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Stonewall 40th Anniversary Marked
The anniversary march sets off by zefrog There was a rainbow in the sky yesterday in NYC as the Stonewall 40th anniversary celebrations happily coincided with Pride in the US. It was an altogether...
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Pride London 2009
A week after London’s minimalist Stonewall celebrations, London’s Pride Parade took over town yesterday afternoon. There are grumbles that it’s been depoliticised and some were unhappy at the growing...
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London 2012 Same Sex Hand Holding Relay Walk
London 2012 Open Weekend saw the first heat of an unlikely new discipline: the same-sex hand holding relay walk. The relay, which aimed to promote more visibility for same-sex couples and quietly...
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Art Review: Gay Icons @ NPG
Joe Dallesandro by Paul Morrissey 1968, k.d.lang by Jill Furmanovsky 1992 & Joe Orton by Lewis Morley 1965 all courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery has gone a...
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London Remembers Tel Aviv Victims
This afternoon at the time when hundreds of people were also gathering in Tel Aviv, 30 to 40 people, mostly friends and friends of friends gathered by email and via facebook, came together in Soho...
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A Gay Old Saturday
Photo by steve.wilde You’d be forgiven to think that Gay Pride is already back in town, today. No less than three Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans events will be taking in various parts of the capital....
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Some Travel Card Wallets Are Gay. Get Your Own!
courtesy of Stonewall In February last year, Stonewall, the gay equality organisation, put vibrant posters saying “some people are gay, get over it” on 600 billboards around the country. The posters,...
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Preview: RVT/GMFA Sports Day in Vauxhall
courtesy GMFA To make the decision of what to do during the Bank Holiday even more complicated than it already is, we are throwing another option in the already rich mix. On Monday 31st, should you...
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Clubwatch: We Built This Speedwagon On A Prayer
As part of their ongoing new Friday night clubs, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern played host to a whirlwind of power ballads and soft rock a couple of months. This Friday, the meaningfully titled ‘We Built...
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The Fat Of The Land
Ah, harvest festivals, a time to dig out the corned beef from the back of the cupboard, shove it in a cardboard box along with some other unwanted groceries, and thrust it upon some unsuspecting OAP...
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In Pictures: Fat Of The Land Harvest Festival
We feared it might be a “wicker man meets village fete” affair but the Queer Chub Harvest Festival was a rip-roaring, face stuffing, carrot grabbing, vegetable monster of a success bursting at the...
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Vigil Against Hate Crimes
A silent candle-lit vigil will be taking place in Trafalgar Square on 30 October between 8 and 10pm. Although the event is about people registering their dislike of all forms of hate crime, it is...
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In Pictures: Vigil Against Hate Crime @ Trafalgar Square
Around 4000 people gathered last night in Trafalgar Square for a vigil prompted by the homophobic attack in that same square on Ian Baynham on 25 September. Ian died of his injuries a few weeks later....
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Last Chance To See: Public Property @ Trafalgar Studios
It’s an old story – a celebrity, er, pulls off in a lay-by – maybe loosening some garments to accommodate a painful stomach condition … or, in the case of high-profile newsreader Geoffrey Hammond...
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February is LGBT History Month
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) History Month, the Schools Out initiative to help fight homophobic bullying that had its pre-launch at the British Museum last November, is back this month for...
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Valentine’s Day Kiss In
by megapiksel Tapping the smoochy theme of tomorrow, a kiss-in is being organised to complement the planned No Vatican: London for a Secular Europe protest outside Westminster Cathedral. The kiss-in...
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Preview: Gay Africa
On Sunday the socially conscious will get a chance to have their little grey cells both stimulated and entertained at an event organised in partnership with English PEN. The evening, titled Gay...
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Review: Dirty White Boy @ Trafalgar Studios
Between 2006 and 2008, the ground floor of the building at the corner of Dean Street and Old Compton Street was occupied by the Dirty White Boy clothes shop. During that time, the owner of the shop,...
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Tory Candidate In Gay Demon Claims
The Tories really are shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to appealing to the non-homophobic vote. After Chris Grayling’s B&B comments comes an Observer report that Phillippa Stroud,...
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Comedy Interview: Scott Capurro
Behind American comic, Scott Capurro’s fearless and provocative brand of comedy lies a sharp, subtle wit and a warm heart. Not that the latter is obvious mind, as anyone in the front row will tell...
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Pride London 2010
On Saturday, loud music, dancing, singing, bright colours, bare flesh and whistles coming from over 130 walking groups and floats filled the streets of the West End and the eyes and ears of onlookers...
