LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music

Jack Holden delivers a powerhouse one-man show about the hedonism, joy and tragedy of the 80s scene

A new British TV drama looks at the lives of gay men in London at the very start of the AIDS crisis — back when no one wanted to stop the party, and no one thought the virus could touch them.

Author Darryl W. Bullock’s upcoming book, The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties (out February 25 from Omnibus Press), traces not only the lives and careers of men like agent and producer Larry Parnes, manager Brian Epstein, and producer Joe Meek, but also weaves the stories of these me

The comic hosts an inclusive, intelligent podcast about queer lives. Plus: a double helping of quarantine comedy from duos including French and Saunders

"The Inheritance", a play about the generation after the peak of the AIDS crisis, won best director and best actor

In this day and age, it's crucial that independent film push the visibility of minorities forward. It is especially true for queer film.

Fuelled by Mussolini's obsession with maintaining a pure and healthy race, known and suspected homosexuals were rounded up and sentenced to exile on islan

Another day, another reason why Jade Thirlwall is literally the best person.

International theatre and TV star John Barrowman MBE returns to perform in London in Seth Rudetsky's Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre concert series for 3 intimate performances produced by Mark Cortale.

Like the LGBTQ+ community, their soundtrack is vast and diverse. Join Centre Stage London as they present a selection of music celebrating LGBTQ History Month, community and love in all its forms. From dance classics from big-voiced divas to soul searching slow jams that mirror struggles with self-acceptance and social rejection. Centre Stage London is proud of our LGBTQI members and the connection we have with this vibrant community and is excited to celebrate a message of hope, acceptance, activism and love in Love Happens Here- An LGBTQI Cabaret.

This three-hander by the award-winning dramatist Australian playwright, Tommy Murphy, arrives in the West End, having had a successful run at the King's Head Theatre in Islington. Catching up with it now, I'm glad to vouch that Adam Spreadbury-Maher's beautifully cast production well deserves this transfer. The piece is set in Sydney's King's Cross area (roughly equivalent to Soho) where the sixteen year old Shane, in flight from his rural hometown of Goulburn and lying about his age, has fetched up and secured himself a job in a bottlo (off-license).

Callisto: a queer epic is a swirling constellation of remarkable queer stories. In London, 1680, opera star Arabella Hunt has secretly entered into the first recorded gay marriage in UK history. In Worcester, 1936, Alan Turing pays one final visit to Isobel Morcom, mother of his lost first love, Christopher. In the San Fernando Valley, 1979, Tammy Frazer arrives at Callisto Pornographic Studios, searching for the love of her life. And on the Moon, 2223, Lorn is building a paradise to sleep in, but Cal, his A.I. companion, is determined to keep him awake.

Safe is my verbatim theatre piece, created entirely, word for word, out of my interviews with four homeless and at risk LGBT youth, and via the Albert Kennedy Trust, a charity helping and supporting such young people. Previously performed at Soho Theatre for the Pride in London Arts Festival, at London Theatre Workshop in the City and on September 28 and 29, presented as part of Norwich Theatre Royal’s season exploring gender and sexuality; Creative Matters.

With opposition to transgender issues regularly expressed by mainstream British figures, the country’s trans comedians are often just trying to assert their humanity.

Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results. Comedian, Harry Wright tests out the makings of their debut show, Smalltown Boy. Harry treats us to insightful observations with a youthful and exciting voice.

It is no exaggeration to say that discovering LGBT+ literature in 1970s Ireland saved me.

Howard Brenton’s play outraged morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, but her failed lawsuit brought an end to her courtroom crusadaes

When Desiree Akhavan first dreamt up The Bisexual – a comedy-drama series about a lesbian who realises she’s also attracted to men – she pitched the idea to just about every network in LA. It didn’t go well. One told her that they already had Transparent, a show full to the brim with queer people, and thus had no need for another. The next said they already had a female, brown-skinned lead in The Mindy Project (never mind that Akhavan is Iranian-American, and Mindy Kaling is Indian-American). And on it went.

For Gay Pride Month, Billboard asked numerous pop culture luminaries to write 'love letters' to the LGBTQ community.

Matthew Lopez’s sold-out two-part play at the Young Vic will move to the Noël Coward Theatre in September

“The Inheritance" is a vast, imperfect and unweildy masterpiece that unpicks queer politics and neoliberal economics anew.

Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage explores what can happen when women of all kinds reject the categorisations so often thrust upon them

Louise Jameson Nigel Fairs write and star in an Intimate and emotionally engaging study of an unlikely friendship

Matt Evers has come out as gay after he realised his sexuality while watching his uncle die from an AIDs-related illness over 20 years ago.

In “Balancing Acts,” Nicholas Hytner remembers his time at the National Theatre in London.