Leicestershire LGBTQ+ Centre, one of Britian’s longest running organisations for the community, celebrates a historic 50th anniversary in 2026.

Over thirty new Hate Crime Reporting points have been rolled out across Warwickshire as part of a project developed by equality charity EQuIP in partnership with Warwickshire’s Police and Crime Commis...

Birmingham Museums are set to celebrate Pride in STEM Day with an event at the Think Tank.

Transtoyou is a new digital healthcare platform, providing healthcare services to adults across the United Kingdom and several European countries, with gender-affirming care pathway to supports trans ...

Birmingham Literature Festival returns this Autumn with a line-up of literary events exploring a range of topics, themes, and genres. Among the bookish events programmed for 2027 are several that shin...

Send in the Clowns, a cabaret collective made up of performers: Fatt Butcher, Blü Romantic, Alanna Boden, and Dahliah Rivers, will return in 2027 with a new show. Following the success of ‘Queeny Todd...

Drag performer and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star, Divina De Campo, has been announced for an upcoming UK tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

Part of the multi-award-winning ‘Grandad’s Camper’ series, Harry Woodgate’s latest children’s picture book, Grandad’s Christmas is the third instalment in the collection.

Birmingham-born and raised actor, Bethany Antonia, has been announced as one of the celebrity dancers in 2026’s Strictly Come Dancing cast.

Shelter Birmingham has announced ‘Stride with Pride’; a daytime walk, raising awareness and funds for the charity, to take place on World Homelessness Day. The event that plans to map three cities in ...

In association with SHOUT Festival, The Pansy Project will be returning to Birmingham. The project, launched and run by artist, Paul Harfleet, plants pansies at the sites of homophobic and transphobic...

Professional footballer, current Aston Villa W.F.C. striker and former England Lioness player, Rachel Daly, and former Aston Villa teammate, Sutton Coldfield-born professional footballer, and current ...

The longest-running West End show and longest continuously-running play worldwide, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap embarks on its 75th anniversary tour across the UK and Ireland, with a stop at Birmin...

Birmingham-based Drag King, Blü Romantic AKA Gabe (32) is set to appear on the latest series of The Great British Bake Off.

Walsall Pride returned to the Arboretum extension on Saturday 29th August, and come rain or shine the show went on. Following extreme heat and drought, then thunder, lightning and heavy rain in the ar...

Our Story is a touring exhibition that brings together a gallery of portrait photographs, personal ephemera, and audio stories, to showcase the lives of trans and gender-diverse people in Nottinghamsh...

Congregational, a newly-composed choral service for the nightclub, from artist and vocalist, Fatt Butcher, is heading on tour across England. Opening in Manchester, the tour will then visit various ve...

New research by Birmingham City University (BCU) has found comedy can be a useful tool for improving mental wellbeing and resilience for Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community. A new study published in the psy...

Cole Porter’s High Society returns to stages in its first major UK revival in over a decade, playing at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre direct from a sell-out run in London’s West End.

Redditch Pride CIC, which runs the annual Pride event in the town, are set to host a summer Pride Fete. The family-friendly event which caters to all ages will be held at Arrow Valley Lake Boat House ...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is set to return to BBC iPlayer and BBC Three this autumn, and among the fresh new cast of drag queens are three performers hailing from the West Midlands. Staffordshire’s KY Kel...

Inspired by tarot, illustrator Sam Prentice-Jones made their writing début with the recently published graphic novel series Arcana: The Lost Heirs (2025), followed by Arcana: The Cursed Fate (2026). F...

Organisers for Warwickshire Pride, which is set to take place at the end of August, have announced that security measures have been increased ahead of this year’s event. In response to growing anti-LG...

Described by British Rowing as the greatest Paralympic rower, Lauren Rowles OBE, has been honoured by Birmingham City University at a ceremony today (30th July) at Symphony Hall.

