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UK LGBT EVENTS JUNE 2025
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
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Hay Festival: Rob Rinder
Rob Rinder takes us into the world of his latest crime novel, set in the glamorous world of art. At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academys celebration of...
Rob Rinder takes us into the world of his latest crime novel, set in the glamorous world of art. At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academys celebration of...
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Hay Festival; Jeanette Winterson .. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Marking 40 years of Jeanette Wintersons explosive first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Published when she was just 25, the book is a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer...
Marking 40 years of Jeanette Wintersons explosive first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Published when she was just 25, the book is a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer...
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Ellesmere Port Pride 2025
Ellesmere Port Pride takes place on Sunday, 1st June 2025. Ellesmere Port Pride is hosting a festival both indoors and outdoors, featuring acts, stalls, a children's zone, and food and...
Ellesmere Port Pride takes place on Sunday, 1st June 2025. Ellesmere Port Pride is hosting a festival both indoors and outdoors, featuring acts, stalls, a children's zone, and food and...
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Pop Off, Michelangelo! @ Underbelly Boulevard, London
The high-camp musical comedy that took Edinburgh Festival Fringe by storm makes its West End debut with a strictly limited season! POP OFF, MICHELANGELO! is the musical comedy about besties-turned-bitter...
The high-camp musical comedy that took Edinburgh Festival Fringe by storm makes its West End debut with a strictly limited season! POP OFF, MICHELANGELO! is the musical comedy about besties-turned-bitter...
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The Frogs @ Southwark Playhouse Borough
A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes. Freely adapted by Burt Shevelove and even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane with Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Can...
A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes. Freely adapted by Burt Shevelove and even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane with Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Can...
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Alan Turing: The Age of A1 @ Bletchley Park (until 2026)
The Age of AI New for 2025 - Learn about the history of AI and the pioneers in this technology, including Codebreakers Alan Turing, Donald Michie and Irving Jack Good...
The Age of AI New for 2025 - Learn about the history of AI and the pioneers in this technology, including Codebreakers Alan Turing, Donald Michie and Irving Jack Good...
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Cabaret Live At The Kit Kat Club @ Playhouse Theatre (until 2026)
Winning a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards including Best Musical Revival, this intimate and electrifying new production of CABARET is London's hottest ticket. In a time when the world is changing...
Winning a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards including Best Musical Revival, this intimate and electrifying new production of CABARET is London's hottest ticket. In a time when the world is changing...
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Kinky Boots - The Musical @ UK Tour - Nationwide (until July 2025)
The Broadway and West End phenomenon, Kinky Boots The Musical, is strutting out in a brand-new production starring Strictly Come Dancings Johannes Radebe and rising star Dan Partridge! This joy-filled...
The Broadway and West End phenomenon, Kinky Boots The Musical, is strutting out in a brand-new production starring Strictly Come Dancings Johannes Radebe and rising star Dan Partridge! This joy-filled...
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Leigh Bowery @ Tate Modern (until 31 Aug)
Leigh Bowerys short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond. An artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Bowery...
Leigh Bowerys short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond. An artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Bowery...
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Sabrage @ Lafayette London (until 06 July)
Dive into the hedonistic world of Sabrage Where the sleek and sophisticated mingle with bubble-laced hedonists. The world premire of Sabrage is set to create a frisson of seduction in...
Dive into the hedonistic world of Sabrage Where the sleek and sophisticated mingle with bubble-laced hedonists. The world premire of Sabrage is set to create a frisson of seduction in...
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