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UK LGBT EVENTS MAY 2017
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 2023 we listed 563 Events which are available to view in the Archive
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Rev. Richard Coles In Conversation with Nicolette Jones Bringing in the Sheaves
After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles has devoted himself to Christianity. He is now Vicar of Finedon, as well as a much loved...
After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles has devoted himself to Christianity. He is now Vicar of Finedon, as well as a much loved...
01 - 20
The Vaults - Miss Nightingale (until 20 May)
If you could die tomorrow, wouldn't you live today as if it were your last? 1942. A smoky, underground cabaret club opens in war-torn London. A saucy new singer is...
If you could die tomorrow, wouldn't you live today as if it were your last? 1942. A smoky, underground cabaret club opens in war-torn London. A saucy new singer is...
01 - 21
Tate Modern: Radical Eye: Modernist Photography From The Sir Elton John Collection (until 21 May)
The Radical Eye: Modernist photography from the Sir Elton John Collection opened to rave reviews on the 8th November 2016. To celebrate this ground-breaking exhibition, Sir Elton John and David...
The Radical Eye: Modernist photography from the Sir Elton John Collection opened to rave reviews on the 8th November 2016. To celebrate this ground-breaking exhibition, Sir Elton John and David...
01 - 29
Tate Britain: David Hockney Exhibition (until 29 May)
One of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century returns to Tate Britain for his most comprehensive exhibition yet. This exhibition gathers together an extensive selection...
One of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century returns to Tate Britain for his most comprehensive exhibition yet. This exhibition gathers together an extensive selection...
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Albert Kennedy Trust; Skydive We Dare You Through Out The Year, Nationwide
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless people we support. Take part in the ultimate daredevil event...
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless people we support. Take part in the ultimate daredevil event...
01 - 31
Above the Stag When Harry Met Barry (until 4 June)
Forget about Sally! Love comes like a whirlwind into the lives of the lonely. Romance for trendy clubber Spencer with TV chef Harry, and then bookshop girl Alice with hunky...
Forget about Sally! Love comes like a whirlwind into the lives of the lonely. Romance for trendy clubber Spencer with TV chef Harry, and then bookshop girl Alice with hunky...
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Albert Kennedy Trust; Skydive We Dare You Through Out The Year, Nationwide
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless people we support. Take part in the ultimate daredevil event...
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless people we support. Take part in the ultimate daredevil event...
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National Portrait Gallery Speak Its Name from I am the Love that dare not speak its name
2017 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. This display features seven portraits and quotations selected from more than 150...
2017 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. This display features seven portraits and quotations selected from more than 150...
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National Portrait Gallery: Howard Hodgkin - Absent Friends (until 18 June)
This is the first exhibition of portraits by Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), one of Britains greatest artists. Hodgkins paintings are characterised by rich colour, complex illusionistic space and sensuous brushwork. By...
This is the first exhibition of portraits by Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), one of Britains greatest artists. Hodgkins paintings are characterised by rich colour, complex illusionistic space and sensuous brushwork. By...
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Outcome Photgraphic Exhibiton Sheffield Institute of Arts
Over 100 portraits (and counting) of LGBT people with the attributes of their everyday life, and a photograph of themselves as a child. Photographer Tom Dingley's Outcome project captures people...
Over 100 portraits (and counting) of LGBT people with the attributes of their everyday life, and a photograph of themselves as a child. Photographer Tom Dingley's Outcome project captures people...
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