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UK LGBT EVENTS OCTOBER 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 2025 we listed 418 Events which are available to view in the Archive

OCTOBER 2017 - 72 events (2026 - 214 events listed)
01 - 12
Gods Own Country - Nationwide (until 12 October)
Spring. Yorkshire. Isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker employed for the lambing...
01 - 14
Turkey @ The Hope Theatre
A tale of Love, Grief and Turkey Basting. Youre manipulative. Youre beautiful and manipulative but it wont last. Madeline wants a baby, so a baby she will have. It doesnt...
01 - 15
Bones @ The Kings Head Theatre
McDonalds, lager and a blow job on the way home. The suns shining and its the one day of the fortnight I got money in the bank. Today, I live...
01 - 15
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin @ The Other Palace (until 15 October)
From the creator and director of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder brings to life on stage the music and personal stories of Irving Berlin...
01 - 22
Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro @ The Other Palace
Award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder brings to life on stage the music and personal stories of Irving Berlin and Leonard Bernstein in two musical-plays, which will alternate at Londons...
01 - 22
Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro @ The Other Palace
Joe and Margaux Sharratt, the husband and wife team behind the Brixton hotspot Naughty Piglets, have opened their second restaurant The Other Naughty Piglet on the first floor of The...
01 - 28
Le Grand Mort @ Trafalgar Studios starring Julian Clary
Le Grand Mort Overview In his super stylish, sterilely beautiful Notting Hill kitchen, Michael is preparing dinner for two. As he meticulously cuts the vegetables with almost a surgeons precision...
01 - 29
National Portrait Gallery: Speak Its Name .. I am the Love that dare not speak its name (until 29 October)
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...
01 - 30
Derren Brown: Underground @ The London Playhouse
Mind reader, magician and possibly the closest our galaxy can boast to a Jedi Master! He is known for his appearances in television specials, stage productions, and British television programmes...
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01 - 31
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...
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  • 01 Apr – Rachel Maddow (1973–), American cable television host
  • 02 Apr – Linda Hunt (1945–), American actress
  • 03 Apr – Anne Lister (1791–1840), English landowner and diarist
  • 03 Apr – Cat Cora (1967–), American chef and TV personality
  • 06 Apr – Gale Wilhelm (1908–1991), American writer
  • 07 Apr – Janis Ian (1951–), American singer-songwriter and musician
  • 08 Apr – Roberta Cowell (1918–2011), British racing driver and WWII fighter pilot
  • 09 Apr – Cynthia Nixon (1966–), American actress
  • 09 Apr – Kristen Stewart (1990–), American actress
  • 10 Apr – Gro Hammerseng-Edin (1980–), Norwegian handball player
  • 12 Apr – Amy Ray (1964–), American singer-songwriter and member of Indigo Girls
  • 12 Apr – Magda Szubanski (1961–), Australian actress, comedian, and writer
  • 14 Apr – Da Brat (1974–), American rapper and actress
  • 14 Apr – Larissa França (1982–), Brazilian beach volleyball player
  • 15 Apr – Bessie Smith (1894–1937), American blues singer
  • 16 Apr – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984–), American fantasy and young adult literature author
  • 16 Apr – Dusty Springfield (1939–1999), English singer
  • 18 Apr – Alice Blinn (1889–1982), American educator, home efficiency expert, and magazine editor
  • 18 Apr – Maria Bello (1967–), American actress
  • 21 Apr – Jessica Clark (1985–), English actress, model, and video blog host
  • 23 Apr – Élisabeth de Gramont, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (1875–1954), French writer and aristocrat
  • 23 Apr – Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer and suffragist
  • 25 Apr – Anja Pärson (1981–), Swedish alpine skier, 2006 Olympic gold medallist in slalom
  • 26 Apr – Lily Parr (1905–1978), English professional women’s association football player
  • 26 Apr – Ma Rainey (1886–1939), American singer
  • 29 Apr – Garrison Starr (1975–), American singer-songwriter
  • 30 Apr – Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde

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