2018 Gay Events Calendar – Summer 2018
A quick run down of some of the queer events happening in London in 2018.
An archive of past events in London, including queer and LGBTQ+ events, and exhibitions and events that have now closed
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!
V&A London presents a major retrospective of fashion enfant terrible Alexander McQueen
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!
A new production of Julian Mitchell’s gay classic Another Country is returning to London. The play was turned into a movie starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth and has become a gay classic for its career-defining performance by Everett as a gay public school boy in love with the blond and gorgeous Harcourt (played in …
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
London’s biggest queer film festival is back in 2021. Yes, okay, it still means having to huddle over our TV’s like in 2020 to see some of the best LGBTQI+ cinema around; and being all together in the dark was always going to be a better scenario. But this time the BFI folks have had …
Flare is back as the British Film Institute celebrate LGBTQ+ film with its annual BFI Flare film festival
Based on the smash-hit movie, Billy Elliot The Musical is a dazzling theatrical experience.
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.
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.
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
Theatre / From 18 May 2021: Set in late 80’s Soho, Cruise promises to be a vibrant and intoxicating true story about Michael Spencer’s last night on earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The cult Broadway show hits London ripping the West End’s best loved musicals to shreds!
This major new exhibition, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy, focuses on Bacon’s life-long fascination with animals
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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
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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.
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.
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.
The spectacular, epic production of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre in London.
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.
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.
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
The Commitments is a riotous, soul-filled musical night at the theatre