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UK LGBT EVENTS JANUARY 2016

Events Calendar: Our monthly LGBT guide & listings of What's On & Where to Go !! - UK LGBT social, sporting, networking & business events available to view on line by Members/Visitors also emailed to our Members/Subscribers.

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In 2025 we listed 418 Events which are available to view in the Archive

JANUARY 2016 - 20 events (2026 - 162 events listed)
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Release Date for The Danish Girl
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne stars in an extraordinary and moving true-life love story. In 1920s Copenhagen, bohemian artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband Einar (Eddie Redmayne) to stand...
01 - 16
Above The Stag Theatre: Tinderella: Cinders Slips It In (26 November 16 January 2016)
Once upon a time, a slave boy called Cinders lived with his murderous stepmother and her daughters in a little landlocked kingdom. Now although this kingdom lacked democracy and had...
01 - 16
Derren Brown Miracle - Palace Theatre, London (11 November 2015 - 16 January 2016 then on UK Tour
Derren Brown returns to the Palace Theatre in his new show, Miracle, directed by Andy Nyman and Andrew OConnor. Tickets are on sale for what promises to be one of...
01 - 20
British Film Institute: Southbank "Carol"
Every moment is a masterpiece in Todd Haynes sumptuous and moving 1950s-set romantic drama, adapted from Patricia Highsmiths novel The Price of Salt. Manhattan department store assistant Therese (Mara) meets...
01 - 26
Science Museum: Cravings: Can Your Food Control You?
What drives your desires for the foods you love? Is it the colour of your spoon, the food your mum ate while pregnant, the trillions of bacteria that dine with...
01 - 31
Science Museum: Information Age Celebrate 200+ years of Communication/ Information Technology (Perm
The Information Age gallery celebrates more than 200 years of innovation in information and communication technologies. It's our biggest and most ambitious gallery to date. There are six zones in...
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Gays The Word Book Launch: Celebrate the launch of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
Celebrate the launch of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement Come and join Charlotte Cooper and HammerOn Press for the launch of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement at Gay's...
09
The Pink Singers: By Special Arrangement Cadogan Hall
The Pink Singers: By Special Arrangement celebrates over 30 years of musical development of Europes longest running LGBT choir, showcasing the diversity and talent of its members through their very...
10
London Gay Symphony Orchestra and Actually Gay Mens Chorus
A Carnival Of Music sets sail at Brighton Dome... A menagerie of lions, elephants and kangaroos will be let loose at Brighton Dome on Sunday 10 January, with cabaret star...
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Arosa Gay Ski Week: Switzerland
Today the Arosa Gay Ski Week is one of the biggest LGBT winter sports events in Europe. With more than 600 participants from over 30 countries our attendees had a...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...
  • 01 Jan – Martine Rothblatt (1954–), American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, business executive, & CEO of United Therapeutics
  • 02 Jan – M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935), American educator, linguist & women's suffragist
  • 04 Jan – Dot Jones (1964–), American actress & arm wrestler
  • 06 Jan – Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer, philosopher & activist
  • 06 Jan – Kate McKinnon (1984–), American actress & comedian
  • 06 Jan – Nancy Ruth (1942–), Canadian Senator
  • 08 Jan – Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), American heiress
  • 11 Jan – Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991), English actress, producer & director
  • 12 Jan – Edith Cooper (1862–1913), English poet
  • 12 Jan – Patsy Kelly (1910–1981), American actress
  • 13 Jan – Charlotte Charke (1713–1760), English actress, playwright, novelist & transvestite
  • 14 Jan – Holland Taylor (1943–), American actress
  • 19 Jan – Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), American novelist & short-story writer
  • 19 Jan – Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American rock singer-songwriter
  • 22 Jan – Elaine Noble (1944–), American politician & LGBT activist
  • 23 Jan – Luisa, Marquise Casati Stampa di Soncino (1881–1957), Italian aristocrat, muse & patron of the arts
  • 25 Jan – Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English writer
  • 25 Jan – Aya Kamikawa (1968–), Japanese politician & writer, first openly transgender politician in Japan
  • 26 Jan – Ellen DeGeneres (1958–), American actress & stand-up comedian
  • 28 Jan – Colette (1873–1954), French novelist
  • 28 Jan – Marnie McBean (1968–), Canadian rower, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist
  • 29 Jan – Gia Carangi (1960–1986), American model
  • 29 Jan – Sara Gilbert (1975–), American actress & talk show co-host
  • 31 Jan – Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968), American actress
  • 31 Jan – Portia de Rossi (1973–), Australian actress
  • 31 Jan – Patricia Velásquez (1971–), Venezuelan actress & model

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