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UK LGBTQ EVENTS CALENDAR 2024: OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

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Listings of LGBTQ social, sporting, networking & business events to view online by Members, Subscribers & Visitors. LGBTQ calendar & guide of What's On & Where to Go including: Theatre Productions, Exhibitions, Fundraising Events, Shows, Concerts, TV Recordings, Podcasts, Audiences With .., Pride Events +++ !! Events to keep you entertained all year around.

Fragile Beauty Photographs from the Sir Elton John & David Furnish Collection @ V&A (until Jan 2025) … Will Young UK Tour (until Nov 2024) ... The Graham Norton Show - Free Audience Tickets - London (until 07 Nov) … Stonewall Equality Dinner 2024 @ De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms … An Audience With Tracy Emin @ Cadogan Hall … I Am Harvey Milk In Concert @ Cadogan Hall … Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope @ The Other Palace … Exhibition: At Home with Tom of Finland @ Queer Britain (until 10 Nov) … Jarman: The Story of Derek Jarman @ The Other Palace … Workshop: Design The Interior of Your Dreams @ The Design Museum … Strictly Come Dancing is back! Free Audience Tickets @ Elstree Film Studio (until 14 Dec) … BFI: London Film Festival - LGBTQIA+ feature films - London Various Locations … An Evening With Mary Portas @ The Design Museum, London … Exhibition: Francis Bacon: Human Presence @ National Portrait Gallery (until Jan 2025) … Iris Prize LGBTQ Film Festival 2024 ... The Age of Consent 40 @ Southbank - Queen Elizabeth Hall … The Rocky Horror Show @ UK Tour ... LGBTQIA+ Tour @ V&A Museum (until Jan 2025) … Cabaret Live At The Kit Kat Club with Cara Delevingne @ Playhouse Theatre (until Feb 2025) … Pride Guided Tours @ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (until Apr 2025) … Cheltenham Literature Festival: Fragile Beauty - Elton John and David Furnish, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence - Alan Hollinghurst, Julian Clary, Richard Coles, Rupert Everett, Miriam Margolyes, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Just Good Manners with William Hanson & Anne Glenconner, Zandra Rhodes … Henley Literary Festival: Julian Clary, Rupert Everett, Jacqueline Wilson … London Literary Festival @ Southbank: Rupert Everett - The American No / Alan Hollingshurst - Our Evenings … Stratford-Upon-Avon Literary Festival: Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of Shakespeare with William Tosh, Rev Richard Coles - Murder Under The Mistletoe … Small Town Boys @ The Union Theatre … Shifters @ The Duke of York's Theatre … The Real Ones @ Bush Theatre ... Queenz - Drag Me to the Disco! @ UK Tour (until Mar 2025) ... Ginger Johnson Blows Off! @ Soho Theatre ... The Story of My Life @ Stage Door Theatre … Sophie Duker: But Daddy I Love Her @ Soho Theatre … Gay Pride & No Prejudice @ Union Theatre (until 02 Nov) … Dee Allum: Deadname @ Soho Theatre … Ania Magliano: Forgive Me, Father @ Soho Theatre … 0800 Cupid @ Soho Theatre … Two Plant Gaysians @ The Pleasance … How To Survive Your Mother @ Kings Head Theatre (until 24 Nov) … UK Prides in October: Bear Scot Fest 2024 Edinburgh St Austell Pride 2024


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  • 02 Oct– Annie Leibovitz (1949–), American portrait photographer
  • 03 Oct– Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress
  • 04 Oct – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942–), Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland, world's first openly gay head of government
  • 08 Oct – Kristanna Loken (1979–), American model & actress
  • 11 Oct – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), former First Lady of the USA & human rights activist
  • 15 Oct – Jenna Talackova, Canadian beauty pageant contestant, model & TV personality
  • 17 Oct – Laura Nyro (1947–1997), American songwriter, singer & pianist
  • 18 Oct – Brittney Griner (1990–), American basketball player
  • 18 Oct – Martina Navratilova (1956–), American tennis player
  • 22 Oct – Saffron Burrows (1972–), English actress
  • 23 Oct – Jean Acker (1893–1978), American actress
  • 23 Oct – Ireland Baldwin (1995–), American model
  • 23 Oct – Lilyan Tashman (1896–1934), American actress
  • 25 Oct – Chely Wright (1970–), American country singer-songwriter
  • 25 Oct – Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French artist, photographer & writer
  • 26 Oct – Liliane Maestrini (1987–), Brazilian beach volleyball player
  • 27 Oct – Katherine Bradley (1846–1914), English poet
  • 28 Oct – Caitlyn Jenner (1949–), American TV personality & Olympic Gold Medalist in Decathlon (1976)
  • 29 Oct – Michelle Brooke-Marciniak (1973–), American business executive, former WNBA basketball player
  • 29 Oct – Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958–), Canadian playwright, novelist, actress & broadcast journalist
  • 31 Oct – Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), American playwright, poet and novelist

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