Grindr the Opera: The Unauthorised Parody is a musical production for the modern world that puts the best-known gay hook-up app at the centre of an opera. Exploring gay dating and hook-up culture, thi...

A new exhibition in Birmingham will spotlight the remarkable story of gay, German-Jewish photographer, Lisel Haas, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and rebuilt her life and career in the city

The Karate Kid is a new musical based on the hit film of the same name. Bringing the 1984 movie to life on stage is a Tony Award-winning design team known for transforming cinematic moments.

Queens of the Crypt: Volume One is the début graphic novel from illustrator Dom&Ink.

Reform UK leader of West Northamptonshire Council, Mark Arnull has announced that no funding had been given to Northampton Pride in 2026, and no funding will be offered in the future.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a new production, staged at the Birmingham Rep, marking the first major UK revival of the show since 2012

Organisers of Kidderminster Pride have made the sad announcement that 2026’s event will not be going ahead as planned due to ‘impossible costs’. They add that this does not mean the complete disappear...

Pioneering painter and designer, Enid Marx is set to be honoured with a new exhibition at the Compton Verney.

Redditch Pride organisers have responded after Reform UK councillor Sue Eacock, the Mayor of Redditch, issued a public apology for a series of historical social media posts in which she appears to cri...

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returns to the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham this summer, and Wolverhampton-raised Laura Bird joins the cast in the dual roles of Usherette and Magenta.

Birmingham’s own Joe Lycett is set to return to stages with his first comedy tour in five years. The tour will play at two different Birmingham venues as well as dates across the Midlands

After lengthy campaigning from the Peter Tatchell Foundation, West Midlands Police’s acting Chief Constable has finally issued an apology to the LGBTQ+ community for historic mistreatment. WMP Acting ...

Coming direct from the West End to Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre, Mean Girls the musical is the hit production that won Best New Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards. Created by an award-winning team i...

The Cursed Fate is the spellbinding sequel to Sam Prentice-Jones’ The Lost Heirs, in his début graphic novel series, Arcana. Picking up immediately from where The Lost Heirs left off, this second work...

A Reform UK councillor has been reported to the police over comments made in an email that Warwickshire Pride have described as “transphobic”. The complaint over Warwickshire county councillor, Wayne ...

Content Warning: This article includes details of a suspected homophobic hate crime West Midlands Police have a charged a teenager (17) with attempted murder, and arrested a second teenage boy (al...

Dominus Von Vexo is House of Allure’s multi award-winning drag and burlesque producer, teacher and performer. This year, Dominus is taking on an exciting new challenge; producing the UK’s first Drag a...

Reform UK-led Staffordshire County Council say libraries under its jurisdiction will no longer feature Pride displays or host any pride-related activities reflecting a new 2026-2028 Libraries Strategy...

Set in the 1920s at Briarley School for Girls, Avery Curran’s Spoiled Milk begins suddenly and dramatically, with the violent demise of everyone’s favourite pupil, Violet, who falls to her death on th...

An exhibition of protest photography by I Am Royal Art is set to open in Coventry during Pride month. The exhibition, Human Focus, will run from 20th June until 29th July at LTB showrooms, Priory Visi...

Following a previous, hit UK tour, Frankie Goes to Bollywood, returns to stages promising to be ‘bigger, bolder, and bursting with Bollywood glamour.’ The production, which takes titular inspiration f...

BookKind is a new literary shop with a charitable heart, where 10% of every sale is donated to a good cause. Among their charitable partners is the LGBT Foundation; a charity that supports the health ...

Organisers of Warwickshire Pride have released their own statement in response to another from the Leader of Warwickshire County Council, Reform UK councillor George Finch. His latest statement relate...

The organisers of Coventry Pride say they’ve received a slew of online hate, including one person who threatened to drive a car into the festival crowd. In response, the organisers have had to allocat...

Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East, has tabled a motion to reject the EHRC code of practice. The code has been redrafted in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, which stated that the legal defini...