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LGBT History Month

Free Queer History Tours of the capital to explore the vast and complex history of LGBTQ+ life in London

Graham Robson February 12, 2024

Join tour guides London With a Local for a FREE Queer and LGBT+ History Tour of the capital, which explores the vast and complex history of LGBTQ+ life in London, with stories of iconic people and places who have shaped the city and community through the centuries. Weaving through the streets of London’s West End, […]

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LGBT History Month

The Linden Archives: an affectionate look back on the brash, thriving gay scene of the 1990s

Graham Robson February 9, 2024

Stuart Linden Rhodes established the Instagram account Linden Archives during the lockdowns of 2020-21, scanning and digitising hundreds of photographs – primarily as a way to preserve his reportage photography for All Points North and Gay Times magazines, images that had been unseen for thirty years. The archive has since gained a substantial following with […]

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Arts

REVIEW: ‘The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions’ @ Southbank Centre

January 26, 2024

This retelling and centring of queer history is a searing read of patriarchy and the audience buzzed as they left, entertained but unapologetically magically queered up by these faggots and their friends.

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LGBTQ+ News

Plans to reopen the iconic Black Cap in Camden are underway

Graham Robson January 15, 2024

forum+, which works to promote equality for LGBTQ+ people in Camden and Islington, has announced plans to reopen the iconic Black Cap in Camden, London are underway. The group, which met with the owners and the project team working to reopen the pub, has said discussions were “hugely exciting” and the vision for the reopened […]

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Sport

Liverpool and London join race to host Gay Games 2030

Graham Robson January 10, 2024

London and Liverpool have joined the race to host the Gay Games 2030, the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) has announced. Twenty-five cities on six continents have expressed interest in bidding by submitting an official response to the FGG’s Request for Information (RFI). The FGG will endeavour to maintain an “equitable, supportive, and transparent bidding […]

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LGBTQ+ News

VAULT, creators of VAULT Festival, an independent festival of live performance, announce fundraising event to raise funds for cutting edge new venue

Graham Robson January 9, 2024

VAULT – the creators of VAULT Festival, an independent festival of live performance for underrepresented artists – has announced that tickets for their first fundraising gala are now on sale. VAULT Gala: Light at the End of the Tunnel, will take place on Tuesday, March 19 in the Assembly Hall of the iconic Shoreditch Town Hall to raise funds towards the opening of VAULT’s new cutting edge central London venue which is due to open later this year. 

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HIV

Central and North London’s Sexual Health Services becomes first in the country to offer PrEP medication online

Graham Robson December 15, 2023

Central and North London‘s (CNWL) Sexual Health Services have become the first in the country to offer PrEP medication, which is taken by people who don’t have HIV to stop them contracting the virus, online. Existing patients who meet certain clinical guidelines and are residents in the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Haringey and Barnet can now apply for a repeat […]

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Transgender News

Trans and non-binary people needed for Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth installation

Graham Robson December 6, 2023

Teresa Margolles is an internationally renowned artist and will be casting 850 plaster casts from the faces of trans and non-binary people between Mexico and the UK. These casts will be placed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2024 as a show of resilience and humanity from trans and non- binary communities. Mexico is second (behind Brazil) […]

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LGBTQ+ News

Six men arrested after suspected homophobic hate crime in which a gay man was attacked with a plank of wood

Graham Robson November 23, 2023

Six men aged between 16 and 22 have been arrested after a suspected homophobic hate crime attack last month, in which a gay man was hit with a plank of wood. Callum Griggs, 23, was attacked by the gang while he was walking with his partner, Brad Balueta, who said the gang were standing outside a […]

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LGBTQ+ News

“Everyone has a right to travel without fear.” One in five LGBTQ+ people have experienced hate crime on London transport network in the past year

Graham Robson November 16, 2023

Out In London – LGBTQ+ people’s safety on the London transport network, a new survey conducted by LGBTQ+ anti-abuse charity Galop, on behalf of independent passenger watchdog London Travelwatch, has revealed the extent of abuse, harassment and violence faced by the LGBTQ+ community when travelling in and around the capital. Galop surveyed 600 LGBTQ+ people on […]

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