Blackpool’s newest multi-artform festival, Queer Amusements, lit up the North-West from April to September 2024. A new short film from Tiktok Award nominee James Barnett (best known for his channel @makemeaoffer with parents Teresa and Michael), Queers in Blackpool, shines a light on the people who were involved, the town it took place in, and […]
Jake Daniels, the UK’s only male professional footballer to be publicly out, and the first since Justin Fashanu in 1990. says he is determined to be known as more than just ‘the gay footballer’. The Blackpool forward made his sexuality public in May 2022, but he has not played a competitive match for the since then, with his […]
Acclaimed dance theatre company Thick & Tight bring their best-of show, Tits & Teeth – a riotous night of dance, mime, drag, lip sync and satire, sending up and stripping down famous and notorious figures – to Blackpool Grand Theatre on 28 June as part of the brand-new Queer Amusements festival. Conjuring up apparitions of […]
A rainbow zebra crossing, which was unveiled in Blackpool to recognise LGBTQ+ communities, has been vandalised after just one day. Jane Hugo, a member of Blackpool Council, reflected on the incident, highlighting the sad reality of such negative sentiments but remained optimistic about the overall positive reception. “I just can’t get my head around it,” […]
A safe haven for Blackpool’s LGBTQ+ community
The LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender) International Powerlifting Championships (LGBT IPC) were held in Blackpool from July 19-21. Fifty athletes and a further hundred coaches, friends, family and spectators attended the event, making it the largest LGBT Powerlifting event of all time in regards to overall engagement.
The Marine Tavern took their annual pre-Easter trip to Blackpool from April 7-9 last month. On the hottest weekend of the year, nineteen customers and friends enjoyed the trip to Blackpool by mini bus, staying at Chaps Hotel on Cocker Street.
