts, from Christian Dior to the Pink Singers and London's Gay Men's Chorus

Above the Stag gay theatre in South London premieres it's brand new musical "He Shoots! He Scores!" this Summer.

Above the Stag gay theatre in South London premieres it's new revival of moving gay play "Holding the Man"

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Prepare to be well and truly scared out of your wits at Ghost Stories.

Ginger Johnson returns to London's Pleasance Theatre for riotous new show, Good Clean Fun.

Fast and furious, Great Britain is the hilarious new satire that is a riot of razor-sharp wit.

Homotash are back! Finally! And they are planning a very chilled out roof top evening on Sunday 8 August at Egg London.

A new solo play called Jarman is debuting at the Greenwich Theatre this month, celebrating Derek Jarman.

Smash-hit Broadway show Jersey Boys continues to pack them in at the Piccadilly Theatre in London.

The fabulously talented Jonny Woo is doing Battersea this Christmas, with his All Star Christmas Cabaret.

The award-winning King's Head Theatre in North London is hosting a season of Queer plays for 2017, with work from playwrights including Jonathan Harvey, Kevin Elyot and Patrick Wilde.

The award-winning Broadway musical - and now a smash-hit in London

The original, trailblazing, genre-defining cabaret show La Clique is back in London

Details of the 2014 London Gay Parade and Gay Pride event

Details of the 2017 London Gay Parade and Gay Pride event

Pride Events in London this June and July for Pride Month

London Trans+ Pride is happening this year on Saturday 9 July 2022, at Wellington Arch near Hyde Park in London.

LXZEvents are taking over swanky Libertine by Chinawhite for a queer party of DREAMS

Made in Dagenham is the brand new musical based on the smash-hit British movie and starring Gemma Arterton.

Broadway musical Memphis opens at London's Shaftesbury Theatre starring Beverly Knight.

After last year’s cancellation, the Mighty Hoopla is getting back on track for another round of 7 stages of pop-tastic music.

Mighty Hoopla is back in 2022, with more pop-tastic music in Brockwell Park on 3 and 4 June 2022

The spectacular, epic production of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre in London.

Award-winning play Moment of Grace returns to London, telling the powerful story of the moment Princess Diana famously shook hands with an AIDS patient.

Theatre / From 17 June 2021: West End musicals performer Rob Madge writes and stars in this one-man show at the Turbine Theatre this summer, which celebrates the joy and chaos of raising a queer child.

Festival / 25 April 2021: Virtual this year because of Covid, but still promising students everywhere a fun festival of interviews, panels, club nights, performances and more.

National Theatre to run LGBT A series of LGBT+ rehearsed readings, exhibition directed by Stephen Daldry, Tarell Alvin McCraney Polly Stenham.

A quick line-up of gay events happening in London this New Year's Eve 2018

Noël Coward: Art & Style is a glamorous new exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, celebrating the style and glamour of Coward.

DJ Pagano is producing another of his now infamous and inclusive parties, with OFF London Reawakening at The Steel Yard

ONCE is the joyous musical starring Ronan Keating* at the Phoenix Theatre

Out and About!: Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute is a free event coming to The Curve space in the Barbican this February and March.

London hosts its first ever gay Oktoberfest event this October near the O2.

The Pleasance Theatre serves up another helping of LGBTQ+ plays, musicals and camp horror for History Month

Pride at the Palace is a special benefit concert which brings together the West End's LGBTQIA+ performers and Queer stars to celebrate Pride.

Festival / 11 September 2021: London’s biggest annual LGBTQ+ festival is back! The Pride in London organisation has announced the 2021 date – 11 September – based on latest UK government guidelines.

London’s biggest annual LGBTQ+ festival is set to return in 2022 on Saturday 2 July, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK

Gay events in London in 2020 including Pride Month

Queer Earth and Liquid Matters brings together artists, writers, filmmakers, sound and architecture practitioners to explore decolonial and queer ecologies.

Queer East is the annual LGBTQ+ film festival that showcases rarely-seen queer cinema from East and Southeast Asia

An event about how LGBTQ+ people have been affected by the war in Ukraine

Qw’re is heading home to Deptford to celebrate its first birthday – with a fabulous event Visual arts show, cabaret, big party and general queer joy and celebration is to be had – 10 September from 7pm.

Roast at Electrowerkz

News on the exciting new production of Shakespeare in Love at the Noel Coward Theatre in London

The Show of the month is Shakespeare in Love - now playing at the Noel Coward Theatre

Sink the Pink is throwing one final queer party, with its Farewell Ball on 15 April 2022 at Printworks London

London Gay Men's Chorus celebrate Stephen Sondheim at Cadogan Hall this April

A moving revival of Charles Dyer's 1960s play at the Southwark Playhouse starring Paul Rider and John Sackville

See explosive dance and music show STOMP at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.

Following an acclaimed Broadway run, the hilarious Straight White Men arrives at Southwark Playhouse for four weeks only

Hit The Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon gets a well-deserved West End transfer

The theatrical event of the year as Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel come together for Sweeney Todd in London

Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller is turned into an hilarious romp in this award-winning comedy

Whitney Houston musical The Bodyguard has a new star as Alexandra Burke makes her West End debut in London

Matthew Bourne's extraordinary dance show The Car Man gets a spectacular new production at the Royal Albert Hall this June 2022

The City of Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Street, London, W1H 7AF | Gay London

The Commitments is a riotous, soul-filled musical night at the theatre

Ben Kavanagh’s timely play about conversion therapy gets a new revival at Above The Stag, directed by Gene David Kirk.

A new play explores the life of Brian Epstein - the man behind the world's most successful pop group, the Beatles.

The George & Dragon (Shoreditch), 2 Hackney Road, London, E2 7NS

Epic, award-winning new gay play The Inheritance about the lives of multiple generations of New Yorkers

The Joiner's Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, London E2 7QL | Gay London

Iman Qureshi's play The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs comes to Soho Theatre for a strictly limited season

TV's Outlander star John Bell is making his London theatre debut in the revival of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake at the New Wimbledon Theatre.

Larry Kramer's ground-breaking play The Normal Heart is to open at the National Theatre starring Ben Daniels.

Queercircle hosts its first archive exhibition this June - called The Queens' Jubilee

Kander & Ebb's acclaimed musical The Scottsboro Boys comes to London directed by Susan Stroman

The Shadow Lounge, 5 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0RF | Gay London

Spectacular show celebrating the King of Pop - Michael Jackson

London drag performer Topsie Redfern brings Topsie Redfern's Crystal Balls to the Two Brewers this July.

UK Black Pride is back as a live event for 2022, running on 14 August 2022 at Queen Elizabeth Park in East London

The smash-hit Broadway show makes it to London in this FIVE STAR hit production

The brand new Queer Britain Museum opens on 5 May 2022, and the first exhibition is Welcome to Queer Britain.

The hottest night in the West End is back as WEST END BARES hits London.

London Theatre's charity night West End Bares is back for 2017. This sizzling event sees the West End's hottest stars perform for one night only - all in aid of raising money for HIV and AIDS projects.

Check out what's on at this weekend's London Gay Pride 2014, including the Parade and performers including Conchita Wurst

Check out what's on at this weekend's Out on the Dock 2014

A spectacular Christmas treat as Irving Berlin's White Christmas comes to the Dominion Theatre in London.

Pedro Almodóvar’s camp, cult movie classic gets a musical makeover in London starring Tamsin Greig.

The grand opening of new London gay bar and club Zodiac is taking place on 5 and 6 November 2021