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Gay Couple “Removed” From A Soho Pub “For Kissing”
The John Snow Pub, Broadwick Street, Soho A popular Soho pub found itself facing accusations of homophobia today after a gay couple claimed they were asked to leave the premises for kissing. According...
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Preview: Gaywise Festival – GFest 2011
Visit the exhibition at Dreamspace GalleryThe cross-arts Gaywise Festival – GFest 2011 – returns on 7 November with visual artists, film makers, provocateurs, drag acts, lesbian hip hop artists,...
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A Look At LGBT Month And Pride House 2012
LGBT History Month had its pre-launch event at the Oval last week, revealing that in Olympic year, the focus of February’s activities will again be sport, particularly focusing on promoting the...
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Preview: Fringe! Gay Film Festival
Fringe! Gay Film Festival is back with an eclectic weekend of events between 12-15 April. This year’s programme includes more than 30 events from movies and workshops to wild parties at different East...
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Opera Review: Don Giovanni @ Heaven, Charing Cross
Production photo by Cleo Pettitt It’s a weekend night and we’re standing in Heaven cruising the hot bodies on stage and the trendy polysexual crowd below. The only differences from 1987 are that this...
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Concert Celebrates 21 Years Of The London Gay Men’s Chorus
The London Gay Men’s Chorus celebrates 21 “glorious years of harmony” with a big gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night, entitled A Band of Brothers. Alongside their famous arrangements of...
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In Pictures: World Pride In London 2012
World Pride was celebrated on the streets of central London on Saturday, despite last-minute cuts and timing changes. Crowds were thinner on Oxford Street than in previous years but the lack of floats...
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Film Review: Leave It On The Floor @ Leicester Square Theatre
Andre Meyers in Leave it on the FloorGay African-American musicals aren’t exactly ten a penny in cinemas, but for two weeks director Sheldon Larry’s Leave It on the Floor will be showing at the...
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Club Watch: Queers In Crisis @ Vogue Fabrics
Club night Queers in Crisis provides a window onto the flourishing, yet fragile avant-garde art scenes of the two most economically stricken European nations: Greece and Portugal. Performer and...
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Theatre Review: Sour Lips @ Ovalhouse
A real-life fantasy Remember the Gay Girl in Damascus? A blog with that suggestive name went viral during last year’s Arab Spring, only to be outed as a hoax — or should we say a fantasy — by its...
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Preview: 27th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
This year, BFI Southbank hosts the 27th Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, its annual celebration of LGBT cinema from around the world. Handily split into three sections – Hearts, Bodies and Minds – it...
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The Pansy Project: Because Homophobia Is Horrible
Faggot! Canary Wharf by Paul Harfleet “Accidental activist”, artist Paul Harfleet plants pansies at the sites of homophobic abuse. The Pansy Project started as a personal act, marking places where Paul...
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A Guide To London Pride Weekend
The head of the procession by Zefrog Will this weekend’s London Pride events see an improvement on the trainwreck that was World Pride 2012? Let’s hope so. This time last year, what should have been...
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10 First-Date Suggestions For Gay Londoners
So you’ve found a handsome fella out in the club or via Grindr/Tinder, but where do you go for that all-important first date? The Sun, Clapham Common The Sun does a mean Sunday roast and a tasty Bloody...
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Rock Meets Love As The Irrepressibles Take Shoreditch
London outfit The Irrepressibles headline Village Underground on 26 March, bringing their unique take on orchestral pop with an unabashed message of universal love to Shoreditch. Ignoring for a moment...
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London Short Fiction: First
Continuing our series of short stories set in, or influenced by, London. This month’s theme is ‘sexy, sensual, saucy London‘, which concludes today with a brewing romance in a gay club. First Even...
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Zanna Don’t! A Musical Fairy Tale
First things first — this vibrant, energetic musical is the campest, gayest and most glitteringly homosexual show you’re ever likely to see. In comparison, Zanna Don’t! makes the Wizard Of Oz, Sound...
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UK’s Top LGBT Choir Brings Harmony To Hackney
Hackney Empire plays host to London’s biggest LGBT choir this summer (19 July). The Pink Singers are one of the city’s finest collections of remarkable voices and they’ll be celebrating the best of...
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Straight Up Laughs At Guilt And Shame
Guilt & Shame is so utterly hilarious that it’s actually difficult to write about. As we’re reliving the action from Soho Theatre we’re laughing too much and losing our train of thought. The...
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